Ingemar Stenmark

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Ingemar Stenmark Alpine skiing
Ingemar Stenmark, June 2014-P6170012-1.jpg
Ingemar Stenmark 2014
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 18th March 1956 (age 64)
place of birth Joesjö , Sweden
size 181 cm
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
super-G , combination
status resigned
End of career March 9, 1989
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 5 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 Giant slalom
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 Giant slalom
gold Lake Placid 1980 slalom
gold Schladming 1982 slalom
silver Schladming 1982 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
gold Jasná 1974 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 86
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1975/76 , 1976/77 ,
1977/78 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1974/75 , 1975/76,
1977/78, 1978/79 ,
1979/80 , 1980/81 , 1983/84 )
 Slalom World Cup 1. (1974/75, 1975/76,
1976/77, 1977/78, 1978/79,
1979/80, 1980/81, 1982/83 )
 Combination World Cup 15. (1980/81)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 46 13 13
 slalom 40 29 12
 combination 0 0 1
 Parallel races 0 1 0
 

Ingemar Stenmark (born March 18, 1956 in Joesjö near Tärnaby ) is a former Swedish ski racer . He is a two-time Olympic champion , five-time world champion and has won the overall World Cup three times . He was also able to win the giant slalom and eight slalom disciplines and is the record winner with 46 giant slalom World Cup victories and 40 slalom victories. With a total of 86 World Cup victories and a total of 155 podium places, which he achieved in his active time from 1973 to 1989, he clearly leads the FIS statistics and is thus one of the most successful alpine ski racers since the introduction of the World Cup in 1967.

Career

Stenmark first appeared in the World Cup statistics on December 8, 1973 when he finished 46th in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère. He won the overall World Cup three times , although he almost never competed in downhill skiing . On September 15, 1979, he had a hard fall during downhill training in Schnalstal, which put an end to his contemplation of starting in this discipline for the time being. At that time he first came to the Innsbruck University Clinic, and the attending physician Russe put on him a plaster of paris breast shield, with the media puzzling whether it was just a precautionary measure or more.
He only drove down the legendary Streif once to score points in the combination . It was on January 17, 1981, when he finished 34th, 10.72 seconds behind winner Steve Podborski . In his time he was so outstanding that the slalom and giant slalom successes alone were enough to win the overall World Cup - but at that time only slalom, giant slalom and downhill races as well as a few combinations were counted for the World Cup, the Super-G competition came only later, so specialized downhill skiers had very little chance of winning the overall World Cup (see Franz Klammer 1974/75). With regard to Super-G, Stenmark rarely competed; he played the first on December 22, 1982 in Madonna di Campiglio, where he only finished 74th. But he reached two World Cup points (on February 9, 1983 with rank 11 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in the same place with rank 5 on January 29, 1984).

Despite his 86 race victories, Stenmark "only" achieved three overall victories in the World Cup, because up to and including 1986/87 (basically) only the three, later five best results in each discipline were included in the rating, so that he from 1978/79 despite sufficient victories and placements, could not receive another "large crystal". His various competitors also achieved top positions in the slaloms and giant slaloms and also got them in the descents and combinations (and later also Super-Gs). - His last overall victory in 1977/78 was practically halfway through the season, when he had already reached his maximum of 150 points with his victory in the Zwiesel slalom on January 9, 1978 (given his absence in the descents) while the runner-up Phil Mahre was listed with 72 points at this point and ultimately (still in second place) came in with 116 points.

One of his greatest successes was the two gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . He could not repeat this success because he was not allowed to participate in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo because of his professional license issued on March 21, 1980 .

Other milestones:

Although Stenmark made it into the World Cup for the first time on December 16, 1973 in the giant slalom in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , he only became known to an even wider audience at the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz , when he finished 9th in the giant slalom (February 5, 1974 ).
He achieved his first podium in the World Cup with third place in the giant slalom in Voss on March 2, 1974. The first World Cup victory , the slalom of Madonna di Campiglio on December 17, 1974, he caught up from 22nd place after the first run the winners podium drove.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck he won the giant slalom bronze medal from rank 8 in the first run (February 9th and 10th). It should be noted that Stenmark was eliminated in the final special slalom (February 14th).

After his double gold at the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won gold again in slalom four years later in Schladming, but was surprisingly beaten by Steve Mahre a few days earlier in the giant slalom (February 3, 1982).

Because of the changes in the regulations that had meanwhile been made, the Swede was allowed to participate in the 1988 Winter Olympics again (official approval by the Executive Council of the IOC , which also approved Marc Girardelli and 16 other athletes, took place on December 10, 1987) he finished 5th in the slalom on February 27th - after rank 11 after the first run. His great career ended with the final in Shigakogen, Japan, with 4th place in giant slalom (March 9, 1989). Shortly before that, he had celebrated his last career victory with first place in the giant slalom in Aspen (February 19, 1989).

Stenmark also set great marks by streaking victories and achieving unprecedented record leads in both slalom and giant slalom: 3.16 s in slalom (January 17, 1982 in Kitzbühel ), and 4.06 s in giant slalom (February 4 1979 in Jasná ).

technology

Stenmark was an exceptional athlete. He drove very elegantly and had hardly any opponents in his prime due to his unique technique. At the beginning of his career, Gustav Thöni , Heini Hemmi in the giant slalom in 1976/77 and Phil Mahre in the early 1980s were considered serious opponents . With the introduction of tilt poles in slalom at the beginning of the 1980s, however, Stenmark lost its superiority in this discipline, as drivers with a more aggressive driving style like Marc Girardelli had an advantage with the new poles .

In addition to excellent body control and an extremely pronounced, intuitive ski and snow feeling, he was characterized by a phenomenal balance. Therefore, in the many ski races he competed with confidence, he was almost never in danger of falling or actually falling. Stenmark already trained this ability in his childhood in northern Sweden by doing acrobatic gymnastics on a rope stretched between two trees to train his sense of balance. The South Tyrolean ski expert Hermann Nogler was the first to recognize the enormous potential of the young Swedish talent and in the following years became Stenmark's trainer and mentor.

personality

Ingemar Stenmark was an athlete of great fairness and was characterized by a high sporting ethos. This is proven by the following example: When Stenmark appeared as a Swedish nobody in the alpine ski circus, he received no support from the renowned ski companies, because they associated Nordic skiing with Sweden and did not know what to do with a Swedish alpine skier. Stenmark only found a supplier in the relatively unknown Yugoslav company Elan . As a thank you, Stenmark remained loyal to this company from the beginning to the end of his unparalleled career and competed in all of his races exclusively on Elan skis, although he received offers from the other companies worth millions after he rose to become a superstar. Stenmark remained a modest athlete who hated mammonistic starry airs. Last but not least, these characteristics are the reason why Stenmark is still not only the sport idol of alpine skiing, but also a general role model for young people interested in sport - especially in Sweden.

Outward expression of his character was his legendary, deliberately cultivated monosyllabic in interviews, which should scare off the guild of sports reporters. Therefore he limited himself mostly to succinct, exclusively factual answers. Only towards the end of his career did he get more out of himself, sometimes flashing his humor through one or the other bon mot in conversation. It was in Stenmark's nature to express his personality through actions rather than words. This constant understatement made Stenmark likeable and popular in wide circles, including non-sporting circles. In the ski circus of that time, the monosyllabic Stenmark looked like a foreign body. Björn Borg , who was acting at the same time , was celebrated as a star in the Swedish mass media and adored by the public, but Stenmark was loved as a hero .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1973/74 12. 62 6th 37 6th 51 - -
1974/75 2. 245 1. 115 1. 110 - -
1975/76 1. 249 1. 88 1. 125 - -
1976/77 1. 339 2. 115 1. 125 - -
1977/78 1. 150 1. 120 1. 115 - -
1978/79 5. 150 1. 125 1. 119 - -
1979/80 2. 200 1. 125 1. 125 - -
1980/81 2. 260 1. 125 1. 120 15th 15th
1981/82 2. 211 2. 101 2. 110 - -
1982/83 2. 218 2. 100 1. 110 23. 8th
1983/84 2. 230 1. 115 2. 115 - -
1984/85 6th 135 10. 49 3. 78 25th 8th
1985/86 5. 196 2. 96 2. 100 - -
1986/87 6th 134 7th 58 2. 96 - -
1987/88 21st 58 9. 37 16. 21st - -
1988/89 17th 79 4th 67 21st 12 - -

* In the discipline world cup for giant slalom Ingemar Stenmark and Heini Hemmi each achieved 115 points for their five best results (three wins each with 25 points and two second places each with 20 points) in the 1976/77 season . The sixth best result was third place for Heini Hemmi and sixth place for Ingemar Stenmark. Even in the Slalom World Cup, which he won five times en suite, there was an equal number of points with his teammate Stig Strand (110) in 1982/83 , but the higher number of 3 to 2 in favor of Stenmarks for his sixth crystal ball was decisive. According to Ski-DB, the giant slalom crystal ball was therefore only awarded to Hemmi (and not to Stenmark) and the one in slalom only to Stenmark (and not to Strand), but in today's FIS statistics both are (incorrectly) on the first Place.

World Cup victories

An exact number of the World Cup races driven by Ingemar Stenmark is not archived. At first only for the first 10 of the classification, then for the first 15 World Cup points. The positions achieved from 11 to 15 or later from 16 to 30 are only incompletely recorded on the FIS website. What is certain is that he achieved 155 podiums and another 50 places in the top ten. He also won a parallel slalom on the Stilfser Joch in the World Series of Skiing on November 29, 1978 . as well as a parallel giant slalom on December 1, 1978 in St. Vigil in South Tyrol, and also a parallel slalom on December 14, 1978 in Madonna di Campiglio . All of these races were only part of the Nations Cup.

Stenmark achieved a total of 86 victories in the individual World Cup (46 × giant slalom, 40 × slalom):

Giant slalom

date place country
February 21, 1975 Naeba Ski Resort Japan
March 2nd 1975 Garibaldi Canada
March 13, 1975 Sun Valley United States
January 27, 1976 Zwiesel Germany
March 6, 1977 Sun Valley United States
March 21, 1977 Are Sweden
March 25, 1977 Sierra Nevada Spain
December 10, 1977 Val d'Isère France
December 14, 1977 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 8, 1978 Zwiesel Germany
March 18, 1978 Arosa Switzerland
December 9, 1978 Schladming Austria
December 22, 1978 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia
7th January 1979 Courchevel France
January 16, 1979 Adelboden Switzerland
January 23, 1979 Steinach am Brenner Austria
4th February 1979 Jasná Czechoslovakia
February 10, 1979 Are Sweden
March 4th 1979 Lake Placid United States
March 12, 1979 Heavenly Valley United States
March 19, 1979 Furano Japan
December 8, 1979 Val d'Isère France
December 12, 1979 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 21, 1980 Adelboden Switzerland
March 1, 1980 Mount Sainte-Anne Canada
March 11, 1980 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
March 13, 1980 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria
December 10, 1980 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 6, 1981 Morzine France
January 26, 1981 Adelboden Switzerland
2nd February 1981 Schladming Austria
February 11, 1981 Voss Norway
February 14, 1981 Are Sweden
January 9, 1982 Morzine France
January 19, 1982 Adelboden Switzerland
February 9, 1982 Kirchberg Austria
February 13, 1983 Todtnau Germany
February 26, 1983 Gällivare Sweden
January 10, 1984 Adelboden Switzerland
January 23, 1984 Kirchberg Austria
4th February 1984 Borovets Bulgaria
March 7, 1984 Vail United States
December 15, 1985 Alta Badia Italy
February 27, 1986 Hemsedal Norway
March 18, 1986 Lake Placid United States
February 19, 1989 Aspen United States

slalom

date place country
17th December 1974 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 12, 1975 Wengen Switzerland
15th December 1975 Sterzing Italy
January 11, 1976 Wengen Switzerland
January 24, 1976 Kitzbühel Austria
March 7, 1976 Copper Mountain United States
March 14, 1976 Aspen United States
3rd January 1977 Laax Switzerland
January 10, 1977 Berchtesgaden Germany
January 16, 1977 Kitzbühel Austria
January 23, 1977 Wengen Switzerland
February 6, 1977 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria
March 18, 1977 Voss Norway
March 20, 1977 Are Sweden
December 13, 1977 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
5th January 1978 Oberstaufen Germany
January 9, 1978 Zwiesel Germany
December 21, 1978 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia
February 11, 1979 Are Sweden
March 17, 1979 Furano Japan
December 11, 1979 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 27, 1980 Chamonix France
February 27, 1980 Waterville Valley United States
March 10, 1980 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
March 15, 1980 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria
December 9, 1980 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 18, 1981 Kitzbühel Austria
1st February 1981 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria
February 8, 1981 Oslo Norway
January 12, 1982 Bad Wiessee Germany
17th January 1982 Kitzbühel Austria
December 14, 1982 Courmayeur Italy
January 23, 1983 Kitzbühel Austria
February 11, 1983 Le Markstein France
December 13, 1983 Courmayeur Italy
December 20, 1983 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
17th January 1984 Parpan Switzerland
January 25, 1986 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria
November 29, 1986 Sestriere Italy
February 14, 1987 Le Markstein France

Junior European Championships

Swedish championships

Ingemar Stenmark became Swedish champion nine times :

  • Slalom: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979
  • Giant slalom: 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979

Honors

Besides Sarah Sjöström , Anja Pärson and Björn Borg, Ingemar Stenmark is the only athlete who has been honored twice with the renowned Svenska Dagbladet gold medal (1975, 1978). He also received the Holmenkollen Medal in 1979 and was honored with the Jerringpris radio sport in 1979 and 1980 . From 1977 to 1979 he was awarded the Skieur d'Or three times in a row by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .

Web links

Commons : Ingemar Stenmark  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Column 3, below: “Stenmark is training the descent with Haker” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 15, 1979, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ «Preventive or Complications»; «Volkszeitung Kärnten» No. 216 of September 20, 1979, page 28 (last page)
  3. «Stenmark after the fall:“ I'll drive on! ”» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 16, 1979, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ "Stenmark fit again in four weeks" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 17, 1979, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. Column 4 - with confused title “football program” (correct: “sport in brief”); fourth post . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 24, 1979, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. His sport belongs to him In: Die Zeit 10/1981 of February 27, 1981, accessed on January 4, 2012. “Only in exceptional cases did he allow himself to participate in downhill races, most recently in mid-January in Kitzbühel, where he - slowly, but sure - finished nine seconds behind the winner. "
  7. The departure for heroes. Die Presse, 2014, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  8. Müller cried, Mair cheered . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1982, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Discouraged by Stenmark? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 10 January 1978, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ^ "Stenmark can now rake in dollars"; «Kärntner Tageszeitung» No. 70 of March 22, 1980, page 12 (top left)
  11. Top right box: "Ingemar Stenmark bought B license" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 24, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. Monika could punish me. In: Der Spiegel 5/1984 of January 30, 1984, accessed on January 4, 2012. "In addition, the world champions Ingemar Stenmark and Hanni Wenzel are missing in Sarajevo because they had professional licenses."
  13. "It was horrible" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1974, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  14. Classification of the first round . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1976, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. Relieves the trainer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 11, 1976, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. Ingemar Stenmark lost World Championship gold to Steve Mahre . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1982, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. «Green light for Girardelli - and then record time!»; «Kleine Zeitung» Ktn issue no. 286 of December 11, 1987, page 74
  18. a b His sport belongs to him In: Die Zeit 10/1981 of February 27, 1981, accessed on January 4, 2012.
  19. Arnd Krüger & Swantje Scharenberg (eds.): Times for heroes - times for celebrities in sport . LIT, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12498-2 .
  20. John Hellström & Leif Yttergren: Ingemar Stenmark, folk hero and media star. The Media construction of a Swedish skiing hero in the 1970s, in: European Studies in Sport History 6 (2013), 93 - 110
  21. Who else but Ingemar? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 30, 1978, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  22. Moser against Martine Liouche . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 2, 1978, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  23. Won out of spite . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1978, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).