Ingrid Gfölner

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Ingrid Gutzwiller-Gfölner Alpine skiing
Ingrid Gutzwiller-Gfölner
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 13th September 1952 (age 67)
place of birth Schruns , Austria
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Vandans, SC Montafon
status resigned
End of career 1977
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1968/69
 Overall World Cup 9. ( 1972/73 )
 Downhill World Cup 4. (1972/73)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 14th (1972/73)
 Slalom World Cup 28th ( 1974/75 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 3 2
 

Ingrid Gutzwiller-Gfölner (* 13. September 1952 in Schruns as Ingrid Gfölner ) is a former Austrian alpine skier . Her strongest discipline was downhill . She became three-time Austrian national champion (1968 youth; 1971 downhill and combined) and achieved five podium places in the Ski World Cup . In addition, she was three times Austrian champion in firn gliding .

Career

Ingrid Gfölner was born in Schruns and grew up in Vandans . She started skiing as a child and competed in her first races at the age of nine.

Austrian youth champion in the 1968 downhill

In 1968 she became Austrian youth champion in the downhill. She had her first appearances in the World Cup as a 16-year-old in the 1968/69 season . This winter she achieved several placements among the best 25. Already in the next winter , Gfölner made it to the top of the world. In the second downhill of the season in Bad Gastein , she finished sixth, qualifying for the 1970 World Cup in Val Gardena . There the 17-year-old Vorarlberg woman reached 5th place in the downhill, but she only finished the giant slalom in 16th position. In the 1970/71 season she narrowly missed the points in the downhill runs, but in the giant slalom she came under the top ten three times. Her best result was fifth in Abetone .

In the Ski World Cup in the 1968/69 to 1973/74 season she was Annemarie Moser-Pröll's best friend and roommate for five years , as described in Heinz Prüller's book “Das Mädchen Pröll” .

Austrian Alpine Ski Championships 1971

At the Austrian championships she won the downhill and the combined. In the autumn of 1971 Gfölner was seriously injured and was therefore unable to contest any races in the entire winter of 1971/72.

Award ceremony, departure 01/15/1975.jpg

Presentation ceremony of Kapell-departure at Gold Key Race 1975:
Ingrid Schmid-Gfölner as runner-up (to the left Bernadette Zurbriggen and Marie-Theres Nadig )

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Ingrid Schmid-Gfölner after the 1975 departure in Schruns (January 1975)

In the 1972/73 season , the Vorarlberg woman made an impressive comeback. On January 10, 1973 she finished third in the second downhill from Pfronten for the first time on the podium. She also came third on February 1st in the downhill from Schruns and nine days later she came second in St. Moritz behind the superior Annemarie Pröll . With that she finished fourth in the Downhill World Cup. She also achieved several good results in the giant slalom. The fourth place in Mont Sainte-Anne on March 2nd was her best ever World Cup result in this discipline. The 1973/74 season began Gfölner with a second place in the downhill from Val-d'Isère , where she was again only subject to the dominant Annemarie Moser-Pröll. She achieved two more results among the best six in Zell am See and Bad Gastein, which brought her to fifth place in the Downhill World Cup. In the 1974 World Cup, however, she could not take part because she fell in the team's internal qualification and thus had lost her chance of a starting place. In the giant slalom, her best result of the season was sixth place in Vysoké Tatry .

After their marriage, she started under the name Schmid-Gfölner in the 1974/75 season . In Schruns , on January 15, 1975, she took second place in a World Cup downhill run for the third time, this time behind Swiss Bernadette Zurbriggen .

On January 27, 1975, she was banned until the end of the season by the interim manager of the women's team, Oskar Brändle, for "damaging behavior towards a teammate". Before the final in Val Gardena on March 20, there was a pardon because "the punishment had served its purpose as a deterrent example". The runner herself always denied all allegations raised because the damage to reputation had come from two other teammates. The objection committee of the ÖSV then rehabilitated her because of the intrigue within the team.

Overall, she came in ninth twice in the downhill runs (in addition to the already mentioned 2nd place), in Grindelwald on January 10th and in Innsbruck on January 24th. In the giant slalom she took two seventh places and in the parallel competition at the end of the season in Val Gardena she was eighth. In the following winter Schmid-Gfölner did not get any top positions in the downhill and she never finished in the top ten in any race. In the giant slalom, she just made it into the top ten three times. However, these results were not sufficient for participation in the Olympics. Before the start of the 1976/77 season, the Vorarlberg woman was injured. As a result, she never reached the points in any race.

In addition to her career in ski racing, Gfölner was also active as a company manager and won the Austrian championships three times in a row from 1973 to 1975 .

In February 1977 she finally ended her active career.

The mother of three adult children has lived with her second husband Christian Gutzwiller in Schruns in the Montafon since 2006 .

Abuse allegations 2017

In the course of Nicola Werdenigg's allegations of abuse of alleged abuse in the vicinity of the Austrian ski team in the 1970s and 1980s, she supported their statements and criticized Annemarie Moser-Pröll's attitude .

Sporting successes

World championships

World cup

  • 1969/70 season : 9th descent
  • 1972/73 season : 9th overall World Cup, 4th downhill
  • 1973/74 season : 5th descent
  • Five podium places, another five placements among the top five and another 18 times among the top ten

Austrian championships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Storm suffered a fractured lower leg . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 8, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Ingrid Schmid wants to fight against exclusion . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 30, 1975, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Still the best as a patient . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 30, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Terror without end? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 30, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ A sporty pensioner. In: vn.at. February 4, 2013 (fee required).
  6. ↑ From Vorarlberg, Werdenigg's roommate: “I believe Nicola every word”. In: vol.at. December 7, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018.
  7. ^ Former companion Werdeniggs criticizes Moser-Pröll. In: Nachrichten.at. December 6, 2017, accessed November 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ This is how Charly Kahr fights against the sex campaign. In: Krone.at. March 11, 2018, accessed November 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gfölner, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutzwiller-Gfölner, Ingrid; Schmid-Gfölner, Ingrid; Schmid, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Schruns , Austria