Irene Epple-Waigel
Irene Epple 
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| birthday | 18th June 1957 (age 63) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Seeg , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Irene Epple (* 18th June 1957 in Seeg in the Allgäu as Irene Epple ) is a former German alpine skier . Her younger sister Maria was also successful in the Ski World Cup.
biography
Her first big success was the second place at the World Ski Championships in the downhill in 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . She missed another medal in the giant slalom: after the first run she was surprisingly in the lead with start number 26 and 0.11 seconds ahead of her sister (and ultimately the winner) Maria, but fell back to fourth place. She won the Olympic silver medal in giant slalom in Lake Placid in 1980 and was the Ski World Cup winner in 1982 in giant slalom and combined . Epple won six German championships between 1973 and 1981, three each in downhill skiing and three in giant slalom. She was voted German Sportswoman of the Year in 1980. During her career, she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in her knee that was untreated for six years and resulted in osteoarthritis in the knee.
She won the first ever women's Super-G in World Cup history, which was held in Verbier on January 9, 1983 , with start no. 5 wore. On March 4, 1982 there was the only double victory for the Epple sisters: In the giant slalom of Waterville Valley , Irene won 0.26 seconds ahead of Maria.
After her career, Epple studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1992 she received her doctorate with the work The effects of differently absorbable carbohydrates on the carbohydrate and fat metabolism of obese and normal-weight test persons . In November 1994 she married the then Federal Minister of Finance Theo Waigel . She has a son with him. In 2004 she was awarded the Bavarian Sports Prize in the "High-Performance Athlete Plus" category.
Epple is involved in the board of trustees of the Tabaluga Children's Foundation and in the context of the Christmas parcel campaign "Present with a heart" (initiated by the non-governmental organization humedica e.V. ) for children in need. She was the long-standing patron of the Children's Health Foundation and was appointed honorary curator in 2016. From 2002 (re-election 2008) she was two terms of office for the CSU district councilor in the district council of the Ostallgäu district .
The patronage for the first Alpine World Ski Championships of the Deaf in Nesselwang in the Allgäu from 23 February to 2 March 2013 Epple took along with her husband.
successes
Olympic Games (also World Cup)
- Innsbruck 1976 : 10th descent, 15th giant slalom
- Lake Placid 1980 : 2nd giant slalom
World championships
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 2nd descent, 4th giant slalom
- Schladming 1982 : 7th combination, 8th descent, 14th giant slalom
World Cup ratings
Irene Epple won the discipline classification in giant slalom and in the combination.
| season | total | Departure | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | |||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1972/73 | 41. | 3 | - | - | 47. | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 1973/74 | 34. | 2 | - | - | - | - | 24. | 2 | - | - |
| 1974/75 | 13. | 60 | 7th | 38 | 19th | 5 | 13. | 11 | - | - |
| 1975/76 | 10. | 73 | 6th | 42 | 12. | 16 | 22nd | 4th | 9. | 11 |
| 1976/77 | 18th | 49 | 7th | 43 | - | - | 19th | 2 | - | - |
| 1977/78 | 11. | 62 | 6th | 36 | 8th. | 30th | - | - | - | - |
| 1978/79 | 3. | 189 | 5. | 81 | 3. | 105 | - | - | - | - |
| 1979/80 | 5. | 141 | 6th | 51 | 4th | 83 | 31. | 5 | 9. | 21st |
| 1980/81 | 5. | 181 | 4th | 71 | 3. | 78 | 42. | 1 | 10. | 31 |
| 1981/82 | 2. | 282 | 5. | 69 | 1. | 120 | 20th | 23 | 1. | 85 |
| 1982/83 | 6th | 117 | 18th | 24 | 7th | 65 | 38. | 2 | 3. | 40 |
| 1983/84 | 4th | 178 | 2. | 94 | 12. | 33 | 34. | 3 | 2. | 77 |
| 1984/85 | 35. | 35 | 24. | 15th | 22nd | 20th | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
Epple achieved a total of 44 podium places, of which 11 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| March 12, 1980 | Saalbach-Hinterglemm | Austria | Giant slalom |
| 4th December 1980 | Val d'Isère | France | Giant slalom |
| 4th December 1981 | Val d'Isère | France | Giant slalom |
| December 10, 1981 | Pila | Italy | Giant slalom |
| 18th December 1981 | Piancavallo | Italy | combination |
| January 8, 1982 | Pfronten | Germany | Giant slalom |
| January 13, 1982 | Pfronten / Grindelwald | Germany / Switzerland | combination |
| March 4th 1982 | Waterville Valley | United States | Giant slalom |
| January 9, 1983 | Verbier | Switzerland | Super G |
| 7th December 1983 | Val d'Isère | France | Departure |
| December 11, 1983 | Val d'Isère | France | combination |
Awards
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11.00 am, Prime Minister Horst Seehofer presented her with the Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the dome hall of the Bavarian State Chancellery . She is also the bearer of the silver bay leaf .
Web links
- Irene Epple-Waigel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Irene Epple-Waigel in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Irene Epple-Waigel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ All- rounder Annemarie. Arbeiter-Zeitung , February 5, 1978, accessed March 17, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Source: Arbeiterzeitung Wien of January 10, 1983, page 9
- ↑ Sport-Bild & Audi present the World Ski Championships '93 - Everything about the exciting races from February 3rd to 14th in Morioka (Japan) , Sport-Bild from February 3rd, 1993, p. 31ff, 33
- ↑ Homepage of the Tabaluga Children's Foundation Foundation Board of Trustees
- ↑ Homepage of Gift with Heart
- ↑ Children's Health Foundation - The Organization. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Ostallgäu District Office: Composition of the District Council ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk on the occasion of its 60th birthday , accessed on June 16, 2017
- ↑ Homepage of the 1st Alpine World Ski Championships ( memento of the original from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release of the Bavarian State Government of March 23, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Epple-Waigel, Irene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Epple, Irene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seeg |