Irmgard Lukasser
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nation | Austria | ||||||||||||
birthday | 3rd February 1954 (age 66) | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Assling , Austria | ||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||
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discipline |
Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||
End of career | 1979 | ||||||||||||
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Irmgard Lukasser-Ebster (born February 3, 1954 in Assling ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She was active in the 1970s and mostly drove downhill .
biography
After several Tyrolean and Austrian youth championship titles in downhill and giant slalom, Lukasser came to her third appearance in the Ski World Cup on December 7, 1972 (after the downhill ranks 21 in Badgastein and 17 in Grindelwald last year) ; she finished the descent in Val-d'Isère with start no. 28 in third place. In January 1973, two more podium places followed in Pfronten . With several top 10 placings (including in giant slalom, the most outstanding being twice the 5th place on January 6, 1974 in Pfronten and three days later in Les Gets ), she qualified for the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz , where she was in the giant slalom 14th on February 3rd and thirteenth in slalom on February 8th, but retired on February 7th in the downhill.
After two further podium places in January 1976, she was one of the favorites before the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , but only achieved 12th place in the downhill. In 1977 she was only able to contest one World Cup race due to an injury. The departure of the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen she finished ninth. In February 1979 she announced her retirement from top-class sport.
She is married to the former soccer player Norbert Ebster and has three children.
successes
Olympic games
- Innsbruck 1976 : 12th departure
World championships
- St. Moritz 1974 : 13th slalom, 14th giant slalom
- Innsbruck 1976 : 12th departure
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 9th departure
World cup
- 1972/73 season : 10th overall World Cup, 5th Downhill World Cup
- 1973/74 season : 11th overall World Cup, 8th Downhill World Cup
- 1975/76 season : 12th overall World Cup, 4th Downhill World Cup
- 1977/78 season : 16th overall World Cup, 7th Downhill World Cup
- 5 podium places and another 26 top ten placements
Web links
- Irmgard Lukasser in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Irmgard Lukasser in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Irmgard Lukasser in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Sportunion Compedal Thal / Assling
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Rouvier in non-stop training . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1972, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Annemarie Pröll struck again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 8, 1972, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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SURNAME | Lukasser, Irmgard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lukasser-Ebster, Irmgard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd February 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Assling |