Klaus Mayr
Klaus Mayr (born January 3, 1940 in Pfronten ) is a former German ski racer and ski trainer in the German Ski Association (DSV). Between 1968 and 1992, Mayr alternately looked after the German national alpine ski teams for women and men.
During his active time as a ski racer, Mayr was part of the German B-team. In 1968, at the age of 28, he took over the training of the women's national ski team without prior training in sports science. In this role he looked after Rosi Mittermaier during her Olympic victories in Innsbruck in 1976 and received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1978 . In 1980 Mayr switched to the men's national team and was able to celebrate successes in this role in the following years, including the world title of Markus Wasmeier in the 1985 downhill and Frank Wörndl's in the slalom in 1987. After a short time in the DSV office, he returned at the end of the 1980s back down the slope and took turns taking on the role of women's, men's and head coach. After the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he retired from work in the ski association and ran a fitness center in Pfronten for several years. He later took on a position as a ski instructor in the Allgäu.
Mayr, who originally worked as a customs officer, was characterized as a reserved and objective trainer. He did not regard himself as authoritarian, but saw a reason for the success of his athletes in "hard [m], almost brutal [m] training".
Web link
- Klaus Mayr in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Olympic gold and world championship title: How this Pfrontener made German skiers winners on allgaeuer-zeitung.de. Released March 5, 2020. Accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Almost brutal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1978, pp. 218 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Mayr, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pfronten , Bavaria , Germany |