Konrad Bartelski
Konrad Bartelski 
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| birthday | May 27, 1954 | ||||||||
| place of birth | London | ||||||||
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| discipline | Departure | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1983 | ||||||||
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Konrad Bartelski (born May 27, 1954 in London ) is a former British ski racer . Bartelski is the most successful British World Cup downhill skier to date.
Life
Bartelski grew up in the Netherlands. In 1972, at the age of 17, he first took part in the Winter Olympics in Sapporo . He landed a respectable success in 1974 at the 1974 World Ski Championships in St. Moritz , where he finished 15th in the downhill.
Bartelski caused a stir in the 1974/75 season with a dramatic fall. At the World Cup descent from Megève on February 1, 1975, he jumped shortly before the finish line with the trailing edge of his skis on the slopes again and rolled over. He was admitted to the hospital by helicopter with a severe concussion and a fractured nasal bone . After a week in the hospital and a recovery period at home, Bartelski was back on skis four weeks after his fall.
He landed another respectable success at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games with a 12th place in the Olympic downhill run from Lake Placid . He then celebrated the greatest success of his career in the 1981/82 World Cup season . Almost seven years after his serious fall, he managed the ride of his life on the World Cup descent from Val Gardena on December 13, 1981. Until shortly before the end of his run, Bartelski, who started with No. 29, was in the lead with about a tenth of a second (measured intermediate times: initially 0.15, later 0.22 seconds ahead). He lost a lot of time in the failed final jump, but at the end of the race he was in second place, 11 hundredths behind the winner Erwin Resch . The commentator on French television shouted about this sensation: Ce n'est pas possible! C'est un anglais! (German: That is not possible! That is an Englishman! ). Until January 22nd, 2017, when Dave Ryding also finished second in the slalom on the Ganslernhang in Kitzbühel , Bartelski was the only British alpine skier to ever achieve second place.
In the course of the season he drove into the points three more times. His hussar ride from Val Gardena, however, remained a unique event. In 1983 Bartelski ended his active career and worked as a sports commentator in the following years. Today he works as a producer and consultant in the media sector.
Web links
- Konrad Bartelski homepage
- Konrad Bartelski in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Konrad Bartelski in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Konrad Bartelski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "This race was a scandal!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 2, 1975, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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| SURNAME | Bartelski, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |