Kurt Engstler

Kurt Engstler
nation	Austria
birthday	10th July 1949 (age 71)
place of birth	Tschagguns , Austria
Career
discipline	Departure
society	WSV Tschagguns
status	resigned
End of career	1976
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut March 1970  Overall World Cup 34th ( 1972/73 )  Downhill World Cup 13. (1972/1973)

Kurt Engstler (born July 10, 1949 in Tschagguns , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian ski racer and trainer . In his special downhill discipline, he achieved three top 10 placements in the World Cup and twice won the downhill classification in the European Cup . After the end of his active career, he was, among other things, downhill and super-G trainer for men in the Austrian Ski Association .

Career

Engstler achieved his first successes at national level in 1967 when he became Austrian youth champion in downhill and combined . Three years later it was used for the first time in the World Cup in Voss in March 1970 , but initially had no noteworthy results at its starts at the highest level. After winning an FIS downhill in Pfronten and second place at the Austrian Championships in the winter of 1970/1971, he made his breakthrough in the newly introduced European Cup in the 1971/72 season . Engstler won two downhill runs in Thyon and secured victory in the downhill discipline classification. His best World Cup result that winter was a 24th place at the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel .

After his European Cup success, Engstler was able to catch up with the extended top in the World Cup in the following winter of 1972/73 . He won his first World Cup points with the sixth place on the Saslong in Val Gardena , which was also his best World Cup result, finished eighth in Grindelwald and seventh in St. Moritz , placing him 13th in the Downhill World Cup. Engstler could not repeat these results later. He therefore started again primarily in the European Cup, won the downhill classification for the second time in the 1974/75 season with five race victories and was second overall. In the winter of 1975/76, he again concentrated on the World Cup, but remained without World Cup points, whereupon he ended his active career in 1976.

In the same year Engstler started as a trainer at the English Ski Association before he switched to the Vorarlberg Ski Association as a youth coach in 1977. In 1991 he became the men's downhill and super-G group trainer in the Austrian Ski Association , taking care of the downhill skier Patrick Ortlieb , who was also from Vorarlberg . After working for the Vorarlberg Ski Association for a few more years, Engstler ended his coaching activity in 2002.

successes

World cup

• 3 placements among the top ten

European Cup

• 2nd place in the overall ranking of the 1974/75 season
• Winning the downhill classification in the 1971/72 and 1974/75 seasons
• 8 race wins:

season	place	country	discipline
1971/1972	Thyon	Switzerland	Departure
1971/1972	Thyon	Switzerland	Departure
1973/1974	Megève	France	Departure
1974/1975	Laax	Switzerland	Departure
1974/1975	Laax	Switzerland	Departure
1974/1975	Morzine	France	Departure
1974/1975	Jahorina	Yugoslavia	Departure
1974/1975	Jahorina	Yugoslavia	Departure

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 66-67.

Web links

• Kurt Engstler in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Kurt Engstler in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Engstler won medals at Austrian youth championships. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2016 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. ÖSV winner board, accessed on July 12, 2012.