Kurt Hennrich

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Kurt Hennrich (born August 28, 1931 in Türmaul / Drmaly ; † July 28, 2020 ) was a Czechoslovak ski racer and trainer.

Life

Hennrich grew up in Hohenofen / Vysoká Pec . He trained in Klíny and acquired his risk-taking driving technique autodidactically. At the beginning of the 1950s he was one of the few winter sports enthusiasts from the Ore Mountains who were able to break through the dominance of the athletes from the Giant Mountains . He achieved his first national success in 1953 as a Czechoslovak junior champion, due to which he was accepted into the national team. Two years later Hennrich was Czechoslovakian champion in slalom and runner-up in downhill . In 1956 Hennrich again achieved second place in the state championship in downhill skiing , third in giant slalom and second in the combination of three.

In 1956 Hennrich started at the Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo . For the descent on the 3.5-kilometer Tofana , he needed 9.3 seconds more than the winner Toni Sailer . Hennrich had almost caught up with the Briton Nigel Gardner , who had started before him , when he lost his right ski 700 meters from the finish. He drove the rest of the way on just one board and finally achieved seventh place with a time of 181.5 seconds. This was also the best placement of a Czechoslovak athlete in Olympic downhill competitions. Later, only the women Olga Charvátová and Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová achieved better placements with third and fifth place at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo . Hennrich also took 36th place in both slalom and giant slalom in Cortina, placing him ninth in the combined ranking of all three disciplines. However, the combination was not an Olympic discipline, but only counted as a world championship competition (the 1956 Winter Olympic Games were, as was customary at the time, also classified as world championships).

In 1958 Hennrich took part in the world championships in Bad Gastein , where he finished 23rd in the downhill and 29th in the giant slalom. He was denied further participation in the Olympics as an active player, as Czechoslovakia did not send skiers to Squaw Valley for the 1960 Winter Olympics for cost reasons.

In 1962, Hennrich ended his active sports career and then worked for two years as a coach of the Olympic team for the 1964 Games . At the same time he was the coach of the Czechoslovak national team until 1969. At this time Hennrich was studying engineering at the Liberec University of Mechanical Engineering, which he graduated as an industrial chemist in 1965. Professionally, he worked as an engineer at the Litvínov Chemical Works . On his house slope in Klíny he worked as a trainer and participated in the construction of a ski lift. After the velvet revolution , Hennrich founded EGAR sro in Vysoká Pec, a company that sells stainless steel products and provides engineering services.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Hennrich in the Olympedia.org database (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.nastup.cz/archiv/2011/pdf/38/04.pdf  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nastup.cz  
  3. ↑ Steffen Neumann: Athlete races to 7th place with just one ski , Freie Presse , February 20, 2012, p. 14
  4. ↑ http://www.nastup.cz/archiv/2011/pdf/38/04.pdf  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nastup.cz  
  5. ↑ http://www.skiindex.cz/-/-/Perny-den-s-klinskymi/
  6. ↑ http://www.nastup.cz/archiv/2011/pdf/38/04.pdf  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nastup.cz  
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2010 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.egar.cz

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personal data
SURNAME Hennrich, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Door mouth
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2020