Lea Sölkner
Lea Sölkner-Schramek 
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| birthday | 24th December 1958 (age 61) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Tauplitz , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 164 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination |
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| society | WSV Tauplitz | ||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Lea Sölkner-Schramek (born December 24, 1958 in Tauplitz ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the end of the 1970s, until her resignation in 1984, she was one of the most successful female athletes in the Austrian Ski Sports Association and in 1978 became the slalom world champion .
biography
Sölkner came to skiing at an early age through her father, who was a ski instructor. She celebrated her first successes in junior races when she became Austrian student champion in slalom in her age group in 1969 and Austrian youth champion in downhill in 1974. Her first victory in the European Cup came in 1975 in the downhill from Aprica and with three other podium places she was seventh in the overall standings.
Sölkner had her first start in the World Cup on January 17, 1976 in the slalom in Berchtesgaden , five days later she scored her first points with fourth place in the Bad Gastein combination . On December 11, 1976, she came on the podium for the first time with second place in the giant slalom in Courmayeur . In 1977 she won her first of a total of three Austrian championship titles , and on January 22nd, 1978, she achieved another World Cup podium in the Maribor slalom .
Sölkner celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The then 19-year-old surprisingly won the slalom on Gudiberg ahead of the German Pamela Behr and the Austrian Monika Kaserer and became world champion. In the giant slalom she finished eleventh. Shortly after the World Cup, she came second in the World Cup slalom in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains .
Their first and only World Cup victory celebrated Sölkner January 23, 1979 in the slalom of the Gold Key race of Schruns . So she was third in the Slalom World Cup in the 1978/79 season . In the following winter it did not initially achieve any top positions. She was also unsuccessful at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . In the slalom she dropped out in the first run, in the giant slalom she did not take part in the second run. She achieved her best result of the season in March with fifth place in the slalom of Vysoké Tatry .
Since she no longer performed her previous performance in the technical disciplines, she concentrated more on the downhill, in which she was twice in the top ten in the 1980/81 season. On December 21, 1981, she was back on the podium with second place in the combination of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, and she achieved two more top three results in January 1982 in the downhill and in the combination of Bad Gastein. In the overall World Cup and the Downhill World Cup, she achieved her best results with sixth place each. At the 1982 World Cup in Schladming , however, she only came in 14th place in the slalom and 22nd place in the downhill.
At the beginning of the 1982/83 season, Sölkner came in second in the downhill from Val-d'Isère , but then only managed one more top ten result. In the winter of 1983/84 it was able to improve again and came third in the downhill from Val-d'Isère and second in the combination of Sestriere . At the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984 , however, she only finished eighth downhill, in the slalom she was eliminated in the first round. After the season, Sölkner ended her sporting career.
successes
winter Olympics
- Sarajevo 1984 : 8th departure
World championships
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 1st slalom, 11th giant slalom
- Schladming 1982 : 14th slalom, 22nd descent
World cup
- 1975/76 season : 9th combined ranking
- 1976/77 season : 7th giant slalom ranking
- 1977/78 season : 9th overall World Cup, 5th slalom ranking, 7th giant slalom ranking
- 1978/79 season : 3rd slalom classification
- 1979/80 season : 10th slalom ranking
- 1981/82 season : 6th overall World Cup, 4th combined ranking, 6th downhill ranking
- 1982/83 season : 9th downhill classification
- 1983/84 season : 6th combined classification, 9th downhill classification
- 10 podium places, including one victory (slalom in Schruns on January 23, 1979)
European Cup
- 1974/75 season : 7th overall ranking, 6th slalom ranking
- 1977/78 season : 3rd overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking
- 4 wins and 4 third places
Austrian championships
Lea Sölkner was three times Austrian champion :
literature
- Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 416f
Web links
- Lea Sölkner in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Lea Sölkner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Lea Sölkner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Lea Sölkner on Munzinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lea Sölkner-Schramek ( 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. also accessed on March 28, 2013 at the charity race of the 2013 Alpine World Ski Championships
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| SURNAME | Sölkner, Lea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tauplitz , Austria |