Leonhard Stock

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Leonhard Stock Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 14th March 1958 (age 62)
place of birth Finkenberg , Austria
size 183 cm
Weight 84 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom
combination
society WSV Zell am Ziller
status resigned
End of career 1993
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championship 2 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Lake Placid 1980 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Lake Placid 1980 Departure
bronze Lake Placid 1980 combination
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
silver Mayrhofen 1975 Departure
silver Mayrhofen 1975 Giant slalom
gold Gällivare 1976 Departure
gold Gällivare 1976 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 1976
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 1978/79 )
 Downhill World Cup 5. ( 1991/92 )
 Super G World Cup 4. ( 1985/86 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 8. ( 1977/78 )
 Slalom World Cup 26. (1978/79)
 Combination World Cup 4. (1985/86)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 5 4th
 Super G 0 1 5
 combination 0 4th 3
 

Leonhard Stock (born March 14, 1958 in Finkenberg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . His greatest success was winning the downhill gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics , which also counted as a world championship medal. He competed in the Ski World Cup from 1976 to 1993, but had to wait until 1989 for his first victory. He won a total of three World Cup runs and made it onto the podium 25 times.

biography

The way to Olympic victory

Leonhard Stock grew up with four siblings, his parents had a farm and a pension . He completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. He competed in his first ski races at the age of six and celebrated his first victory at the age of ten. The Tyrolean took part in two very successful junior European championships. In 1975 he won two silver medals in Giant Slalom and Downhill in Mayrhofen, and in 1976 he won the gold medal in these disciplines.

In the World Cup Stock launched from the 1976/77 season . He scored his first points on January 8, 1977 with eighth place in the Kandahar downhill run from Garmisch-Partenkirchen , and two fifth places in the combination of Wengen and in the downhill run from Heavenly Valley . Three fifth places, each in the giant slalom, were his best results in the 1977/78 season . So he qualified in this discipline for the world championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but only came in 27th there. In early August 1978 he won two giant slaloms in Thredbo . At the beginning of the 1978/79 season he reached his first podium with second place in the combination of Schladming , another followed at the beginning of February in the descent from Villars-sur-Ollon . With a further four fourth places and a total of 14 places among the top ten in all disciplines (except in slalom, here his best result was an eleventh place), he finished second in the overall World Cup in his third World Cup season behind the Swiss Peter Lüscher . He could not repeat this result later.

Even before the actual start of the 1979/80 season , Stock fell badly on December 5 in the first downhill training session in Val-d'Isère and sustained injuries to his shoulder and knee. Participation in the Olympic Games in Lake Placid no longer seemed possible. But Stock quickly began to train again with a plaster cast on his shoulder and on January 18th achieved fifth place in the first downhill run from Wengen. Therefore, he was initially taken to the USA as a substitute driver . After two best training times on Whiteface Mountain , he was nominated as one of the four Austrian starters for the Olympic downhill. Stock was able to more than justify his line-up, won the descent with a 0.62 second lead over Peter Wirnsberger and became Olympic and world champion at the same time. With 18th place in the slalom and 26th place in the giant slalom, he also won the bronze medal in the combination, which only counted as a World Cup medal. His Olympic victory brought him to the cover of “Time magazine”.

Long dry spell

In the World Cup, the Zillertal was repeatedly thrown back by several injuries and could not confirm his success for a long time. At the beginning of the 1980/81 season he reached second place in the combination of Madonna di Campiglio / Val Gardena , but after a serious fall on the downhill from Garmisch on January 10th, he could not contest any races for over a month and did not come again among the top three. In the winter of 1981/82 he only reached two third places at the beginning and then did not get on the podium. With several top ten results in the downhill he qualified at least in this discipline for the 1982 World Cup in Schladming , but only finished 15th there. In the 1982/83 season his best result was only a sixth place in the downhill from Lake Louise . After Stock achieved two third places at the beginning of the 1983/84 season in the combination of Val-d'Isère and Madonna di Campiglio for the first time in the Super-G, which was included in the World Cup program last year, he fell on January 7th difficult on the descent from Laax . He broke several lumbar vertebrae and then had to take a six-week break, which is why he missed the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. The next winter it was unable to match its former form. He only finished in the points in two combinations and was therefore not used at the World Championships in Bormio.

After a change of material, Stock found his way back to his previous performances in the 1985/86 season . He made it onto the podium a total of seven times, finishing sixth in the overall World Cup, sixth in the Downhill World Cup for the second time after 1979, and fourth in the Super G classification, his best result ever. A World Cup victory was still denied him. In the 1986/87 season he made three podiums again and came in seventh in the overall World Cup. In addition, on December 28, 1986, with 14,800 visitors on the Teufelsberg in Berlin, he won the parallel slalom in front of Bojan Križaj, which was only part of the Nations Cup . At the 1987 World Cup in Crans-Montana , his first major event in five years, he narrowly missed a medal with fourth place in the Super-G, and eighth place in both the downhill and the combined. In 1987 he became Austrian champion in downhill and super-G. Stock's results in the 1987/88 season were slightly worse . The fourth place in the downhill from Bad Kleinkirchheim was his best result. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary he was fourth in the downhill again just outside the medal ranks, in the Super-G he finished eighth.

World Cup victories

At the beginning of the 1988/89 season, the Tyrolean took third place in the Super-G in Schladming again on the podium, in December he also came third in the downhill from St. Anton . After 19 podium places, the now 30-year-old finally achieved his first World Cup victory in his twelfth World Cup season: Nine years after the Olympic victory, he won the Laax descent on January 6, 1989 in front of his teammates Peter Wirnsberger and Helmut Höflehner and was thus in the World Cup for the first time right at the top of the podium. The rest of the season was rather disappointing and at the World Championships in Vail he only finished ninth in the Super-G and 22nd in the downhill. Due to an injury, he only finished three times in the points next winter .

At the beginning of the 1990/91 season , Stock won his second World Cup race in Val-d'Isère, but otherwise only made it into the top ten twice. At the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , the Tyrolean with fourth place in the downhill barely missed a medal again. The 1991/92 season began with two second places in the runs from Val-d'Isère and Gröden. With a few other good results, he reached fifth place in the Downhill World Cup - his best result. At the 1992 Olympics , however, he had no success and could not finish the downhill. In the 1992/93 season floor drove his last race. On December 12th, he celebrated his third World Cup victory on the downhill from Val Gardena (he was the oldest winner of a World Cup race at the time), ten days later he was second in the Super-G in Bad Kleinkirchheim. However , he was unable to take part in the World Cup in Japan due to an illness. On March 26, 1993 he ended his career at the age of 35 with 13th place in the Super-G at the season finale in Åre .

Stock drove a total of 17 seasons in the Ski World Cup, scored World Cup points in all disciplines, finished in the top ten in 102 races, came on the podium 25 times in Downhill, Super-G and Combination and won three downhill runs. In the giant slalom he achieved a fourth and several fifth places, in the slalom an eleventh place was his best result.

In 1997, Stock took over his parents' house and expanded it into a 4-star hotel. With his brother Hans, he also owns a sports and fashion shop in Finkenberg.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1976/77 31. 31 17th 15th - - - - - - - -
1977/78 21st 29 22nd 5 - - 8th. 24 - - - -
1978/79 2. 163 6th 67 - - 10. 69 26th 17th - -
1979/80 45. 21st 23. 11 - - 24. 10 - - - -
1980/81 12. 97 10. 43 - - 18th 34 - - 7th 20th
1981/82 18th 64 11. 49 - - - - - - 14th 15th
1982/83 33. 55 15th 41 - - 26th 14th - - - -
1983/84 43. 33 41. 1 - - 24. 17th - - 11. 15th
1984/85 73. 10 - - - - - - - - 20th 10
1985/86 6th 174 6th 74 4th 52 25th 10 - - 4th 55
1986/87 7th 97 10. 56 5. 42 29 5 - - - -
1987/88 14th 72 10. 42 6th 30th - - - - - -
1988/89 18th 76 11. 57 12. 19th - - - - - -
1989/90 73. 12 26th 11 33. 1 - - - - - -
1990/91 27. 50 7th 50 - - - - - - - -
1991/92 15th 477 5. 403 23. 74 - - - - - -
1992/93 25th 288 14th 188 16. 100 - - - - - -

World Cup victories

Stock achieved 25 podium places, including 3 wins:

date place country discipline
January 6, 1989 Laax Switzerland Departure
December 8, 1990 Val d'Isère France Departure
December 12, 1992 Val Gardena Italy Departure

In addition, on December 3, 1978, he won the parallel slalom, which is only part of the Nations Cup, as part of the World Series of Skiing in St. Vigil in South Tyrol.

Junior European Championships

Austrian championships

Awards (excerpt)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Column 3 below: «Stick before Jäger» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 12, 1978, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Gloss below: "Hope"; penultimate paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 7, 1988, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Column 5, below with an illustration of the relevant “Time magazine” with the title “Daredevil on Skis” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1980, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ "Light into the dark through stick" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1986, p. 17 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ "Weather: When the Cold War was raging on the ski slopes in Berlin - DIE WELT" - http://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13859146/Als-der-Kalte-Krieg-in-Berlin-auf-der -Skipiste-tobte.html
  6. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Wien "of December 4, 1978, page 7
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Stock, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Finkenberg