Marc Girardelli

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Marc Girardelli Alpine skiing
Marc Girardelli (2014)
nation LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
birthday 18th July 1963 (age 57)
place of birth Lustenau , Austria
job Entrepreneur
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career December 21, 1996
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 4 × gold 4 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Albertville 1992 Super G
silver Albertville 1992 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Bormio 1985 slalom
bronze Bormio 1985 Giant slalom
gold Crans-Montana 1987 combination
silver Crans-Montana 1987 Super G
silver Crans-Montana 1987 Giant slalom
gold Vail 1989 combination
bronze Vail 1989 slalom
gold Saalbach 1991 slalom
silver Morioka 1993 slalom
bronze Morioka 1993 combination
gold Sierra Nevada 1996 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 26, 1980
 Individual world cup victories 46
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1984/85 , 1985/86 , 1988/89 ,

1990/91 , 1992/93 )

 Downhill World Cup 1. (1988/89, 1993/94 )
 Super G World Cup 2. ( 1986/87 , 1991/92 , 1993/94 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1984/85)
 Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1983/84 , 1984/85, 1990/91)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1988/89, 1990/91, 1992/93,

1994/95)

 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 8th 6th
 Super G 9 4th 5
 Giant slalom 7th 10 9
 slalom 16 4th 5
 combination 11 2 1
 

Marc Girardelli (born July 18, 1963 in Lustenau , Vorarlberg ) is a former alpine ski racer from Austria who competed for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for almost his entire career . He is one of the most successful racers: He won the overall World Cup five times and 46 World Cup races (5th place) with 100 podium places (3rd place). In addition, he is one of the few athletes who have become winners in all alpine disciplines , and among them the one with the most victories in men. He won eleven medals (four gold, four silver, three bronze) at world championships and came second twice at the Olympic Games. Girardelli has been an entrepreneur since his resignation in 1997.

Sports career

Girardelli, whose ancestors came from Italy , learned to ski at the age of five. In 1971 he took part in the first children's race and in the same year became the Vorarlberg slalom champion in his age category. In 1975 and 1977 he won the Trofeo Topolino . In 1976, at the age of twelve, he switched from the Austrian to the Luxembourg ski association , as his father Helmut Girardelli accused the Austrian ski association of not giving his son enough support.

In 1978 Girardelli drove the first FIS races and up until that year he attended the secondary school in Dornbirn . He made up his Matura with distance learning until 1987 . On February 26, 1980 he started for the first time in a world cup race, the giant slalom in Waterville Valley , and finished in 13th place. Almost a year later, on January 25, 1981, he achieved his first podium finish in second in the slalom in Wengen . In the 1981/82 season , four more podium places followed in the giant slalom. He celebrated his first World Cup victory on February 27, 1983 when he won the slalom in Gällivare .

No entry authorization for the 1984 Olympic Games

At the end of the 1982/83 season , Girardelli suffered such severe injuries to his left knee that he has not been able to bend it properly since then and the insurance company declared 15 percent partially disabled. Despite this impairment, Girardelli was able to increase his performance, won five slaloms in the 1983/84 season , was also first in the slalom classification and third in the overall World Cup. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , he was not allowed to start because he was not a citizen of Luxembourg (he did not receive Luxembourg nationality until 1987).

First participation in the World Cup and first overall World Cup victory in 1985

At the Ski World Cup 1985 in Bormio , however, Girardelli was allowed to compete; A decree issued by Marc Hodler , President of the International Ski Federation (FIS) on January 31, 1985 made this possible. The reason given was that the application for Luxembourg citizenship had been submitted and the proceedings were therefore ongoing. Girardelli finished second in slalom and third in giant slalom. In 1984/85 he won eleven races in the World Cup (including seven slaloms and his first two victories in Super-G ) and was the first overall World Cup winner by a large margin, as well as first place in the giant slalom and slalom class. In 1985/86 he won the overall standings again, although he could only win one Super-G and two combinations .

The performance in slalom, Girardelli's once strongest discipline, subsided. Instead, he concentrated more on the faster disciplines (on December 7, 1985 in Val-d'Isère in his 125th World Cup race, he achieved his first podium in the downhill with second place ). At the Ski World Championships in 1987 in Crans-Montana , he won three medals, the gold in the combination was followed by two silver in the Super-G and in the giant slalom. At the very end of the 1986/87 season he scored three World Cup victories and finished the overall World Cup in second place. The 1987/88 season did not go as planned. The only countable result at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary was 9th place in the downhill. For this major event, however, it had to be approved by the IOC , whose executive board granted the start permit on December 10, 1987 (at the same time for Ingemar Stenmark and 16 other athletes). Only almost at the end of the season did he regain his usual level of performance with five podium places.

High performance from 1988/89

In the winter of 1988/89 Girardelli was again one of the best ski racers in the world. He won eight World Cup races, including the slalom on December 6th in Sestriere , which was a surprise because he had now slipped to 38th place in the discipline world rankings and had not won a slalom since March 23, 1985. In January, he won the "big" classics, the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel and the two Lauberhorn runs in Wengen. In all disciplines he was at the top of the podium at least once; he was the first man to do this in one season. That is why Girardelli, along with Pirmin Zurbriggen , Günther Mader , Kjetil André Aamodt and Bode Miller, belongs to the small group of male ski athletes who have won World Cup races in all five disciplines. At the 1989 World Ski Championships in Vail , he defended his world title in combination and won the bronze medal in slalom. With his victory in Whistler on February 26, 1989 , he was already the winner of the overall World Cup - for the third time - and he also secured the Downhill and Combined World Cup for the first time. He was awarded the Skieur d'Or for the first time in 1989 by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) , and in 1991 he received this award a second time.

In December 1989 Girardelli had a hard crash in the Super-G in Sestriere and - as it initially seemed - suffered a bruised back. However, a few weeks later this turned out to be a torn muscle fiber on the pelvic rim bone, which made an operation necessary. Because of the one-sided strain, he also had to have an operation on his left knee. He used the rehabilitation phase to acquire a helicopter license to fly .

First individual gold at the 1991 World Cup

In the winter of 1991/92 he was able to continue his winning streak: He won three World Cup races, the slalom gold medal at the 1991 Ski World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , and for the fourth time the overall World Cup as well as the World Cup rankings in slalom and combined.

The 1991/92 season was less successful with a single World Cup victory compared to the previous winter. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Girardelli narrowly missed the desired Olympic victory and finished second in both the Super-G and giant slalom. In the 1992/93 season Girardelli again proved to be the best ski racer in the world and won the overall World Cup for the fifth time with only three victories and despite a torn cruciate ligament . At the World Ski Championships in Morioka in 1993 , two more medals were added, silver in slalom and bronze in combination.

In the winter of 1993/94 it was only enough to win a Super-G. Without having won a single downhill run, he was in first place in the downhill ranking at the end of the season. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he was fourth in the Super-G and fifth in the downhill. In 1995 Girardelli was in poor health, but was able to win two World Cup combined rankings.

Last great success and resignation in 1997

He celebrated his last major success at the 1996 World Ski Championships in Sierra Nevada by winning the third combined world title. After another serious knee injury in December 1996, he decided to end his athletic career. He announced his resignation during the 1997 World Ski Championships in Sestriere on February 10, 1997.

further activities

After retiring from top sport, Girardelli became an entrepreneur and turned to tourism . His "Alpenhotel" on the Bödele above Dornbirn burned down partially in September 2001, and in January 2005 he sold the ruined fire. Girardelli initiated the construction of the Alpincenter in Bottrop , which opened in January 2001, and is the world's longest ski hall . After the company almost had to file for bankruptcy, he resigned as managing director in February 2004 and sold his shares to the Dutch hotel group Van der Valk .

Girardelli has been organizing ski events in various ski areas in Europe and also in Portillo in Chile since 2004 . In addition, he took a consulting position at the Bulgarian Ski Association and since then has also been promoting the Bansko and Vitoscha ski areas near the Bulgarian capital Sofia . Since 2005 he has been publishing his own children's ski fashion line, which bears the name Marc Girardelli Skiwear .

In 2017 Girardelli published the detective novel Departure in death together with the author Michaela Grünig . From the beginning of the 2017/18 season he worked as a co-commentator for Swiss television . However, the cooperation was ended on January 5, 2018 with immediate effect and by mutual agreement.

On December 17, 2018, Girardelli presented himself at a meeting at the Bulgarian Ministry of the Environment as the owner of 100% of the shares in the offshore company TAK Services Limited , which owns 87.8% of the capital of Julen AD . The company is the concessionaire for the ski slopes and ski lifts in Bansko and has been responsible for numerous environmental offenses in the Pirin National Park for more than ten years . The massive growth of the ski area has led to criticism from environmental organizations. Girardelli pointed out that the purchase price was "interesting" because there was a lot of negative background noise that forced the fund to sell.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Marc Girardelli has won the overall World Cup five times (1985, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993), plus ten other victories in discipline rankings.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1979/80 84. 3 - - - - 32. 3 - - - -
1980/81 26th 51 - - - - 23. 11 15th 40 - -
1981/82 6th 121 - - - - 3. 77 8th. 44 - -
1982/83 4th 168 - - - - 6th 52 7th 69 3. 47
1983/84 3. 222 - - - - 4th 92 1. 125 34. 5
1984/85 1. 262 19th 17th - - 1. 120 1. 125 - -
1985/86 1. 294 4th 76 3. 56 5. 57 11. 45 2. 60
1986/87 2. 190 10. 56 2. 65 5. 65 28. 10 - -
1987/88 5. 142 7th 59 4th 38 13. 30th 23. 15th - -
1988/89 1. 407 1. 139 5. 46 5. 66 3. 106 1. 50
1989/90 25th 64 - - 12. 23 15th 41 - - - -
1990/91 1. 242 28. 8th 10. 15th 3. 84 1. 110 1. 25th
1991/92 3. 996 13. 182 2. 296 7th 210 12. 228 11. 80
1992/93 1. 1379 6th 331 5. 216 3. 372 13. 160 1. 300
1993/94 2. 1007 1. 556 2. 275 19th 122 29 54 - -
1994/95 4th 744 24. 73 10. 111 18th 91 9. 269 1. 200
1995/96 22nd 326 47. 25th 51. 8th 23. 81 20th 112 2. 100
1996/97 115. 12 - - - - 49. 6th 58. 6th - -

World Cup victories

Marc Girardelli has won a total of 46 World Cup races (3 downhill runs, 9 Super-G, 7 giant slaloms, 16 slaloms, 11 combinations).

Departure
date place country
January 13, 1989   Kitzbühel      Austria     
January 20, 1989 Wengen Switzerland
January 21, 1989 Wengen Switzerland
Super G
date place country
17th December 1984 Madonna di Campiglio Italy
January 27, 1985 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
5th February 1986 Crans-Montana Switzerland
March 1, 1987 Furano Japan
March 15, 1987 Calgary Canada
February 26, 1989 Whistler Canada
December 8, 1991 Val d'Isère France
January 12, 1993 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria
January 23, 1994 Wengen Switzerland
combination
date place country
December 15, 1985 Alta Badia Italy
February 7, 1986 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria
January 15, 1989 Kitzbühel Austria
January 22, 1989 Wengen Switzerland
January 13, 1991 Kitzbühel Austria
January 10, 1993 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
January 17, 1993 Lech Austria
January 24, 1993 Veysonnaz Switzerland
January 15, 1995 Kitzbühel Austria
January 22, 1995 Wengen Switzerland
January 21, 1996 Veysonnaz Switzerland
Giant slalom
date place country
December 11, 1984 Sestriere Italy
March 10, 1985 Aspen United States
March 22, 1987 Sarajevo Yugoslavia
January 17, 1989 Adelboden Switzerland
January 15, 1991 Adelboden Switzerland
December 13, 1992 Alta Badia Italy
December 20, 1992 Kranjska Gora Slovenia
slalom
date place country
February 27, 1983 Gällivare Sweden
January 16, 1984 Parpan Switzerland
January 22, 1984 Kitzbühel Austria
5th February 1984 Borovets Bulgaria
March 18, 1984 Are Sweden
March 24, 1984 Oslo Norway
2nd December 1984 Sestriere Italy
4th January 1985 Bad Wiessee Germany
January 13, 1985 Kitzbühel Austria
January 21, 1985 Wengen Switzerland
February 16, 1985 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia
March 20, 1985 Park City United States
March 23, 1985 Heavenly Valley United States
December 6, 1988 Sestriere Italy
17th December 1988 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia
January 13, 1991 Kitzbühel Austria

Awards

source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protest against Girardelli . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 1, 1985, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ «Green light for Girardelli - and then record time!»; «Kleine Zeitung» Ktn issue No. 286 of December 11, 1987, page 74
  3. ↑ Gartner: "Nur Ausrutscher . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 7, 1988, p. 21 ( arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ As if you land on concrete , Der Spiegel 52/1989 of December 25, 1989.
  5. ↑ Marc Girardelli builds in Rebstein. St. Galler Tagblatt , July 7, 2009, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Girardelli flies out of his indoor ski area in Bottrop. Wirtschaftsblatt , February 7, 2004, archived from the original on January 28, 2016 ; Retrieved August 10, 2010 .
  7. ↑ What Marc Girardelli advises Maier. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , August 10, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Marc Girardelli's children's ski clothing. skiinfo.de, February 3, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Departure to death. emons-verlag.de, accessed on February 25, 2017 .
  10. ↑ SRF is entering the Olympic winter with two quartets. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, April 17, 2017, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; Retrieved May 3, 2017 . 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.skionline.ski
  11. ↑ SRF and Girardelli end cooperation. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 5, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Марк Жирардели беше обявен за собственик на "Юлен". Capital , December 17, 2018, accessed December 17, 2010 (Bulgarian).
  13. ↑ Marc Girardelli comes out as the owner of the ski area. derStandard.at , December 18, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Girardelli, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustenau , Vorarlberg