Max Bolkart
Max Bolkart 
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Max Bolkart in Oberstdorf |
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| birthday | July 29, 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Oberstdorf , German Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Restaurateur | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | SC Oberstdorf | |||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 1. ( 1959/60 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Max Bolkart (born July 29, 1932 in Oberstdorf ) is a former German ski jumper who started for the FRG and whose greatest success was winning the Four Hills Tournament in 1960.
Life
At a young age he longed to go into alpine ski races . Because of his slim stature, nothing came of it. In 1947, Max Bolkart heard that ski jumpers were wanted. Spurred on by ambition and not afraid of the speed on the approach, he expressed interest. He was taken and worked his way up to the elite of ski jumpers. Its heyday were the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s.
He managed to become German ski jumping champion four times: in 1956, 1957, 1958 and again in 1964. Bolkart was also a serious contender for top places at the Winter Olympics . In 1956 he was fourth in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In Squaw Valley he landed on rank 6 in the results list in 1960 and at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1962 in Zakopane he came on rank 9 on the large hill on February 25.
The highlight of his sporting career is the victory in the international Four Hills Tournament in 1959/60 , in which he won all competitions with the exception of Bischofshofen . He was the first West German winner in this competition. During the Cold War, the spectators were very proud of the Oberstdorfer, as he had managed to interrupt the series of touring victories of the then dominant GDR ski jumper Helmut Recknagel . Due to the political flag dispute , however, neither the jumpers from the GDR nor those from Poland, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia took part in this tour; the Norwegians and Finns were absent due to preparation for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Today Max Bolkart is involved in the family business, the Hotel "Freiberg" in Oberstdorf.
More Achievements
- 3rd place in ski flying on the Kulm on March 4, 1962
Honors
- In 2002, Federal President Johannes Rau awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf .
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (May 6, 1977)
Web links
- Max Bolkart in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Max Bolkart in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Max Bolkart in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ No ski jumper has won so well . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ About us. In: das-freiberg.de. July 13, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
- ↑ The world record jumper Lesser ... In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 6, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Database of the bearers of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Federal President's Office
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| SURNAME | Bolkart, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberstdorf , German Empire |