Max Golser

Max Golser
nation	Austria
birthday	May 4th 1940
place of birth	Schwaz ,  German Empire
Career
society	WSV Vomp
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	26. ( 1966/67 )

Max Golser (born May 4, 1940 in Schwaz , † April 23, 2019 ) is a former Austrian ski jumper and ski jumping trainer. In the 1960s and early 1970s he was one of the best ski jumpers in Austria. He took part in a total of four times in the Olympic Winter Games and Nordic World Ski Championships , where his best result was 19th place on the large hill at the 1966 World Championships . In international FIS jumping he achieved several victories and podium places; at the Four Hills Tournament he achieved several top 10 results and the best overall result was 26th place in 1966/67 . After his active career, he was head coach of the Austrian ski jumpers in the 1970s and 1980s and then until 1996 ski jumping coach of the German Nordic combined athletes .

Career

Golser started early with the winter sports club of his hometown Vomp with the ski jumping and got through the Tyrolean national team in the team of the Austrian ski association . In the winter of 1960/61 he started the Four Hills Tournament for the first time , but only achieved placements just under the best 50. He got his first top results in the winter of 1962/63 when he finished ninth in Bischofshofen in the fourth competition of the Four Hills Tournament in 1962/63 or the reached seventh place in ski flying in Planica . In the mid-1960s, he made it to the top of the national team. He celebrated his first significant victory in 1965 on the Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen and in the same year he achieved his best individual result in the Four Hills Tournament with fifth place in Bischofshofen . After these achievements, he was able to compete for the first time in a world championship in 1966 and took 19th place on the large hill and 21st place on the normal hill at Holmenkollen in Oslo .

At the Four Hills Tournament 1966/67 Golser achieved his best overall result on the tour with 26th place. A few weeks later he reached third place on the large hill at Holmenkollen behind Bjørn Wirkola and Bent Tomtum . At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he came 22nd on the large hill and 36th on the normal hill but did not get any top placements. In the next few years his greatest international success was his victory on the normal hill in Kuopio in 1970. At the World Championships in the High Tatras in the same year he only achieved 36th place on the large hill and 45th place on the normal hill. In 1971 Golser was Austrian runner-up behind Reinhold Bachler , and in 1967 he had already achieved third place in the Austrian championship. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Golser jumped 36th on the normal hill and 43rd on the large hill. His last major event as an active ski jumper was the 1972 ski flying world championship in Planica, where he finished 30th.

Following his active career, Golser worked as a ski jumping trainer. At first he was head coach of the Austrian ski jumpers for two years until Baldur Preiml replaced him in this position. After Preiml's resignation, Golser was again Austrian head coach until 1984. He then moved to the German Ski Association , where he was the Nordic combined ski jumping coach for twelve years. Due to illness, he had to quit his coaching activity in 1996.

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 100f

Web links

• Max Golser in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Max Golser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )