Nicola Spit

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Nicola Spit Alpine skiing
Nicola Spit
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 29th July 1958 (age 62)
place of birth Innsbruck , Austria
size 160 cm
Weight 50 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Mayrhofen Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 1981
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 16, 1973
 Overall World Cup 12. ( 1975/76 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (1975/76)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 22. ( 1974/75 )
 Slalom World Cup 28th (1974/75)
 Combination World Cup 11. (1975/76)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 2 2
 

Nicola Spieß, married Werdenigg, (born July 29, 1958 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She celebrated her greatest skiing successes in the downhill . She started in the Ski World Cup from 1973 to 1979 and achieved four podium places. In 1975 she became Austrian champion and at the 1976 Winter Olympics she finished fourth in downhill skiing.

Nicola Werdenigg (-Spieß) is director of the non-profit association #WeTogether, which she co-founded in January 2018, for the prevention of abuse of power in sport. She was politically committed to the Pilz list in the 2017 National Council elections . She ran an online communication agency until summer 2018. She publishes the ski magazine Kunstpiste , organizes ski workshops, offers movement coaching and blogs in various media.

biography

As the daughter of Ernst Spieß and Erika Mahringer , Nicola Spieß, like her brother Uli Spieß , started skiing at an early age. As a 14-year-old she was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association and competed in her first World Cup race on January 16, 1973 . On January 4, 1975, the then 16-year-old won her first World Cup points in eighth place in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen slalom .

She achieved two more top ten results in the descent of the gold key race from Schruns and in the giant slalom in Sarajevo . In the same winter she also became Austrian champion in the downhill.

1976 Winter Olympics

In the 1975/76 season , Spieß was able to finish a World Cup race on the podium for the first time. In the first descent from Meiringen - Hasliberg she took second place behind her team colleague Brigitte Totschnig , the next day she came third in the second descent. After these good performances, the Tyrolean was also able to take part in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . At the Olympic downhill run in Axamer Lizum , she narrowly missed the podium and finished fourth.

In the slalom on February 11th she had start no. 35 after the first run, she finished 24th, but started sick, which is why she did not start in the second run. In the Downhill World Cup she reached 3rd place at the end of the season, which, like 12th place in the overall World Cup, represents her best career result.

In December 1976, Spieß took the podium again in the two downhill runs from Zell am See and came in sixth place in the downhill classification with four other top ten results in the 1976/77 season . After graduating from the Stams Ski School in 1977, she began studying sports science at the University of Innsbruck . As a result, she did not achieve her previous results in the next two years and only finished once in the points.

Due to her participation in the 1979 Academic Championships (she should actually have started in a European Cup race) she was banned from the ÖSV for three months. This suspension was subsequently revised at the end of the season, but it lost important points.

Retired in 1981

The move to another nation was not made possible for her by the ÖSV and she finally ended her career in 1981.

As a qualified ski instructor and ski guide, she has developed her own teaching methods based on bioenergetic concepts in her ski school. She is considered a carving pioneer . Together with her husband Erwin Werdenigg, she founded the ski company "edelwiser" in Vienna in 2004, which was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Multimedia & e-Business in 2007 .

Nicola Werdenigg was a candidate for the Peter Pilz list in the 2017 National Council election in Austria .

Abuse allegations 2017

After the Weinstein scandal and the outing initiative #MeToo, Nicola Werdenigg reported in an interview in the newspaper Der Standard on November 20, 2017 of widespread sexual violence and systematic abuse of power in the area of ​​Austrian skiing during her active time by "trainers, Supervisors, colleagues and service people “against and towards women.

She herself was raped by a teammate and another man at the age of 16 and, like many other racers, suffered from bulimia for years . She would have kept quiet about it out of shame. She had finished with the incidents, but had to talk about what she had experienced in order to “give young people the strength to communicate in the event of an incident”.

With reference to Werdenigg, Helen Scott-Smith (* 1958), former British skier and now sports journalist, in the Standard on December 7, 2017, also outed - in 1993 in Aspen by an Austrian ski trainer - that she had been raped and said "Many [women] have gone through a lot more than me ”. In December 2018, the statements by Werdenigg and other victims of abuse were confirmed by a Tyrolean expert commission.

Private

Nicola Spieß married Erwin Werdenigg in 1984 and had three children from 1985 to 1989 - a son and two daughters. Her husband died in 2016. She lives with her family in Vienna.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 3rd place in the Downhill World Cup 1975/76
  • 4 podium places

National championships

Awards

Web links

Commons : Nicola Spieß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ #WeTogether - Institute for the Prevention of Abuse of Power in Sport.
  2. ↑ The art slope. The ski magazine with the spirit of curves - since 2000.
  3. ↑ Philip Bauer: Nicola Werdenigg: There were attacks. From trainers, supervisors, colleagues. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  4. ^ First allegations in domestic skiing. “You thought that was normal”. At: ORF.at. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Olympic fourth in Werdenigg. Former top skier talks about abuse in skiing. At: Spiegel.de. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  6. ^ According to Werdenigg: journalist reports on rape. At: ORF.at. December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ Fritz Neumann: Abuse in skiing: “Trainers divided the 15 to 20 year old girls”. At: derStandard.at. December 7, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Steffen Arora: Expert commission confirms Werdenigg and other victims of abuse. At: derStandard.at. December 3, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ Expert Commission: Abuses in Tyrol. ( Memento from December 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Report in ZIB magazine from December 4, 2018.
  10. ↑ skinicola> About. At: facebook.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  11. ↑ Multimedia & e-Business State Prize 2007 awarded. At: horizont.at. September 26, 2007, accessed March 25, 2019.
  12. ↑ Women's Ring Prize 2018 for Kazuko Kurosaki (Aiko), Ingrid Nikolay-Leitner and Nicola Werdenigg. At: Frauenring.at. April 27, 2018, accessed March 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ This year, the Ute Bock Prize for moral courage goes to Nicola Werdenigg. . At: derStandard.at. March 20, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Spit, Nicola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werdenigg, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria