Olga Pall
Olga Pall | |||||||||||||
nation | Austria | ||||||||||||
birthday | 3rd December 1947 (age 72) | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Göstling an der Ybbs , Austria | ||||||||||||
size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||
End of career | 1970 | ||||||||||||
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Olga Pall (born December 3, 1947 in Göstling an der Ybbs , Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She became Olympic champion in 1968 and also world champion in downhill . In the same year she also won the Downhill World Cup with the French Isabelle Mir, tied on points. In addition, she was Austrian champion in this discipline in 1968 and 1969 .
biography
Olga Pall was born in Lower Austria, moved with her family at the age of three to Bischofshofen and a little later to Solbad Hall in Tirol . Her youngest sister Elisabeth was also a ski racer.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Pall achieved first successes in school and youth races. In 1965 she celebrated her first significant victory in the downhill from Madonna di Campiglio , a year later she came second in the combined combination of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . In 1966 she was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association . In the first World Cup season in 1967 she achieved sixth place as the best result in the descent of the gold key race in Schruns . She had greater success in races outside of the World Cup, where she won the giant slalom in Zürs and came second in the giant slalom in Innsbruck .
In the winter of 1968 , Pall also became a top runner in the World Cup and celebrated her first World Cup victory in the downhill run of the Silberkrugrennen in Bad Gastein on January 17th (this was also the first downhill victory for the ÖSV women in the World Cup). The high point of her career was the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . Pall was counted among the favorites in the downhill run, but the international specialist press tipped off Isabelle Mir from France . She was in the lead after her run, but 20-year-old Pall was able to beat her by almost half a second, becoming Olympic champion and world champion at the same time. In the giant slalom she then reached fifth place and ninth in slalom, placing her fifth in the combined ranking, which is only counted as a world championship competition. With two World Cup victories (the Olympic competitions were also part of the World Cup) and a second place, Pall won the Downhill World Cup in 1968 with the same number of points as Isabelle Mir, and in the overall ranking she was eighth. In addition, she was Austrian downhill champion. Because of her success, she was voted Austria's Sportswoman of the Year in 1968 .
Together with her sister Liesl, she was the victim of a traffic accident on April 4, 1968 in the Heavenly Mountain Resort ; Both were hit by a minibus walking on the sidewalk. Liesl suffered broken legs while Olga suffered a collateral ligament tear and a wound on the head.
At the beginning of January 1969, Pall came on the podium for the only time in a World Cup giant slalom, celebrated her next World Cup victory on January 31 in the downhill of the Arlberg-Kandahar race and came third in the Downhill World Cup in the 1968/69 season . She was able to successfully defend her Austrian championship title. In the 1969/70 season, however , their performances fell significantly, the fifth place in the downhill from Bad Gastein was their only top ten result. At the 1970 World Cup in Val Gardena , she only came in 13th downhill rank. At the end of winter, Pall announced her retirement from active ski racing.
Olga Pall then completed training as a physiotherapist and remained closely connected to skiing. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and Sarajevo in 1984, she worked as a supervisor for the Austrian team. From 1990 to 2002 she was Vice President of the Austrian Ski Association and later she was made Honorary President. Her husband Ernst Scartezzini was also active as an active athlete and sports official for many years. From 1986 to 2004 he was President of the Tyrolean Ski Association, in 2005 he was also appointed one of the Honorary Presidents of the ÖSV.
successes
winter Olympics
- Grenoble 1968 : 1st descent, 5th giant slalom, 9th slalom
World championships
- Grenoble 1968 : 1st descent, 5th giant slalom, 5th combination, 9th slalom
- Val Gardena 1970 : 13th descent
World Cup ratings
Olga Pall once won the downhill discipline.
season | total | Departure | Giant slalom | slalom | ||||
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space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
1967 | 19th | 15th | 12. | 6th | 15th | 4th | 21st | 5 |
1968 | 8th. | 89 | 1. | 70 | 11. | 16 | 29 | 3 |
1968/69 | 12. | 61 | 3. | 36 | 12. | 23 | 23. | 2 |
1969/70 | 29 | 8th | 11. | 8th | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
Pall achieved a total of 5 podiums, including 3 wins:
date | place | country | discipline |
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January 17, 1968 | Bad Gastein | Austria | Departure |
February 10, 1968 | Grenoble | France | Departure |
January 31, 1969 | St. Anton am Arlberg | Austria | Departure |
Austrian championships
Awards
- 1968: Austrian Sportswoman of the Year - the election took place on December 23, 1968, the award took place on October 17, 1969 at the 13th Sports Press Festival in the Wiener Stadthalle.
- 1996: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 309-310.
Web links
- Olga Pall in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Olga Pall in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Olga Pall in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Olga Pall on the website of the Austrian Olympic Museum
- Entry on Olga Pall in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Wien from April 6, 1968, page 12
- ↑ «The weaker sex has triumphed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 24, 1968, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Columns 1 to 3. Middle: "Cheers for athletes of the year 1968" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 19, 1969, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pall, Olga |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Göstling an der Ybbs , Austria |