Otto Leodolter

Otto Leodolter
nation	Austria
birthday	March 18, 1936
place of birth	Mariazell ,  Austria
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1960 Squaw Valley Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	2. ( 1960/61 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 3 2

Otto Leodolter (born March 18, 1936 in Mariazell ) is a former Austrian ski jumper .

Career

Otto Leodolter's autograph in 1960

In 1952 Leodolter took first place in the Styrian championships in the relay race, from 1954 Leodolter started for SC Zell am See , from 1954 to 1964 he was a member of the Austrian national team .

Leodolter made his international debut at the Four Hills Tournament 1954/55 with a 33rd place in Innsbruck . Shortly afterwards he was tenth in Bischofshofen . In the Four Hills Tournament 1955/56 he started with the 31st place in Oberstdorf and 19th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , before he finished the tour in eighth place overall after a 15th place in Innsbruck. He thus qualified for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . The 19-year-old finished jumping from the normal hill with the same points as Józef Huczek from Poland in 30th place. On the second day of competition (March 10, 1956) during the ski flying week on the Kulm , he came in sixth.

At the Four Hills Tournament in 1957/58 he was able to improve again and after good results reached sixth place overall. He achieved this placement a year later at the Four Hills Tournament in 1958/59 . A year later, at the Four Hills Tournament in 1959/60 , he was second on the podium twice in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen and ended up third in the overall standings. A few weeks later Leodolter achieved by winning the bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games 1960 in Squaw Valley in jumping from the normal hill on February 18, 1960. He was the first medalist at the Olympic Winter Games for Austria in this discipline.

In December 1960 he started the Four Hills Tournament 1960/61 with a third place in Oberstdorf . In Garmisch he narrowly missed the podium in fourth place, but was again able to achieve a place in the top three in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen. In the end he was in second place in the overall standings behind the German Helmut Recknagel . It was his most successful tour, which he could not build on in the episode. He made his last tour in the 1963/64 season.

At his third Olympic Games, the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, he clearly missed a repeat of his success from 1960 as 28th on the normal hill and 17th on the large hill. It was also the last international competition of his career.

In 1999 Leodolter was invited to the Holmenkollen Games, at a reception with King Harald he was informed that he had set a hill record of 71.5 meters in 1959.

After his retirement, Leodolter devoted himself extensively to his great hobby, gliding. He has received numerous awards for his flying achievements.

Leodolter's son Otto Leodolter junior became director of the Upper Austria State Ski Association in 2012.

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1955/56	8th.	786
1957/58	6th	847
1958/59	6th	838
1959/60	3.	871
1960/61	2.	874

Austrian championships

• Title 1958
• Title 1959 in Wörgl
• 3rd place on January 24th, 1960 in Saalfelden (but held on the Köhlergraberschanze in Zell am See )
• Title 1961 in Lienz
• Title 1962 in Bad Goisern

Other placements

• Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 in Zakopane :

15th place normal hill on February 21st (206.1 points)

Rank 16 large hill on February 27th (211.2 points)

• Victory in Willingen on February 23, 1958
• 3rd place at Holmenkollen on March 16, 1958
• Victory in Lahti on March 11, 1962

Awards

In 1996 he was awarded the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Otto Leodolter in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Otto Leodolter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo from 1958 in the Europeana
• http://www.wsv-mariazell.at/sites/default/files/pdf/100_Jahre_WSV_Mariazell.pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.wsv-mariazell.at/sites/default/files/pdf/100_Jahre_WSV_Mariazell.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.neuesland.at/archiv/years/2005/46/NELA_LAND_1118_28_X.pdf
3. ↑ Snow and wind affect ski flying . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 11, 1956, p. 32 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Joachim Glaser: Treasure Chest - a hodgepodge of Salzburg sport. SN-Verlag; 2017; P. 49
5. ↑ Joachim Glaser: Treasure Chest - a hodgepodge of Salzburg sport. SN-Verlag; 2017; P. 49
6. ↑ New Nordic Sports Director in the State Ski Association . State Ski Association of Upper Austria. December 13, 2012. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 9, 2013. 
7. ↑ Austria's ski team for Squaw Valley - subtitles: Stiegler, Oberaigner, Egger . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
8. ↑ A Norwegian beats the world's elite . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ No ski jumper has won so well . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
10. ↑ Otto Leodolter and Willie Egger dominated . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
11. ↑ Otto Leodolter is one of the world's elite . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
12. ↑ Leodolter won in Lahti . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 13, 1962, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).