Patrick Ortlieb

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Patrick Ortlieb Alpine skiing
Patrick Ortlieb (2010)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 20th May 1967 (age 53)
place of birth Bregenz , Austria
size 189 cm
Weight 92 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society Arlberg Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 1999
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Albertville 1992 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Sierra Nevada 1996 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Jasná 1985 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1988
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 7. ( 1992/93 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. ( 1993/94 , 1994/95 ,
1995/96 )
 Super G World Cup 7. (1992/93)
 Combination World Cup 6. (1992/93)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 6th 9
 Super G 1 0 1
 

Patrick Ortlieb (born May 20, 1967 in Bregenz ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He became Olympic champion in 1992 and downhill world champion in 1996 . In addition, he has won four World Cup races and was Austrian champion six times. After his sporting career, he was a member of the Austrian National Council ( FPÖ ) from 1999 to 2002 .

Athletic career

Ortlieb did not start professional skiing until he was 13 years old and decided to start for Austria late. His father comes from Alsace and is French. At the beginning of the 1980s he was quickly promoted to the ÖSV junior team through the regional team of the Vorarlberg Ski Association ("VSV") . The downhill specialist celebrated his first major success at the 1985 Junior World Championships with the bronze medal in the downhill. Nevertheless, he was released from the ÖSV squad after the season and had to start again for the "VSV".

In the 1987/88 season Ortlieb made the jump back into the ÖSV team. After he had missed the qualification for the December downhill in Val-d'Isère , he managed that for the Kitzbühel replacement downhill in Bad Kleinkirchheim on January 16, where he finished 46th.
In the 1988/89 season he caught up with the world's best. On December 9th, 1988 he (start no. 53) finished fifth in the first descent from Val Gardena for the first time in the World Cup points, the day after he (no. 30) already reached second place in the second descent on the Saslong . In February he finished in the top ten again in Aspen .

He achieved three more top ten results in the 1989/90 season . At the end of January he had his first serious fall in Val-d'Isère , suffered a ruptured lateral and cruciate ligament and had to end the season prematurely. In the winter of 1990/91 he returned to the World Cup and at the beginning of December reached fifth place again in Val-d'Isère. With further points gains he qualified for the 1991 World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , where he came seventh downhill. With good results in the overseas races in March, he finished sixth in the Downhill World Cup. That winter he won his first Austrian championship title - five more followed.

Olympic victory in 1992

In the 1991/92 season Ortlieb drove three times to the podium and improved to fourth place in the Downhill World Cup, and in the overall classification he was tenth. The high point of winter and his career so far was the 1992 Winter Olympics . On the very demanding and winding downhill slope La face de Bellevarde in Val-d'Isère, Ortlieb was not one of the favorites as a good glider, but his best time with start number 1 was Not undercut by any other driver. Ultimately, the decision was still tight, because the Frenchman Franck Piccard , who started the race with starting number 23 , was only 5 hundredths of a second behind and Günther Mader , who was third , was only another 5 hundredths of a second behind. Because of this success he was named Austria's Sportsman of the Year in 1992.

In the 1992/93 season , Ortlieb was among the top three in two runs and also made it onto the podium for the first time in the Super-G. In this combination he achieved his best career results with sixth place in Lech and eighth place in Veysonnaz. He achieved his best result in the overall World Cup with seventh place, and seventh place in the Super G World Cup and sixth place in the combined ranking were his best results. Only in the Downhill World Cup did he fall a little behind with seventh place compared to previous years. At the 1993 World Championships in Morioka - Shizukuishi , Japan , he came in eighth downhill rank in difficult weather conditions.

After eight podium places so far, Ortlieb finally achieved his first World Cup victories in his sixth World Cup season. On December 18, 1993, he won the downhill run from Val Gardena, and celebrated his second victory on the Streif in Kitzbühel on January 15, 1994. This made him one of the favorites at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Norway , but couldn't win repeat and ended up only in fourth place. In the World Cup, with third place in the season finale in Vail, he secured third place in the downhill classification.

World champion title 1996

The 1994-95 season began Ortlieb with his third World Cup victory in the Super G in Tignes on December 11 - the first and only in this discipline. With two second and two third places he came back to third place in the Downhill World Cup. On December 16, 1995, the man from Vorarlberg celebrated his fourth and last World Cup victory in the downhill run from Val Gardena and, as in previous years, came third in the Downhill World Cup with two more podium places. Ortlieb celebrated the second major success of his career at the World Championship in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, which was postponed by a year . Before the Italian Kristian Ghedina and the French Luc Alphand , he became world champion in the downhill. With this title he ended an inglorious Austrian dry spell: for 14 years no red-white-red racer drove on a World Championship podium in the downhill.

From the 1996/97 season Ortlieb could no longer follow up on his previous achievements. On December 15, 1996 he reached his last podium with third place in the downhill of Val-d'Isère and fell back to 14th place in the Downhill World Cup. He was far from successfully defending his title at the 1997 World Cup and finished eighth. In the 1997/98 season Ortlieb drove only once into the top ten and did not qualify for the Olympic Games.

End of career due to injury

the next winter he reached a ninth place in the downhill from Val Gardena. On January 16, 1999, he fell on the Wengen descent , but got away with bruises. It was much more difficult for him to fall a few days later during a training run for the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel. After the Hausbergkante he lost control of his skis and fell almost unchecked into the safety fences. In the process, he suffered a debris fracture in his right thigh as well as a chipped hip socket and other injuries. Shortly thereafter, Ortlieb announced his retirement from ski racing.

In 2014, together with Mario Matt, he was made an honorary member of the Arlberg Ski Club .

Profession and Politics

After his sports career, Ortlieb was a member of the Austrian National Council for the FPÖ from October 29, 1999 to December 19, 2002 . In this he was a member of the teaching committee, the committee for sports affairs and the economic committee. He was also active as a substitute member of the Health Committee and the National Defense Committee for the duration of his mandate.

Due to the so-called "parking garage scandal" he was denied a further political career. In the early morning of March 27, 2001, Ortlieb drove with a friend in his car into the parking garage at Innsbruck airport . A little more than an hour later, the woman was found confused, disoriented and only scantily clad in the parking garage, whereupon Ortlieb was investigated on suspicion of a sexual offense. In June 2001, the Innsbruck Public Prosecutor's Office closed the preliminary proceedings against Patrick Ortlieb with legal force, as no evidence of a criminal act could be found.

On July 1, 2010, Ortlieb was elected to succeed Rolf Amann as President of the Vorarlberg Ski Association. In June 2019 it was announced that he would be succeeded by Walter Hleybana in this role.

Private

He lives with his wife and three children in Oberlech in Vorarlberg and runs the four-star Hotel Montana there with his family. His daughter Nina has been a member of the ÖSV squad since the 2013/14 season.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 1990/91 season : 6th downhill classification
  • 1991/92 season : 10th overall World Cup, 4th downhill ranking
  • 1992/93 season : 7th overall World Cup, 7th downhill classification, 7th Super-G classification, 6th combined classification
  • 1993/94 season : 3rd downhill classification
  • 1994/95 season : 3rd downhill classification, 9th Super-G classification
  • 1995/96 season : 3rd downhill classification
  • 20 podium places, including 4 victories:
date place country discipline
18th December 1993 Val Gardena Italy Departure
January 15, 1994 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
December 11, 1994 Tignes France Super G
December 16, 1995 Val Gardena Italy Departure

Junior World Championships

Austrian championships

Patrick Ortlieb was six times Austrian champion :

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Peter Müller is a favorite"; from column 2 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1988, p. 21 ( arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Box at the top left with an overview of the results: "Herrenabfahrt Kleinkirchheim" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1988, p. 18 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ "Assinger:" And today a victory! "" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 9, 1988, p. 29 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ «Ortlieb shows its teeth in Val Gardena» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 9, 1988, p. 30 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
  5. ↑ Mario Matt and Patrick Ortlieb appointed honorary members . Article on the Arlberg Ski Club website.
  6. ↑ Right-wing populist involved in sex affair. In: spiegel.de. April 2, 2001, accessed June 10, 2012 .
  7. ^ Proceedings against Ortlieb dropped. In: derStandard.at . June 8, 2001, Retrieved June 28, 2015 .
  8. ^ ORF Vorarlberg: Olympic champion Ortlieb is the new VSV president. Article dated July 2, 2010.
  9. ↑ Ortlieb retires as VSV president. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ "Ortlieb said goodbye" in "SKI AUSTRIA", from September 1, 2019, page 46, POS .: bottom left with title "Vorarlberg"
  11. ↑ Your hosts - Hotel Montana in Oberlech . montanaoberlech.at. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ortlieb, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz , Austria