Josef Stiegler

Josef Stiegler
nation	Austria
birthday	20th April 1937 (age 83)
place of birth	Lienz , Austria
size	178 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SC Lienz
status	resigned
End of career	1964
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Squaw Valley 1960 Giant slalom gold Innsbruck 1964 slalom bronze Innsbruck 1964 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Squaw Valley 1960 Giant slalom gold Innsbruck 1964 slalom bronze Innsbruck 1964 Giant slalom

Josef "Pepi" Stiegler (born April 20, 1937 in Lienz ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He was Olympic champion in 1964 and world champion in slalom at the same time .

Career

Stiegler was a photographer by profession. His mother ran a photo studio in Lienz, his father Josef was employed by the Austrian Post as a driver of public buses. He celebrated his first successes in skiing in the winter of 1957. He became Austrian junior champion in slalom and combined, won downhill and combined in Val Gardena and the Blauherd downhill in Zermatt . In the 1957/58 season he won a total of seven races, including downhill, slalom and the combination of Megève and the combination of Zermatt. The next winter he won the Megève slalom and came third on the Ganslernhang in Kitzbühel .

After he was mostly at the front only in FIS-B races, Stiegler succeeded on 9/10. January 1960 in Wengen also his first victory in the important races. With second place in downhill and slalom, he won the combination on the Lauberhorn . Shortly afterwards he was second in the Kitzbühel slalom and third in the combination.
At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , Stiegler won the silver medal in giant slalom behind Swiss Roger Staub on February 21 , although he was proclaimed the winner at short notice. In the slalom he was fifth, but with the 15th place in the downhill he just missed a combination medal in fourth.

In the winter of 1960/61, Stiegler won several important slalom races: He won in Wengen (January 15, where he also took second place in the combined) as well as in Megève (January 29), at the "World Championship dress rehearsal" in Chamonix ( February 26), in the slalom of Kranjska Gora on March 4, 1961 and at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren (March 12; here he also came second in combination).
In a world rankings published on March 16, he took second place in the overall standings behind Guy Périllat , he led the slalom list before Périllat.
In the next winter he could only win the Bad Wiessee slalom , in Kitzbühel he was third (January 21). The 1962 World Cup in Chamonix was also disappointing. In the slalom he only finished 20th, so he was not allowed to start in the giant slalom. In the slalom and in the combination of Megève he came second (February 4th).

In the 1962/63 season, Stiegler won none of the important races, but finished second in the slalom and the combination in Megève (January 27).
On January 6, 1964, he first took second place in the Hindelang slalom and the Wengen giant slalom on January 11, and then won the Spittal giant slalom .
He then celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . In the giant slalom he came third behind the French François Bonlieu and Karl Schranz , in the slalom he was Olympic champion and world champion in front of the two Americans Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga . There had been internal differences within the ÖSV about his line-up , which is why supervisor Rupert Zimmerebner and head coach Ernst Oberaigner announced their resignation shortly after the games.

The Austrian sports journalists voted him Austria's athlete of the year for his Olympic victory .

After the games, Stiegler ended his career. For a short time he worked as a men's trainer in the ÖSV , where his obligation was planned until 1966 and he was supposed to prepare the team for the World Championships in Chile (his appointment was made at the so-called international conference from June 19 to 21, 1964 in Badgastein ). But the East Tyrolean officially resigned from his position in Innsbruck on September 10, 1965; His plans were to go to the USA at the beginning of November , where he would hold the post of ski school director in Jackson Hole and he subsequently implemented this project and immigrated to the USA forever. He was involved in setting up a ski school in the ski resort of Jackson , Wyoming , which he ran until 1994. In 2001 he was inducted into the US National Ski Hall of Fame. His daughter Resi Stiegler also became a ski racer, as did his son Josef jun. ("Seppi").

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Squaw Valley 1960 : 2nd giant slalom, 5th slalom, 15th descent
• Innsbruck 1964 : 1st slalom, 3rd giant slalom

World championships

• Squaw Valley 1960 : 2nd giant slalom, 4th combination, 5th slalom, 15th descent
• Chamonix 1962 : 20th slalom
• Innsbruck 1964 : 1st slalom, 3rd giant slalom

Austrian championships

Stiegler was four times Austrian champion :

• Slalom: 1960 and 1961
• Giant slalom: 1963
• Combination: 1961

Further placements

• Downhill and combined runner-up on January 31, 1957 in Morzine
• Combination third on February 22, 1957 at the "Tre Funivio" in Sestriere
• Combination runner-up on March 17, 1957 at the Gornergrat Derby in Zermatt
• Downhill runner-up and giant slalom runner-up on 22/23 March 1957 in Zakopane
• 2nd place in the giant slalom in Morzine (January 21, 1957?)
• 3rd place in the Gornergrat descent in Zermatt on March 16, 1958
• Victory at the giant slalom in Mürren on March 18, 1958
• 2nd place in the overall ranking of the "three-peak ski race" in Arosa
• Slalom third on Hahnenkamm on January 18, 1959
• Downhill third, slalom winner and combination second in Megève on 23/24. January 1959
• Winner (ex aequo with Egon Zimmermann I) in the giant slalom on Zettersfeld for the «Golden Plow of the City of Lienz»
• In the “three-piste or Toni Mark race 1962” he came second on January 25th in Saalbach and fourth in the slalom on January 27th in Zell am See

Awards

• Austria's athlete of the year 1964
• Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria 1996

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 435-436.
• From Großglockner to Klammer-Stich: 100 years of skiing in Carinthia. Pages 20 to 23, Josef Pepi Stiegler: The course of life, Carinthia Verlag 2007, publisher Landesschiverband & Kleine Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2

Web links

Commons : Josef Stiegler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Josef Stiegler in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Josef Stiegler in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Josef Stiegler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1. Bogner, 2. Stiegler, 3. Zimmermann 2 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 10, 1960, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ «30. Lauberhorn race in Wengen not a fully valid pre-Olympic test ”and“ Fog and snow falsified the downhill race ”; “Sport Zürich”, No. 4 of 11.1.1960, pages 1 and 2.
3. ↑ Just don't get cocky now! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ "Three times Austrian victory in slalom"; “Sport Zürich”, No. 4 from January 11, 1960, page 3.
5. ^ "The end of Austrian domination?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 19, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ^ "Made to measure Olympic champion: Roger Staub" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1960, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ «The general attack by the Austrians failed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 17, 1961, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
8. ↑ "Austria's best Torläufer ...» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1961, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ "Stiegler is the best slalom runner" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 28, 1961, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
10. ^ "Another victory for Stiegler" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1961, p. 31 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
11. ↑ "Another slalom success for Stiegler" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 14, 1961, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
12. ↑ "Guy Périllat and Heidi Biebl at the top" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 17, 1961, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
13. ^ "The end of the French complex" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 23, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
14. ^ «Ernst Falch drove a perfect slalom» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 6, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
15. ^ "Egon Zimmermann's second victory" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 29, 1963, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
16. ^ Hindelang: "Austria without victory" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
17. ^ "Egon Zimmermann's perfect race" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1964, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
18. ↑ Ski supervisor: "We've had enough of it!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
19. ^ "Pepi Stiegler - Sportsman of the Year" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
20. ↑ Stiegler until 1966 trainer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1964, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
21. ^ "Stiegler no longer an ÖSV trainer. For 2 to 3 years after the USA "in" Neue Zeit Klagenfurt "No. 209 of September 11, 1965, page 8, columns 3 and 4 (almost at the bottom)
22. ↑ Stiegler again second . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 1, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
23. ↑ Ski wins in Sestriere and St. Moritz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
24. ↑ As always: Toni Sailer wins everything . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 19, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
25. ↑ As always: An Austrian ski victory . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 23, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
26. ↑ Column 1 / middle: «In a few lines» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
27. ↑ Toni Mark and Erika Netzer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 18, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
28. ↑ Stiegler before Tritscher and Mark . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 19, 1958, p. 18 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
29. ^ Result block under the title "In a few lines" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1958, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
30. ↑ Molterer's victory a triumph of nerve power . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
31. ↑ Molterer and Leitner win . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 24, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
32. ↑ Molterer and Leitner won the combination . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1959, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
33. ↑ Stiegler and Zimmermann I in the dead race . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1960, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
34. ↑ "Stiegler at Toni Mark Race" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
35. ^ "Austrian double success in Saalbach" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
36. ↑ «Stiegler unlucky» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 28, 1962, p. 32 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).