Steve Podborski

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Steve Podborski Alpine skiing
Steve Podborski (2010)
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 25th July 1957 (age 63)
place of birth Toronto , Canada
Career
discipline Departure
status resigned
End of career 1984
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Lake Placid 1980 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 8th
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 1981/82 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. ( 1981/82 )
 Combination World Cup 11. ( 1975/76 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 8th 5 7th
 

Steve Podborski (born July 25, 1957 in Don Mills , a suburb of Toronto ) is a retired Canadian ski racer. He was one of the Crazy Canucks ("crazy Canadians"), a group of Canadian skiers who ended the dominance of the Europeans in the 1970s and early 1980s and who were best known for their breakneck but very successful skiing style.

biography

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , Podborski won the bronze medal in the downhill, behind the two Austrians Leonhard Stock and Peter Wirnsberger . He also won a total of eight World Cup runs, including the famous Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel twice , and was able to place in the top 10 a further 34 times. His first victory on January 6, 1979 in Morzine came about after the disqualification of his compatriot Ken Read , who had worn a racing suit that did not comply with the regulations. In the 1981/82 season he won the Downhill World Cup ; like the Swiss Peter Müller, he had 115 points and 3 wins, but obviously the higher number of cancellation points (33 compared to 17) was the decisive factor for the Canadian that he won this discipline. Podborski won three Canadian championship titles (giant slalom 1977, downhill 1983 and 1984).

In 1982 he received the Order of Canada , the highest honor in his country for civilians. Today Podborski is a member of the Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , where he is responsible for international relations. Podborski is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Steve Podborski won the downhill discipline once.

season total Departure combination
space Points space Points space Points
1974/75 52. 4th - - - -
1975/76 43. 10 22nd 4th 11. 6th
1977/78 31. 18th 15th 18th - -
1978/79 36. 47 10. 52 - -
1979/80 30th 35 9. 35 - -
1980/81 9. 110 2. 110 - -
1981/82 8th. 115 1. 115 - -
1982/83 30th 63 11. 63 - -
1983/84 21st 76 5. 76 - -

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
January 6, 1979 Morzine France Departure
December 21, 1980 St. Moritz Switzerland Departure
January 10, 1981 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
17th January 1981 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
December 21, 1981 Crans-Montana Switzerland Departure
January 16, 1982 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
February 13, 1982 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
20th January 1984 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Brackets: " Things are looking up!" Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 8, 1979, accessed January 22, 2016 .
  2. Morzine: Read's victory denied. Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 9, 1979, accessed January 22, 2016 .