Reinhard Tritscher

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Reinhard Tritscher Alpine skiing
Reinhard Tritscher in January 2009.
Reinhard Tritscher (2009)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday August 5, 1946
place of birth Ramsau am Dachstein , Austria
date of death 20th September 2018
Place of death Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society WSV Ramsau am Dachstein
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 31, 1968
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 3. ( 1968/69 )
 Downhill World Cup 7. ( 1972/73 , 1973/74 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (1968/69)
 Slalom World Cup 6. (1968/69)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 0 1
 Giant slalom 2 2 1
 slalom 1 0 0
 

Reinhard Tritscher (born August 5, 1946 in Ramsau am Dachstein ; † September 20, 2018 there ) was an Austrian ski racer . He won four world cup races and finished eighth in the giant slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics .

biography

The Ramsauer became Austrian youth champion in 1964. 1968 Tritscher was Austrian champion in giant slalom and subsequently one of the few runners of the then existing in all disciplines World Cup victories achieved: In 1969, he became the first Styrian Skiweltcupsieger the slalom of Wengen , the same year the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora and Squaw Valley . In addition, he was third in the overall World Cup and second in the Giant Slalom World Cup in 1969 . In 1972, with the high starting number 45, he surprisingly won the descent from Val-d'Isère , which means that the winners of the races at that time - after Piero Gros' giant slalom victory - wore this high number twice.

Tritscher suffered three broken legs in 1969, 1974 and 1975. The injury in 1969, which led to a slump in his career, was particularly serious: Like his teammate Alfred Matt, he had to take a complete break from the 1970 World Cup due to the serious injury. After that, the former world-class slalom and giant slalom runner switched more and more to the speed discipline of downhill in addition to the then still far and fast giant slalom. In the slalom he hardly achieved any top placements after 1969/70. In 1975 he was again Austrian champion in alpine combination . The third broken leg on November 11, 1975 during downhill training in Hintertux (an open fracture in the area of ​​the right ankle; Tritscher was flown to the Innsbruck clinic) was synonymous with the end of active sport as a member of the Austrian national team, which he had from 1967 to 1975 had listened to.

Reinhard Tritscher achieved 36 top ten placements in the Ski World Cup and was eighth in the giant slalom at the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo . After his career in the World Cup, he won several national and international senior titles in ski racing.

Since 1972 Tritscher has run a bed and breakfast in Ramsau with his wife Helma. He was a certified ski instructor and ski guide and worked as a commercial clerk until his retirement. He was the father of two sons, Patrick and Elmar.

On September 20, 2018, he suffered fatal injuries in an alpine accident on the Scheichenspitze .

successes

Olympic games

World cup

World Cup ratings:

A total of eight podium finishes, including four wins:

date place country discipline
January 12, 1969 Wengen Switzerland slalom
16th February 1969 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia Giant slalom
March 1, 1969 Squaw Valley United States Giant slalom
December 10, 1972 Val d'Isère France Departure

Austrian championships

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Tritscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ex-racer Reinhard Tritscher had a fatal accident on the Dachstein. In: kleinezeitung.at. September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  2. a b Ski legend Reinhard Tritscher crashed - dead. In: steiermark.orf.at. September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  3. Taken at the grain. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 16, 1972, accessed on March 20, 2015 .
  4. Column 1, below: "Tritscher fails" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 13, 1975, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ Ski legend Reinhard Tritscher had a fatal accident. In: sport.oe24.at. September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .