Reinhold Durnthaler

Reinhold Durnthaler
nation	Austria
birthday	November 29, 1942
place of birth	Waiern
date of death	23 October 2017
Place of death	Feldkirchen in Carinthia
Career
discipline	Two and four-man bobsleigh
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × Bobsleigh World Championships 1 × 0 × 2 × European bobsleigh championships 3 × 1 × 0 ×  winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1964 Four-man bobsleigh silver Grenoble 1968 Four-man bobsleigh  Luge World Championships bronze 1963 Igls Four-man bobsleigh gold 1967 L'Alpe d'Huez Two-seater bronze 1975 Two-seater  European Luge Championships gold 1965 Two-man bobsleigh gold 1966 Two-man bobsleigh silver 1967 Four-man bobsleigh gold 1969 Two-man bobsleigh

Reinhold Durnthaler (born November 29, 1942 in Waiern ; † October 23, 2017 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia ) was an Austrian bobsledder .

Career

Durnthaler won his first international medal in 1963 when he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh World Championships in Igls with bobsleigh pilot Erwin Thaler and with Adolf Koxeder and Josef Nairz . In 1964, Thaler, Durnthaler, Koxeder and Nairz won the silver medal behind the four-man bobsleigh run by Canadian Victor Emery at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , and Durnthaler and bobsleigh driver Franz Isser took ninth place in the two-man bobsleigh . In 1965 and 1966 Thaler and Koxeder were European champions in the two-man bobsleigh, in 1967 Erwin Thaler won with Reinhold Durnthaler in Igls. This duo also won the title at the 1967 Bobsleigh World Cup in L'Alpe d'Huez. In 1967 Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler, Herbert Gruber and Adolf Koxeder won the silver medal in the four-bobsleigh behind the Romanian four at the European Championships in Igls . With Josef Eder for Koxeder, the four-man bobsleigh, controlled by Thaler , also won silver at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , where the Italian Eugenio Monti's bobsleigh won . In 1968, Thaler and Durnthaler took fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh. Thaler and Durnthaler won their last international medal in Cervinia in 1969 when they were once again European champions in the two-man bobsleigh.

Durnthaler was a doctor of dentistry. In 1996 he received the Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Web links

• Reinhold Durnthaler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Carinthian ex-world champion died at the age of 74 on kleinezeitung.at (accessed on February 3, 2018)

Footnotes

1. ↑ World champion in the four-man bobsleigh
2. ↑ European champion in the two-man bobsleigh
3. ↑ World champion in the two-man bobsleigh
4. ↑ European champion in the four-man bobsleigh
5. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . (accessed on February 3, 2018)