Richard Kroell

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Richard Kroell Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday March 15, 1968
place of birth Schwaz , Austria
date of death 5th October 1996
Place of death Stumm , Austria
Career
discipline Giant slalom , Super-G
society SV Ginzling / Dornauberg
End of career 5th October 1996
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986 slalom
silver Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986 combination
bronze Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 20th ( 1994/95 )
 Super G World Cup 4. (1994/95)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 4. ( 1989/90 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 1 1 0
 Giant slalom 2 0 2
 

Richard Kröll (born March 15, 1968 in Schwaz ; † October 5, 1996 in Stumm ) was an Austrian ski racer . He specialized in giant slalom and Super-G , won three races in the World Cup , several races in the European Cup , three medals at the Junior World Championship in 1986 and was three times Austrian champion . He died at the age of 28 in a car accident in the Zillertal .

biography

Kröll got into skiing and the ski club in his hometown Ginzling through his uncle . At the end of the 1970s, he made the jump to the Tyrolean junior squad, and in 1984 he joined the squad of the Austrian Ski Association . Kröll became Austrian youth champion in giant slalom in 1985 and in the same year took sixth place in giant slalom at his first junior world championship . At the next Junior World Championships in Bad Kleinkirchheim in 1986 , he won two silver medals in slalom and in combination as well as the bronze medal in giant slalom. In the following years he achieved success in the European Cup , so he achieved third place in the Super-G classification and eighth place in the overall European Cup in the 1987/88 season . In the same year he took part in a World Cup race for the first time, and on his debut he also won the first World Cup point on March 25, 1988 with 15th place in the final giant slalom in Saalbach-Hinterglemm .

After Kröll had again won a World Cup point as 15th in the giant slalom in Kirchberg in Tyrol in the 1988/89 season , he surprisingly won the two giant slaloms in Alta Badia and Veysonnaz in January 1990 . In the last giant slalom of the 1989/90 season , he finished third again in Veysonnaz, another podium, making him fourth in the giant slalom World Cup. In the same winter , Kröll was also Austrian champion in giant slalom. Two more titles in Super-G followed in 1991 and 1996 .

After the season that was unexpectedly successful for him, Kröll had to take a break for most of the winter of 1990/91 due to injury. In the World Cup he remained without points, even in 1991/92, when World Cup points were awarded for the first time for the best 30 and no longer only for the best 15, as before, he could only score twice. He achieved better results in these years in the European Cup, where he finished fourth in 1990/91 and fifth in the Super-G ranking in 1991/92 . At the beginning of the 1992/93 season , Kröll again achieved a top position in the World Cup when he finished fifth in the giant slalom in Sestriere . Then he came for the first time at a major event, the 1993 World Cup in Morioka , Japan , where he was eleventh in the giant slalom. For the Olympic Winter Games in 1994 Kröll could not qualify within the Austrian team, although he had previously achieved third place in the giant slalom of Hinterstoder and thus his first World Cup podium in almost four years.

After Kroell had celebrated some successes in the Super-G is already in the European Cup and won several races in the years 1994/95 and 1995/96, he was but so far came in the World Cup giant slalom only in appearance, Kroll was in the winter of 1994-95 also catching up to the top in the Super-G discipline in the World Cup. On January 16, 1995, he finished sixth in Kitzbühel for the first time in the top ten and celebrated a victory in the Super-G in Bormio on March 16, 1995 . He finished the Super G World Cup in fourth position. In the giant slalom, Kröll was twice in the top five in 1994/95, but in the 1995/96 season he remained almost without World Cup points in this discipline, while he continued to be among the world's best in the Super-G. He finished second in Vail , finished three more times in the top ten and finished sixth in the Super G World Cup. The worst Super G result of the winter he achieved at the 1996 World Cup in the Spanish Sierra Nevada , where he only came in 20th.

On October 5, 1996, Kröll had a fatal accident at the age of 28 in a car accident on the Zillertalstraße (Zillertal expressway) in the municipality of Stumm . At around 4.30 p.m. on the way home from a go-kart race at his friend Heinz Kinigadner's in Uderns in his "BMW 325" with the registration number "SZ RK 1" on a wet lane during an overtaking maneuver, he hit a German coach head-on and died on Scene of the accident. Ten people of indefinite degree were injured in the coach; they were taken to the nearby Schwaz district hospital . Kröll left behind his wife and their daughter Maria-Lisa, who was born in 1993.

successes

World championships

World cup

  • 6 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
January 14, 1990 Alta Badia Italy Giant slalom
January 23, 1990 Veysonnaz Switzerland Giant slalom
March 16, 1995 Bormio Italy Super G

European Cup ratings

Junior World Championships

Austrian championships

Three times Austrian champion :

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Skistar raced to death. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 7, 1996, p. 22.
  2. ^ Richard Kröll won medals at Austrian youth championships. ÖSV winner board, accessed on November 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ «17 points cushion for Pirmin. Tomba before the final: “Everything is in!” » In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 26, 1988, p. 21 ( arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ "World Cup debut for Kröll" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1988, p. 30 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
  5. ^ "Ski star Richard Kröll died in the wreck of his car" in "Kronenzeitung" of October 6, 1996, 9th and 8th pages from the back
  6. ↑ "Drama about ski racer Richard Kröll" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 233 of October 7, 1996, page 25
  7. ^ "Richard Kröll died in the wreck" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 233 of October 7, 1996, regional section KLI, page 11
  8. ↑ Kaltenbach volunteer fire brigade (ed.): 100 years of Kaltenbach volunteer fire brigade. ( Memento of February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 2003, p. 30.
  9. ^ Armin Assinger , Robert Seeger : Gold. Austria's biggest ski stars. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-7041-3 , p. 113.
personal data
SURNAME Kroell, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1996
Place of death Stumm (Tyrol) , Austria