Richard Schabl
Richard Schabl 
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| birthday | 1959 (age 61) | ||||||||
| job | Skier, photographer, film producer |
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| discipline | ballet | ||||||||
| society | Ski club piding | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1986 | ||||||||
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Richard Schabl (* 1959 ) is a former German freestyle skier . He specialized in the no longer performed discipline ballet (acro) . In this discipline he became the first world champion in 1986 and won the discipline classification twice in the World Cup and twelve individual competitions.
biography
Athletic career
Richard Schabl comes from Bergen in Chiemgau and learned to ski in the Piding ski club.
Schabl began professionally with the freestyle sport at the age of 16 and fought his way up to the top of the world in the following years. In 1979 he was the first German champion in combination. In 1980 the FIS launched the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and Schabl started in ballet. The best result he achieved was fifth on the Oberjoch . In the next two years he finished third and fourth in the discipline classification, celebrating his first World Cup victory in January 1982 in Blackcomb .
In the winter of 1982/83 he achieved four victories and he was able to win the ballet discipline for the first time. He was also the first and only time German champion in his specialty. In the following season he maintained his status as number one in the World Cup, but only won the discipline ranking thanks to the better results ahead of his compatriot Hermann Reitberger, who tied on points . The two continued the German dominance in ski ballet, with Reitberger increasingly gaining the upper hand. In February 1986 Schabl was able to prevail against all competition at the very first Freestyle World Championships in Tignes and won the gold medal. Then he ended his active career in competitive sports. He is credited with inventing the one-handed pole flip .
Further career
In addition to his career as a competitive athlete, Schabl worked as a ski instructor and, in the early 1980s, was in charge of an international freestyle training camp on the Hintertux Glacier . Since 1984 he has lived mainly in Breckenridge , Colorado for the winter half-year and began working as a producer and actor on ski films. He later also worked as a photographer for various relevant magazines. For over a decade he produced the feature film Smoke in the Tunnel , which has the Kaprun fire disaster in 2000 as a framework. Schabl himself was in the ski area on November 11, 2000, but said he took the gondola instead of the funicular. The 8.5 million US dollars expensive film was largely shot in Austria and Breckenridge.
In addition, Richard Schabl appeared on several television shows. On November 3rd, 1990 he was in an issue of Wetten, dass ..? guest in Linz . In 1993 he set a world record in the program Aber Hallo with 22 ski overturns within 60 seconds on a conveyor belt. He set a record in railsliding in January 2010 at the Kaiserblick lifts in Sachrang , where he covered a distance of 48 meters.
Schabl lives temporarily in the Caribbean .
successes
World championships
- Tignes 1986 : 1st ballet
World Cup ratings
| season | total | ballet | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1980 | 48. | 37 | 19th | 37 |
| 1980/81 | 18th | 133 | 3. | 133 |
| 1981/82 | 26th | 132 | 4th | 132 |
| 1982/83 | 16. | 25th | 1. | 124 |
| 1983/84 | 13. | 25th | 1. | 148 |
| 1984/85 | 11. | 24 | 2. | 170 |
| 1985/86 | 28. | 19th | 8th. | 94 |
World Cup victories
Schabl achieved 28 podium places in the World Cup, including 12 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 9, 1982 | Blackcomb | Canada | ballet |
| January 3, 1983 | Mariazell | Austria | ballet |
| January 20, 1983 | Tignes | France | ballet |
| February 2, 1983 | Livigno | Italy | ballet |
| February 12, 1983 | Ravascletto | Italy | ballet |
| 20th January 1984 | Breckenridge | United States | ballet |
| March 3, 1984 | Oberjoch | Germany | ballet |
| March 20, 1984 | Halls | Sweden | ballet |
| March 27, 1984 | Tignes | France | ballet |
| February 1, 1985 | La Sauze | France | ballet |
| March 9, 1985 | Mariazell | Austria | ballet |
| 17th December 1985 | Zermatt | Switzerland | ballet |
More Achievements
- 2 German championship titles (combination 1979, ballet 1983)
- European champion in ski ballet 1981 and 1984
Web links
- Richard Schabl in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Oberpriller: Virtual descent on carpet. In: Solinger Morgenpost , issue of February 26, 2007, B3.
- ↑ Chronicle. ASV Piding, accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Smoke in the Tunnel - Interview with Richard Schabl. SO! TV / YouTube , May 1, 2015, accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Andy Frame: Richard Schabl: Skiing on the mind. Summit Daily, June 1, 2005, accessed on March 24, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Schabl Freestyle Camp. In: Skiing. Spring 1984, p. 101 (English).
- ↑ Heather Jarvis: Part-time Breckenridge resident and World Cup winner produces 'Smoke in the Tunnel,' a film about the Kaprun disaster. Vail Daily, October 30, 2016, accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Snapped up. In: Kronen Zeitung , issue of November 3, 1990, p. 17.
- ↑ Sachrang: Trick ski world champion breaks record. In: Chiemgau-Zeitung , edition of January 7, 2010, p. 15.
- ↑ Winter sports charts. Winter sports charts, accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ German Ski Association (Ed.): Statistics Yearbook 2017 of the DSV , Munich 2017, pp. 124–125.
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| SURNAME | Schabl, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German freestyle skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |