Traudl Hecher

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Traudl Hecher Alpine skiing
Traudl Hecher, 1962
Full name Waltraud Hecher-Görgl
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 28th September 1943 (age 76)
place of birth Schwaz ,  German EmpireGerman Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Gymnastics Federation Schwaz
status resigned
End of career 1967
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Departure
bronze Innsbruck 1964 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Departure
bronze Innsbruck 1964 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 7, 1967
 Overall World Cup 7th ( 1967 )
 Downhill World Cup 9th (1967)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 10. (1967)
 Slalom World Cup 7th (1967)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 0 1
 slalom 0 0 1
 

Waltraud "Traudl" Hecher-Görgl (born September 28, 1943 in Schwaz ) is a former Austrian ski racer . In the 1960s, she was one of the world's best female skiers and celebrated over 50 victories in international races. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964 , she won the bronze medal in the downhill, and she was Austrian champion ten times .

biography

Hecher was born in Schwaz as the youngest of three children of Sepp and Hanni Hecher. Her father brought her and the two brothers to skiing at an early age. As a five-year-old, Hecher won the final race of a children's ski day and later rose to the team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) via the Tyrolean junior squad . In the winter of 1959 she was used in the first major competitions under the then new ÖSV women's trainer Hermann Gamon . In addition to ski racing, she graduated from the commercial school in Schwaz.

The then 16-year-old achieved her breakthrough to the top of the world in the winter of 1959/1960, when she celebrated her first major victories in the downhill and combined races of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel . A week later she won her first two national championship titles in slalom and combined at the Austrian championships in Saalfelden . This secured her a starting place for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley in February , where she won the bronze medal in the downhill behind the German Heidi Biebl and the American Penny Pitou . After the games, Hecher won the slalom of the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley and the departure of the North American Championships in Stowe on the subsequent North American tour . Back in Europe she won, among other things, the descent of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere .

In the winter of 1960/1961, the then 17-year-old Hecher was already the dominant runner. After her victory at the start of the season in the downhill of the criterion of first snow in Val-d'Isère , she won downhill, slalom and combined at the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel - which were held for women for the last time that year - in Saint-Gervais -les-Bains and in San Martino di Castrozza . She repeated her downhill victory at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren , won all three giant slaloms of the three-piste races in Arosa as well as a giant slalom in Maurienne and a slalom in Méribel . The next winter, in January 1962, she celebrated victories in the downhill races of the SDS races in Grindelwald and the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein , but at the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix in February , Hecher stayed in first place in the FIS world rankings before the start of the World Cup in downhill, giant slalom and slalom - with a sixth combined rank as the best result, far below expectations. Towards the end of the season, she won again two victories in the downhill and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere.

In the winter of 1962/1963 Hecher celebrated a number of other victories. She won the descent of the first gold key races in Tschagguns , the giant slalom in Saalfelden and the slalom in Bad Wiessee . She also won the slalom and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Chamonix, with which she celebrated her sixth victory in these races and was awarded the diamond Kandahar needle . Further victories followed on the Nordland tour in Sweden and Norway .

1964: Another downhill bronze at the Olympics

However, Hecher remained without a win in the winter of 1963/1964. Second places in the giant slalom in Grindelwald and the downhill in Bad Gastein were her best results. She was therefore not one of the absolute favorites at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck . Behind her compatriots Christl Haas and Edith Zimmermann , she won the bronze medal in the downhill, just like four years before. She achieved several victories again in 1964/1965, including the downhill and combination of the Krummholz races in Haus im Ennstal , in all four competitions of the Alpine Cup in Davos (downhill, giant slalom, slalom and combined) and in the downhill run from Vail .

In the winter of 1965/1966 there were victories in the downhill and combination of the silver jug ​​races from Bad Gastein, in two downhill runs in Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Cavalese and in the slalom of the Golden Fox in Marburg. However , their form of winter did not last until the 1966 World Cup in Portillo , which took place in August . She was only 13th in the slalom and 16th in the downhill, which - in view of the numerous race victories - could not improve her rather modest medal balance at major events. In the 1966/1967 season, in which the most important races were summarized for the first time in the World Cup , Hecher took two third places in the slalom on Monte Bondone and in the giant slalom in Jackson Hole , which she finished in seventh place in the overall World Cup ranking in 1967 . Before the introduction of the World Cup, Hecher had been the overall winner three times in unofficial annual ratings. In 1967 she only managed a victory in a giant slalom in Innsbruck , which was not part of the World Cup, and in the downhill run of the Austrian championships in Schruns , with which the then Austrian record champion increased her number of national titles to a total of ten.

After mental health problems, Hecher ended her career in the summer of 1967. She completed her training at a women's fashion school, which she had already started as a guest student during her active career, and passed the master's examination as a tailor . After several failed relationships, Hecher married the theologian and conversational therapist Anton Görgl, with whom she now lives in Parschlug in Styria . The couple has three children, of whom the younger two, Stephan Görgl (* 1978) and Elisabeth Görgl (* 1981), also became ski racers.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

World championships

World cup

  • 1967 season : 7th overall ranking, 7th slalom ranking, 9th downhill ranking, 10th giant slalom ranking
  • 2 podium places

Victories in FIS races

  • Downhill and combination of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel 1960
  • Harriman Cup slalom in Sun Valley 1960
  • Departure of the North American Championships in Stowe in 1960
  • Departure of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere in 1960
  • Giant slalom in Hochsölden 1960
  • Departure of the first snow criterion in Val-d'Isère 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combination of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combined in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combined in San Martino di Castrozza 1961
  • Departure of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren in 1961
  • Giant slalom in Maurienne 1961
  • Slalom in Méribel 1961
  • 3 giant slaloms of the three-slope races in Arosa in 1961
  • Departure of the SDS races in Grindelwald in 1962
  • Giant slalom of the silver pitcher race in Bad Gastein 1962
  • Downhill and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere 1962
  • Departure of the gold key races in Tschagguns in 1963
  • Giant slalom in Saalfelden 1963
  • Slalom in Bad Wiessee 1963
  • Slalom and combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Chamonix 1963
  • Giant slalom in Oslo 1963
  • Slalom in Östersund 1963
  • Giant slalom in Gällivare 1963
  • Downhill, giant slalom, slalom and combination in Narvik 1963
  • Giant slalom in Lienz 1965
  • Downhill and combination of the Krummholz races in Haus 1965
  • Downhill, giant slalom, slalom and combination of the Alpine Cup in Davos 1965
  • Giant slalom and slalom in Mariazell in 1965
  • Departed Vail in 1965
  • Downhill and combination of the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein 1966
  • Slalom of the Golden Fox in Marburg 1966
  • Departure in Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1966
  • Departure from Cavalese in 1966
  • Giant slalom in Innsbruck in 1967

Austrian championships

Traudl Hecher won ten Austrian championship titles :

  • 2 × departure: 1965 , 1967
  • 1 × giant slalom: 1963
  • 3 × slalom: 1960 , 1961 , 1962
  • 4 × combination: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States Ski Association (Ed.): A History. United States Ski Association. Colorado Springs 1967, p. 82.
  2. ↑ Austria Ski Sport. Journal of the Austrian Ski Association, issue 2/1962, p. 15.
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Hecher, Traudl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecher, Waltraud; Hecher-Görgl, Waltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaz , Austria