Uli spit

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Uli spit Alpine skiing
Uli spit
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 15th August 1955 (age 65)
place of birth Innsbruck , Austria
Career
discipline Departure
society Mayrhofen Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 1983
Medal table
Junior European Championship 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
silver Madonna di Campiglio 1972 Departure
gold Ruhpolding 1973 slalom
gold Ruhpolding 1973 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 26, 1975
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 12. ( 1977/78 )
 Downhill World Cup 4. ( 1978/79 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 2 3
 

Ulrich "Uli" Spieß (born August 15, 1955 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian ski racer . The downhill specialist competed in the World Cup from 1975 to 1983 and celebrated two victories.

biography

As the son of Ernst Spieß and Erika Mahringer , Uli Spieß, like his younger sister Nicola Spieß , started skiing very early. He celebrated his first major successes at the Junior European Championships : in 1972 he won the silver medal in the downhill, in 1973 he became Junior European Champion in slalom and giant slalom. While he was also very successful in the technical disciplines at the beginning of his career, he subsequently developed into a pure downhill specialist. In the 1974/75 and 1975/76 seasons he got three podiums in the European Cup and he finished fifth and fourth in the downhill classification.

His first World Cup race was the downhill run on Patscherkofel near Innsbruck on January 26th, 1975. He picked up his first World Cup points in ninth place in Val Gardena on December 17th, 1976, and the day after he came in sixth on the second Saslong downhill run. During the rest of the winter he was in the top ten three more times. Even at the beginning of the 1977/78 season he managed several top ten results, but could not qualify for the World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen within the strong Austrian team . After missing the World Cup, the Tyrolean celebrated his first World Cup victory on March 10, 1978 in Laax, Switzerland , and the next day he came back on the podium with third place and thus achieved sixth place in the Downhill World Cup.

In the 1978/79 season Spieß came third in the downhill from Morzine and on the Streif in Kitzbühel and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he achieved his best result of the season with second place. This improved him to fourth place in the Downhill World Cup. In the next winter , however, he was only twice in the top ten, with fourth place in Val Gardena being by far his best result of the season, and was therefore not used at the 1980 Winter Olympics .

After changing ski brands in the summer, he found his way back to his old form in the 1980/81 season and celebrated his second World Cup victory in the opening race in Val-d'Isère . A week later he came in fifth and second on the slopes in Val Gardena. He made a name for himself in the history books when he was the first racer in the history of the Saslong to jump over the second and third "camel hump" with a 50-meter sentence.

On December 20, 1980, Spieß had a hard fall in the final training session for the descent from St. Moritz . He suffered several torn ligaments in his left knee and had to end the season prematurely. Nevertheless, with his season successes so far, he came in fifth in the Downhill World Cup. After the serious injury he got only two results in the World Cup points and in 1983 he ended his career.

Uli Spieß completed a degree in sports science and became a state-certified qualified ski instructor, ski guide, ski trainer, cross-country ski instructor and aspiring snowboard instructor. He lives with his wife and two children in Mayrhofen in the Zillertal and runs a ski rental shop with three locations, a restaurant and a café / bar.

From 1987 to 1999 Uli Spieß directed the ski school founded by his parents.

successes

World cup

date place country discipline
March 10, 1978 Laax Switzerland Departure
7th December 1980 Val d'Isère France Departure

European Cup

Junior European Championships

Austrian championships

  • Two-time Austrian runner-up in the downhill in 1976 and 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 419-420.
  2. ↑ 40 years of the Alpine Ski World Cup in Val Gardena. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Saslong Classic Club, December 11, 2007, p. 4 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 19, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saslong.org
  3. ↑ Operation of Spit . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1980, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Spit operated, season over . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 23, 1980, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Chronicle> Family spiess.at, site of family Uli Spiess, accessed November 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Spit, Uli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spit, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria