Walter Steiner
Walter Steiner 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | February 15, 1951 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Wildhaus SG , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National squad | since 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pers. Best | 179 m (Oberstdorf 1973) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 2. ( 1973/74 , 1976/77 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change: February 26, 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Walter Steiner (born February 15, 1951 in Wildhaus ) is a former Swiss ski jumper . He is still known in his homeland today by his nickname “Der Vogelmensch”, although his active time was decades ago.
life and career
In 1972 Steiner won the title at the ski flying world championship, which was held for the first time in Planica . He was able to repeat this success in 1977. In 1973 he was also vice world champion. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Steiner won the silver medal on the large hill (since, among other things, the ski jumping competitions - up to and including 1980 - were also considered the world championships of the International Ski Association at the Olympic Games, he was separately awarded a world championship medal in silver).
Steiner was a member of the Swiss senior national team for a good ten years (from 1968 to 1978) and had his heyday under coach Ewald Roscher . In 1973/74 and 1976/77 Steiner came second in the Four Hills Tournament . He won two days on the tour, 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and 1977 in Bischofshofen . In 1977 he was the first Swiss to receive the Holmenkollen Medal .
The Toggenburg won a total of 27 FIS competitions , including the Tatra Cup in 1975, the Norway Tour in 1976 and the Swiss Spring Tour in 1977 with three daily victories. He won the 1974 ski flying week in Planica and set a world record of 169 meters. His furthest flight was in 1973 at the World Championships in Oberstdorf with 179 meters. But he couldn't stand it, just like the 177 meters in Planica a year later. With the 5th place at the ski flying week in Bad Mitterndorf 1978 he said goodbye to the ski jumping scene. In contrast to many lightweight jumpers with sometimes very low body mass index (BMI), Walter Steiner was a heavy athlete. He therefore had cruciate ligament problems and several knee operations, which were largely due to his long flights.
After finishing his sporting career, Steiner and his former trainer Ewald Roscher moved to the German Ski Association, where he worked as a waxer and service man. After two years as assistant coach of the Swiss national team, Walter Steiner went to the USA and worked there as a full-time trainer in Steamboat Springs in the mid-1980s .
Long jumps in an unpredictable hill radius resulted in repeated serious falls in jumping and flying as early as the 1970s. Due to the improved material for skis and suits, the existing ski jumping hill profiles and table designs became more and more critical, because the distances could no longer be kept under control and the inrun had to be shortened and lengthened again and again in competitions. After his active career, Walter Steiner was very committed to improvements in hill construction and the hill profiles and also called for the hill slope to be flattened before the radius to the run-out area begins. This enabled the jury to control the flight distances again and the jumpers could now approach the radius without fear.
Walter Steiner has lived in the Swedish city of Falun since 1990 .
successes
Hill records
| place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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| Planica |
 Slovenia
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169.0 m ( KP : 165 m) |
March 15, 1974 | March 20, 1977 |
Movies
The director Werner Herzog attempted an approach to the psyche of a ski jumper using Walter Steiner's example in the film The Great Ecstasy of the Carver Steiner .
Walter Steiner played the role of the Taunting Farmboy in Werner Herzog's film Everyone for himself and God against all (1974) .
Web links
- Short CV with pictures at Swiss Olimpians
- Philipp Bärtsch: Simon Ammann and the bird man. In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 23, 2012, accessed on October 16, 2015 (report with pictures, together with Simon Ammann ).
- Walter Steiner in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- The IMDb about the film by Werner Herzog
- Walter Steiner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Steiner, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wildhaus |