Werner Margreiter

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Werner Margreiter Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 8, 1954
place of birth Worgl
Career
discipline Departure
society SC Kramsach
status resigned
Medal table
Junior European Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
bronze Madonna di Campiglio 1972 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 40th ( 1974/75 )
 Downhill World Cup 15th (1974/75)
 

Werner Margreiter (born May 8, 1954 in Wörgl ) is a former Austrian ski racer and trainer . As a ski racer, the downhill specialist achieved two top 10 placements in the World Cup , and as a trainer he was, among other things, head coach of the US women's team and the Austrian and German men's teams.

biography

Werner Margreiter was accepted into the junior squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) in 1968, after having been in the Tyrolean national team for four years . From the same year he attended the ski school in Stams , which he graduated with the Matura. He achieved his first international successes at the 1972 European Junior Championships in Madonna di Campiglio with victory in the combination - which was not officially rated at the time - and third place in the downhill. As a result, the descent remained Margreiter's strongest discipline. From 1974 to 1977 he was a member of the Austrian World Cup downhill team. Margreiter has twice won World Cup points, which at that time were awarded to the ten fastest in a race. He achieved this for the first time on December 15, 1974 with sixth place in St. Moritz and the second time on March 9, 1975 with ninth place in Jackson Hole . In the 1974/75 season he finished 15th in the Downhill World Cup and 40th in the overall World Cup. In 1975 and 1978 Margreiter, who completed a teaching degree in sport, philosophy and pedagogy, won two silver medals in the downhill run at the Winter Universiades in Livigno and Špindlerův Mlýn .

After the end of his active career, Margreiter began to work as a trainer. From 1980 to 1984 he looked after the Austrian downhill women, who achieved several World Cup victories in these years, but after the resignation of Annemarie Moser-Pröll, twice went without medals at major events. He then went to the USA and was the head coach of the US women's team from 1984 to 1986, which included Diann Roffe , giant slalom world champion in 1985, and Tamara McKinney . He then spent two years as sports director at the Green Mountain Valley School in Waitsfield , Vermont , which was attended by the future world champion Daron Rahlves , among others .

Margreiter returned to Austria in 1988 and initially worked for two years as an assistant and ski instructor at the St. Christoph Sports Center , after which he set up a ski school on the Patscherkofel . In 1992 Margreiter went back to the ÖSV as the new men's head coach. After restructuring the training groups, his success as head coach peaked in the 1997/98 season , when Austria's ski men with Hermann Maier at the top won 25 of 37 world cup races and won the overall world cup and all discipline world cups. There were also three gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics , followed by two gold medals at the 1999 World Cup . Before that, the Austrian men had already won a gold medal at the 1994 Olympic Games and the 1996 World Cup under his leadership. When Margreiter was replaced in 1999 by Toni Giger , who had been the ÖSV World Cup group trainer until then, he was able to score twelve World Cup medals (three of which were gold), ten Olympic medals (four gold), and Hermann Maier won an overall World Cup 1998 - the first of the Austrian men since Karl Schranz 1970 - and ten discipline World Cup victories.

From 1999 Margreiter was sports director in the organizing committee of the 2001 World Cup in St. Anton am Arlberg . He then worked as managing director of three lift companies. During this time he also took part in ski races again. At the Masters World Championship in Méribel in 2000 , he finished second in the Super-G in his age group. Margreiter ended his detour into the economy when he became the men's head coach in the German Ski Association in 2003 . In addition to the gold medal in the team competition of the 2005 World Cup (together with the women), the German men won two World Cup races under Margreiter's leadership by downhill skier Max Rauffer and slalom specialist Alois Vogl . Vogl and Felix Neureuther also achieved several podium places. In 2007 he stopped his coaching activity and his contract with the German association was not extended.

Margreiter is still closely associated with skiing. In addition to running a ski school, he worked as a trainer for the ski department of TSV 1860 Munich . As head of sport, he was a member of the organizing committee of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck and Seefeld and has been President of the Tyrolean Ski Association since 2010.

literature

  • Werner Margreiter , Internationales Sportarchiv 04/2004 from January 12th, 2004 and MA-Journal until week 13/2007, in the Munzinger-Archiv ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kramsach Ski Club. Sporting successes. ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Kramsach Ski Club, accessed on November 25, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schiclub-kramsach.at
  2. ↑ results . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 22, 1975, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ results . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 25, 1975, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ World University Games. Alpine Skiing Medalists. ( Memento from December 16, 2011 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Ralf Tögel: Alpine light figure. Sueddeutsche.de, December 29, 2010, accessed November 25, 2011.
  6. ↑ 50 days: Innsbruck equipped for YOG. tirol.orf.at, November 24, 2011, accessed on November 25, 2011.
  7. ^ Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee. 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games website, accessed November 25, 2011.
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: 66th Annual General Meeting. Tyrolean Ski Association )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tirolerskiverband.at
personal data
SURNAME Margreiter, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörgl , Austria