Wilhelm Malle

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Wilhelm "Willi" Malle (born April 5, 1956 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian athlete who appeared as a javelin thrower .

life and career

First successes in the early 1970s

Wilhelm Malle was born on April 5, 1956 in Klagenfurt, was already active as a track and field athlete in his youth and appeared as such for the Klagenfurt Athletics Club (KLC). As early as the early 1970s, he took part in country battles. On October 22, 1972 he reached a new Austrian youth record with 66.02 m in his hometown of Klagenfurt. Earlier this year he had set a new youth record with 56.30 m and was constantly expanding it. On April 15, he came closer and closer to the 60-meter mark with 58.60 m and made it over the 60-meter mark for the first time on May 11, 1972 with 60.24 m. At the plastics plant in Trostberg near the Chiemsee , Malle improved the Austrian youth record in javelin throw, which he had already taken from Walter Pektor the previous autumn , to 67.34 m on May 1, 1973 . At the Austrian Youth Championships 1973 in June 1973 at the Liebenau stadium , Malle was able to expand his records again; after he had already set a new youth record (67.96 m) three days before the competitions, which he had previously held himself with 67.34 m, he reached 68.94 m in Graz and impressed with a very good series, the contained two more litters over 68 m (68.10 m and 68.48 m). Malle was also able to dominate in the comparative matches of the young people in the federal states in the 1970s.

In August 1973 he represented his home country at the European Athletics Junior Championships in 1973 in the Wedaustadion in Duisburg , although he did not win a medal. With a width of 58.10 m, he was only 10th. An elbow injury that had already plagued him at the Austrian Championships and a groin strain were decisive for the 17-year-old's European Championship performance. In addition, the new synthetic surface in the Wedau Stadium was troubling him, as he found it difficult to hold onto. On August 25, 1973, when Malle was playing his biggest competition to date, his spear throwing trainer from the KLC, the 34-year-old Helmuth Steinberger , fell while climbing in the Karawanken and had a fatal accident. Just over a month before the European Championships in Germany , Willi Malle set a new Austrian youth record in Klagenfurt with a distance of 70.98 m, after having thrown several times over 67 and 68 m.

At the Austrian Athletics Championships in 1974, he finished second behind veteran Walter Pektor with a width of 73.90 meters, with which he set a new Austrian youth record. Before that, he had already improved his previous record from 71.12 m in the first run to 72.32 m, before he came to the aforementioned 73.90 m in the second run. With a width of 74.56 m, which he achieved on July 22, 1974 in his home town of Klagenfurt, he not only set a new Austrian junior record, but was also the best youth in Europe. This national record remained unbroken for several years; It was only with the change in the nature and the change of the center of gravity of the spear in the mid-1980s that Male's records were deleted from the current best lists and, from 1987, the new record holders were led from the introduction of the new spear (April 1, 1986).

Elected to the Olympic squad for the pre-qualification for Montreal 1976

Together with Eva Janko , Malle was in the Austrian javelin throwers' Olympic squad for the pre-qualification for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . In the spring of 1975 he was also able to achieve successes at an international level in a competition in Nova Gorica . On May 4, 1975, Willi Malle set an Austrian junior record with a width of 75.88 m in his second competition as a junior in the Liebenau federal stadium in Graz. This is the Carinthian state record that is still valid to date (as of August 7, 2019) (with the old spear, before the change in the regulations). At the national level, this record also held in the junior ranking until 1986, before the competition was switched to the new javelin and from then on the records that were achieved with this javelin were listed. Previously, Walter Pektor had held this record since 1966 with 75.74 m. In the Eternal Austrian Best List at the end of this month he was third behind Helmut Schönbichler (77.54 m; 1970) and Walter Pektor (82.16 m; 1968). Due to injury, suffering from a so-called " javelin arm ", Malle missed competitions in the summer of 1975.

Then he continued to dominate the Austrian Junior Championships, where he again won the junior championship in javelin throwing in 1976 with a width of 64.14 m, but otherwise remained largely below expectations. While at the same time the Hungarian Miklós Németh set a new world record with a width of 94.58 m, 60.98 m was enough for Malle for the Carinthian national championship title in July 1976. After a few other minor successes, including at the ASKÖ Federal Championships, he soon suffered another injury.

Austrian national champion in 1977 and 1978

In June 1977 the 21-year-old was considered injured for a long time and only made his comeback at a meeting on the occasion of the junior championships of the federal state of Carinthia on June 5 with a width of 70.26 m. Almost two weeks later, Malle threw the Austrian annual best performance with a width of 71.48 m in the provincial comparison match, which, however, was surpassed by 40 cm on the same day by veteran Walter Pektor with a width of 71.88 m. With 68.24 m he was again junior champion in javelin throw at the Austrian Junior Championships this year. In July 1977 he got back on track after a protracted injury and achieved the absolute best in this competition at the Austrian championships with a width of 73.64 m, less than a spear length behind his personal best of 1975. Shortly before that, he had taken part in the European Cup intermediate round in London with an Austrian selection , placing fifth with a distance of 70.44 m (a throw over 73 m in the last round was not counted). In addition, at the beginning of the month he was again the Carinthian national javelin champion. At the international lead crystal meeting in Ebensee on July 30th, Malle made it to second place in the javelin throw with 66.98 m. At the meeting of the extended ÖLV board on November 12, 1977 in the new building of the Upper Austrian state sports school in Linz , Malle was assigned to the general Austrian national team.

At what is now the 1st Volksbanken Cup of the Austrian federal states in the general class, which was previously known as the provincial comparison match, Willi Malle was able to stand out as the winner in June 1978 with 69.44 m, just ahead of Georg Werthner (69.28 m). With the Austrian national team, he then competed in the 5th West Athletics Cup in Sittard in the Netherlands from June 17 to 18, 1978 , where he took fourth place in the final ranking with a width of 68.40 m. Born in Klagenfurt, he took part in another international competition at the end of June; at the Konstantinos Tsiklitiras meeting in Athens he was seventh with a width of 67.76 m. With an ASKÖ selection, Malle entered the CSIT championships, the official championships of the Conféderation Sportive International Travailliste et Amateur , in Kotka , Finland , in early July 1978 , and was sixth in the javelin throw (65.80 m). Shortly before that, in his hometown he had achieved the Austrian best of the year with a width of 71.52 m. As in the year before, Wille Malle again won the javelin throw of the Austrian Championships in 1978 when he threw the Austrian annual best with 72.20 m. In addition to several Carinthian national championship titles in recent years, he became Austrian national champion in javelin throwing for the second time in his career in 1978. In August 1978 he also took part in the CISM World Championships, the official World Championships of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire , in Mikkeli , Finland, and only finished seventh with 65.30 m; The first was the veteran Michael Wessing from West Germany.

Career finale from the late 1970s

As so often in previous years, Malle was also the Carinthian regional champion in javelin throwing in 1979; 63.94 m was sufficient for this. However, in 1979 he was no longer able to defend his national championship titles from 1977 and 1978; although he had been in the lead for a while, he finished third behind Pektor (68.88 m) and Werthner (69.02 m) with 68.60 m. After that, Malle largely withdrew from competitive sports in the early 1980s and celebrated his comeback in 1981 with an Austrian annual best (ÖJB) of 70.08 m. He was subsequently able to improve this annual value to 70.78 m. In the previous year he had only achieved a personal annual best of 62.86 m. Also in 1981, the now 25-year-old Malle again took part in an international competition. At the intermediate round of the European Athletics Cup in 1981 , he finished fifth in Warsaw after throwing the javelin 66.50 m. At the Austrian Championships in 1981, which was overshadowed by storms, there was another duel between Georg Werthner and Willi Malle, in which the Carinthian had to admit defeat to the Upper Austrian and finished second, exactly three meters behind. At this year's lead crystal meeting, he came third. At the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the ÖLV in Judenburg at the end of August 1981, Malle achieved an Austrian best time of 70.78 m.

At the end of 1981, Malle finally largely withdrew from competitive sports and concentrated more on his professional career. In 1983 he appeared again as fourth in the Austrian best list for 1982. In 1984, with a personal annual best of 59.38 m in 1983, he was only 18th in Austria. In the years that followed, he was no longer included on that list.

Today (as of 2019) Malle still lives in his hometown Klagenfurt and works here for the office of the Carinthian state government in Department 8 - Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation, as well as Sound and Electrical Engineering.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (February 27, 1975) (with photo), accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. ↑ KFV Honorary President Ing.Raggautz also 89 , accessed on August 7, 2019
  3. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 15, 1972) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  4. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 15, 1972) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  5. ↑ a b c Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (May 25, 1972) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  6. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (May 15, 1973) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  7. ↑ a b c d Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 20, 1973) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  8. ↑ KLC EHRENTAFEL , accessed on August 7, 2019
  9. ↑ a b c d Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (October 25, 1973) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  10. ↑ a b Austrian athletics records (as of December 1, 1983) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  11. ↑ a b Austrian Championships 1974 in the bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association from August 28, 1974, accessed on August 7, 2019
  12. ↑ a b Austria's athletics records 1986 , accessed on August 7, 2019
  13. ↑ a b Austria's track and field records in 1987 , accessed on August 7, 2019
  14. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (April 25, 1975) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  15. ↑ a b c Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (May 30, 1975) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  16. ↑ Carinthian Athletics Records - Open Air , accessed on August 7, 2019
  17. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 29, 1975) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  18. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 20, 1976) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  19. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 20, 1976) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  20. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (October 11, 1976) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  21. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (June 24, 1977) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  22. ↑ a b Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 22, 1977) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  23. ↑ a b c d Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 31, 1977) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  24. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (December 30, 1977) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  25. ↑ a b c Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 14, 1978) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  26. ↑ a b Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 18, 1978) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  27. ↑ a b (October 20, 1978) , accessed August 12, 2019
  28. ↑ the KLC incorrectly only mentions the title of State Champion 1978: AUSTRIAN STATE MASTER OF THE KLC , accessed on August 12, 2019
  29. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 31, 1979) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  30. ^ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (September 20, 1979) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  31. ↑ a b Austrian 20 best list 1980 , accessed on August 12, 2019
  32. ↑ a b Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (July 16, 1981) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  33. ↑ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (October 20, 1981) , accessed on August 7, 2019
  34. ↑ a b Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (August 31, 1981) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  35. ↑ Bulletin of the Austrian Athletics Association (October 20, 1981) , accessed on August 12, 2019
  36. ↑ Malle 1982 no longer appears in the Austrian 20 best list: Austrian 20 best list 1982 , accessed on August 12, 2019
  37. ^ Austrian best list 1983 , accessed on August 12, 2019
  38. ^ Austrian best list 1984 , accessed on August 12, 2019
  39. ↑ Ing.Wilhelm Malle on the official website of the Carinthian state government , accessed on August 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Malle, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malle, Willi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian javelin thrower
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria