Willi Köstinger

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Willi Köstinger
Full name Wilhelm Koestinger
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday December 14, 1940
place of birth Innsbruck ,  German Empire
date of death January 7, 2014
Place of death Seefeld in Tirol ,  Austria
Career
society WSV Dorfgastein
National squad since 1960
End of career 1966
Placements in ski jumping

Four Hills Tournament 21. ( 1961/62 )
 

Wilhelm “Willi” Köstinger (born December 14, 1940 in Innsbruck ; † January 7, 2014 in Seefeld in Tirol ) was an Austrian skier from Dorfgastein who was active in Nordic combined , cross-country skiing and ski jumping .

Career

The combined athlete Köstinger, whose strongest side has always been the ski jumping, made his international debut at the Four Hills Tournament in 1959/60 . As a junior he competed in both competitions in Austria . After 34th place in Innsbruck and 20th place in Bischofshofen , he finished 41st in the overall ranking. In the Four Hills Tournament 1960/61 he could not improve his performance, but started all four competitions for the first time. In the end he was in 30th place in the tour's overall ranking. He did his best tour in 1961/62 . Although he did not make it into the top 20 in any of the competitions, he achieved the best overall result of his career with 21st place. On his last tours in 1964/65 and 1965/66 , Köstinger only started one jumping and finished the tours in 74th and 95th places in the overall rankings.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1962 , he reached sixth place in his specialty, Nordic Combined.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , he reached tenth place overall. After the jumping, the result of which was strongly influenced by the wind conditions, he was surprisingly only in fifth place. In cross-country skiing , he placed in 18th place, which was good for him, a better overall placement was not possible due to the jump result. Nevertheless, with this result he became Austria's best Nordic participant in these games.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1966 he was injured in a fall and had to end his short career. In all the years of his sporting activities, Köstinger worked full-time as a plumber in his parents' company in Dorfgastein.

At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , the city ​​of his birth , he worked as a functionary and took the Olympic oath of the officials at the opening ceremony .

After his career he worked again with his parents in Dorfgastein, who now ran a guest company. At the beginning of the 1970s, Köstinger and his family moved to Seefeld in Tirol , the hometown of his wife, whom he met in 1964 at the Olympic Games. There he and his wife managed the Hotel Charlotte until the end, where former competitors from Scandinavia and Austrian ski greats from the Alpine and Nordic areas were guests again and again.

Köstinger came from a sports-loving family from the Gastein Valley in Salzburg . He was born in Innsbruck because his father was assigned to work there as a detective during the war . His father Willi sen. was also a successful Nordic skier and participant in the 1936 Winter Olympics . Köstinger had three brothers, Manfred was active in the Nordic as well as the alpine area in his youth, eventually specialized in the latter, became student world champion in the downhill and made it into the alpine squad of the Austrian Ski Association .

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season space Points
1959/60 41. 365.5
1960/61 30th 758.4
1961/62 21st 796.0
1962/63 62. 333.0
1963/64 83. 343.5
1964/65 74. 161.3
1965/66 95. 158.4

National championships

literature

  • Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger.Garber, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 212 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deaths ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at kuratorium-bestattung.at, accessed on July 15, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuratorium-bestattung.at
  2. ↑ Willi Köstinger jun reached 10th place at the Olympic Winter Games , WSV Dorfgastein, accessed on October 22, 2013
  3. ↑ 1976 Winter Olympics , Olympic.org
  4. ↑ Heigenhauser far ahead of all . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Köstinger, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köstinger, Wilhelm (full name); Köstinger, Willy (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian skier
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2014
Place of death Seefeld in Tirol , Austria