Willi Köstinger
Willi Köstinger | |||||
Full name | Wilhelm Koestinger | ||||
nation | 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 | |||||
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society | WSV Dorfgastein | ||||
National squad | since 1960 | ||||
End of career | 1966 | ||||
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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 |
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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
- Saalfelden 1960 : 1st Nordic Combined Youth
- Lienz 1961 : 1st Nordic Combined, 3rd 15 km special cross-country run, 4th special jump run
- Bad Goisern 1962 : 1st Nordic combination
- Murau 1963 : 1st Nordic Combined
- 1964 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia not started due to injury
- Breitenwang 1965 : 2nd Nordic combined
- Villach 1966 : 1st Nordic combined
literature
- Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger.Garber, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 212 .
Web links
- Willi Köstinger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
- Willi Köstinger in the database of the International Ski Association (English) - ski jumping
- Willi Köstinger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Willi Köstinger on The-Sports.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Willi Köstinger jun reached 10th place at the Olympic Winter Games , WSV Dorfgastein, accessed on October 22, 2013
- ↑ 1976 Winter Olympics , Olympic.org
- ↑ Heigenhauser far ahead of all . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data | |
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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 |