Wolfgang Happle

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Wolfgang Happle Ski jumping
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 1940
place of birth Meinerzhagen
Career
status resigned
End of career 1968
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 10. ( 1959/60 , 1960/61 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single jump 0 0 2
 

Wolfgang Happle (* 1940 in Meinerzhagen ) is a former German ski jumper .

Career

Happle started in the Four Hills Tournament from 1958 to 1968 . While a 19th place on his home hill in Oberstdorf remained the best result in the 1958/59 Four Hills Tournament , he was able to jump into the top ten for the first time in the following year for the 1959/60 tour on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen . In the end, he finished 10th overall. On the tour in the following year, after rather mediocre results in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and after a sixth place in Innsbruck and a fifth place in Bischofshofen, he was again on this place in the overall ranking. At the German Championships in 1961, he won silver behind Georg Thoma together with Helmut Reichertz and Edi Heilingbrunner . During the ski flying week in Oberstdorf in 1961, he was unable to make a breathtaking flight at 145 meters and still took 3rd place in the overall ranking. During the Four Hills Tournament 1961/62 he achieved his only podium finishes of his career in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bischofshofen with third place each. After the season, Happle was in fifth place in the ski jumping world rankings .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1962 , he finished eleventh on the large hill. Four years later he was able to start again at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1966 . On the normal hill he only took 26th place, on the large hill he jumped to eighth place.

Until the end of his career in 1968, Happle started in the Four Hills Tournament, but was unable to build on the successes between 1959 and 1962.

From 1988 to 2012 he was chairman of the sub-committee for jumping hills and a member of the jumping committee of the International Ski Association . At the FIS Congress 2012 in South Korea , he announced his retirement for reasons of age. He is the inventor of the Happle beam named after him , on which the jumper sits before the jump instead of running into the hill as before. He let its technology flow into the planning of new jumps or their modifications.

successes

Hill records

place country Expanse set up on Record up
Bischofshofen AustriaAustria Austria 95.0 m
( HS : 140 m)		 January 6, 1960 January 6, 1961
Bischofshofen AustriaAustria Austria 99.0 m
( HS : 140 m)		 January 6, 1961 January 6, 1964

More Achievements

  • 2nd place on the 70 m hill at the international "Fred Harris" jumping competition in Brattleboro (with a hill record of 73.46 m in the 2nd round) on February 21, 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 - Results of the large hill ( Memento from December 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Nordic World Ski Championships 1966 - results normal hill ( Memento from September 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Nordic World Ski Championships 1966 - Results of the large hill ( Memento from November 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Happle says goodbye . Willingen Ski Club. May 30, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Sepp Lichtenegger wins in the USA . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1965, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Happle, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski jumper and ski jumping official
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Meinerzhagen , Germany