Zdeněk Remsa

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Zdeněk Remsa 1953

Zdeněk Remsa 1953

nation CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
birthday December 29, 1928
place of birth Horní Branná ,  Czechoslovakia
date of death June 22, 2019
Career
society Dukla Liberec
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 10. ( 1956/57 )
 

Zdeněk Remsa (born December 29, 1928 in Horní Branná ; † June 22, 2019 ) was a Czechoslovak ski jumper and ski jumping coach.

Career

Remsa, who started for Dukla Liberec, jumped from the normal hill to 53rd place at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . At the GDR championships in 1953 in Oberhof , he was third in the special jumping event on the Thuringian hill with 217.5 points. In the same year he won the Czech Marusarzówna Memorial in his homeland .

A year later started Remsa at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 in Sweden Falun , landing after jumps of 67.5 and 69 meters on the 37th place.

In the Four Hills Tournament 1955/56 Remsa only started in Bischofshofen and surprised the competition with tenth place. In the following year at the Four Hills Tournament 1956/57 Remsa competed in all four competitions. After a 24th place in the opening competition on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf , he achieved ninth place on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck, the best individual result of his career on the tour. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bischofshofen he landed again in the top 20 and finished the tour with 808.4 points in a very good tenth place.

In his last Four Hills Tournament in 1957/58 he was unable to build on the previous year, but after good placements in the midfield, including 12th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he ended up in 20th place overall. A few weeks later he started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1958 . Here he landed on the 43rd place with jumps on 61 and 58 meters.

After the end of his active career, Remsa became a ski jumping coach and in 1960 took over the ski jumping department from Dukla Liberec . His students included Jiří Raška and Zbyněk Hubač . The training group Remsas went through the press as the "Remsa Boys". A short time later he became the national coach of Czechoslovakia and led the team to the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics , where Raška won gold. In 1970 he resigned as national coach and went to Slovenia . In 1985 he resigned from this position and moved back to his homeland, where he trained the next generation of ski jumpers in Lomnice nad Popelkou , including Roman Koudelka . In 2009 he was part of the organization team for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec .

In January 2017 Remsa was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the coaching association.

statistics

Four Hills Tournament placements

season space Points
1955/56 35. 208.5
1956/57 10. 808.4
1957/58 20th 783.3

literature

Web links

Commons : Zdeněk Remsa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Zemřel bývalý skokan na lyžích a Raškův trenér Zdeněk Remsa, bylo mu 90 let. In: irozhlas.cz. June 22, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 (Czech).
  2. ↑ Bundesarchiv Bild 183-18381-0004
  3. ↑ Winner of international ski jumping competitions , Skisprungschanzen.com, accessed on January 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 157
  5. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 158
  6. ↑ Skokanský trener Zdenek Remsa SLAVI osmdesátiny ( Czech ) Česká televise . December 28, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Remsa, Zdeněk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovakian ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Horní Branná , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2019