Anton Steiner

Anton " Jimmy" Steiner ( born September 20, 1958 in Lienz, East Tyrol ) is an Austrian former alpine skier and current entrepreneurs. Steiner started his career as a ski racer, which began in 1975 with the first missions in the World Cup and lasted until 1988, in all disciplines, reaching with the exception of the Super -G in any discipline rankings among the top four in World Cup races. In the combination ( three times) and the exit ( twice), he celebrated a total of five World Cup victories, he also twice reached the fifth place in the overall World Cup. The three-time Austrian champion won the bronze medal in the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal in the combined at the world championships in 1982. Twice his career was interrupted by a serious accident. Since 1988, he has a company for Leitschienenmontage Waidhofen an der Ybbs.

  • 3.1 Olympic Winter Games
  • 3.2 World Championships
  • 3.3 World Cup
  • 3.4 European Cup
  • 3.5 Austrian Championships

Career

Rapid Ascent in the World Cup ( to 1980)

Raised in Prägraten Steiner visited the Skihauptschule in Neustift in Tyrol and then Skihandelsschule Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. His father owned in Praegraten a SPAR supermarket, Anton Steiner should take over later, so he attended a trade school instead of nearer Skigymnasiums in Tyronlean Stams. After initial success at youth level, including two podiums at the Austrian Junior Championships, the all-rounder was born in 1975 to first stakes in the World Cup. Already in January 1976 succeeded the then 17 -year-old connection to the world's elite when he scored two first top 10 places at the Lauberhorn in Wengen, and one week later in the departure of Morzine first time was for third place on the podium. Finally, he managed the internal team to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games 1976 in Innsbruck, where he but best interval after crashed in the downhill to the finish and went out. In the slalom, he finished 22nd place. With a total of nine top - 10 finishes in downhill, giant slalom and combined Steiner finished his first full World Cup season 1975/1976 on the 16th position in the overall World Cup. This result he could in the next two years not repeat, because due to its partial risks when driving, he achieved few results in the World Cup points ranking. While he was in the downhill and combination achieved the best results in winter 1976/1977, so he could 1977/1978 only points in the season in slalom. In the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he also came in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom used. After he was driven there in the giant slalom on the 14th place, he reached the fourth place in the slalom - 27 hundredths of a second behind the bronze medalist Paul Frommelt.

In the season 1978/1979 succeeded Steiner back out down good results in all disciplines. A total of nine times he came into the top ten, with which he reached the seventh place in the overall World Cup. He celebrated the biggest success so far with his first World Cup victory in the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel combination on January 21, 1979. During the winter 1979/1980 Steiner was able to increase a little and drove a total of eleven times in all four disciplines ( the super -G there not then ) under the top ten. The most successful he was again in the combination, in which he celebrated his second World Cup victory along with two other podium finishes. In the World Cup he reached this time in a very tight decision to fifth place, where he remained only one point behind fourth-placed Bojan Križaj and a further point behind the overall third Phil Mahre. He also finished ninth in the slalom World Cup, which was apart from the combination had hitherto been his best finish in a World Cup discipline. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the last rank as the world championship at the same time, Steiner came in slalom and giant slalom used. In the strong Austrian downhill team he had no chance at a starting spot, which was denied him a possible medal in the combination. But even in the slalom, where they were among the contenders circle, he remained with seventh place without precious metal; in the giant slalom, he was Eighteen.

Injuries and comebacks (1980-1984)

In December 1980, the career Steiner suffered a first major setback. In training for the World Cup downhill on the Saslong in Val Gardena he crashed heavily on the infamous camel humps. The result was ligament injuries in the knee, a concussion and a dislocated shoulder, and as a result a one-year break from racing. In his comeback season 1981/1982 Steiner could hold only in slalom back foot, which he showed in the World Cup, especially with a third place in Jasna. In the 1982 World Cup in Schladming slalom Although he retired from, but in the combination he won with the fastest time in the slalom run behind the Frenchman Michel Vion and the Swiss Peter Lüscher the bronze medal. In 1982, Steiner twofold Austrian Champion in slalom and in the combination. As early as 1976 he had first won the title in the combination.

In winter 1982/1983, the next check for Steiner followed. After he had remained in the first World Cup race of the season with no points, he retired in January in a crash on the Streif in Kitzbühel an indoor and cruciate ligaments in the knee, which again meant several months of injury and thus the premature end of the season for him. The second comeback in the season 1983/1984 was surprisingly successful for the now 25 -year-olds. This time he scored not only in slalom, but especially in the downhill and the combined top results again. In January 1984, he reached the exit classics of Wengen ( with the high start number 64) and Kitzbühel ( number 55 ), the second and third places, with which he first stood in this discipline in six years on the podium. He also won the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel combination for the second time. Its good downhill form confirmed Steiner also at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo which, as he himself says, the biggest success of his career when he behind the American Bill Johnson and the Swiss Peter Müller the bronze medal - and thus the only precious metal for Austria in these games - won. However, in the giant slalom and the slalom he left. In March, still followed by a second place in the World Cup downhill of Aspen, which he reached the seventh place in the downhill World Cup. The overall World Cup, he finished with a win, four other podium finishes and five other placings in the top ten as four years earlier in fifth place - this time as best Austrian.

Downhill victories and last years (1984-1988)

The descent was in the years to Steiner's strongest discipline, while he barely reached top rankings in the other disciplines. In the season 1984/1985 he went but only once third in Kandahar run in Garmisch -Partenkirchen on the podium and failed in the internal team qualifying rounds for the World Cup in Bormio. Things started back in winter 1985/1986, which already began for the skiers during the summer in Europe with two downhill races in Argentina. After several top - 10 finishes in December and January, including a third place in the discharged under floodlights parallel slalom on the Hohe-Wand -Wiese in Vienna, Steiner won the downhill of Morzine and on March 15, on 7 February 1986, the departure of Whistler, and so he also won for the first time in each World Cup race, after he had already won three combinations. In the departure and the Combined World Cup he finished eighth place in the overall World Cup ranking 18

In the season 1986/1987 Steiner was able to build on the previous year's performance in any way and achieved only towards the end of the season with sixth place in the departure of Aspen 's only top - 10 ranking. At the 1987 World Championships in Crans -Montana, he started only in the combination in which he finished in 14th place. In January 1988 Steiner reached again a second place in the downhill in Val d'Isere and after a seventh place on the Planai in Schladming he also succeeded in qualifying for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary - its already the fourth Olympic Games. As the third- best Austrian Steiner took on his last major event to seventh place in the discharged in Nakiska Olympic downhill. After the end of winter Steiner was at the age of 29 years, his retirement from elite sport known.

Profession

Steiner lives with his wife, whom he married in 1983, in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, where he attended the Skihandelsschule. There he took over in 1988 by the industrialist Franz Forster, founder and promoter of the Skihandelsschule Steiner, the Leitschienenabteilung from his business. Through his company, Anton Steiner Gmbh & Co KG, which he performs with his wife, Steiner was successful in Leitschienenmontage in Austria.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Innsbruck 1976: 22 Slalom
  • Lake Placid 1980: 7 Slalom, Giant Slalom 18
  • Sarajevo 1984: 3rd exit
  • Calgary 1988: 7 Departure

Note: The Winter Olympic Games 1976 and 1980, included at the same time as World Championships

World Championships

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1978: 4th Slalom, Giant Slalom 14
  • Schladming 1982: 3 combination
  • Crans -Montana 1987: 14 combination

World Cup

  • Season 1975/1976: 5 Combined World Cup
  • Season 1978/1979: 7 Overall World Cup
  • Season 1979/1980: 5th overall World Cup, 3rd Combined World Cup, 9 slalom World Cup
  • Season 1983/1984: 5th overall World Cup, 3rd Combined World Cup, 7 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 1984/1985: 9 Downhill World Cup
  • 1985/1986 season: 8 Downhill World Cup, 8th Combined World Cup
  • 17 podiums, 5 wins:

European Cup

  • 4 podiums, including one victory (slalom in Sarajevo 1981/82 )

Austrian Championships

  • Triple Austrian Champion: 2x combination (1976 and 1982 )
  • 1x Slalom (1982 )

Awards

  • Golden Medal of Merit to the Republic of Austria 1996
Super-G Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1982 1984 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1986 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics 1977 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1978 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1978 Lake Placid, New York 1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1983 Alpine Skiing World Cup Aspen (Colorado) 1985 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 Whistler (British Columbia) 1987 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1987 Crans-Montana Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics Chamonix France
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