Gustav Lantschner
Gustav " Guzzi " Lantschner ( born August 12, 1910 in Innsbruck, † 19 March, 2011 Krailling ) was an Austro- German alpine skier. He was in the 1930s one of the stars of Alpine skiing. Lantschner was 1932 world champion in the downhill. He won three medals at World Championships and at the 1936 Winter Olympics silver medal.
Life
Gustav Lantschner came as his two sisters Inge and Hadwig and his brothers Otto and Gerhard of a ski-loving family. He studied at the University of Innsbruck and took off the end of the 1920s, partly in both the Nordic and Alpine skiing at competitions, its far greater successes came at the Alpine. In 1929 he won the slalom in Davos for the first time in an international race. On 14 January 1930, he scored in the first Kilomètre - Lancé race in St. Moritz with 105.675 km / h new speed record on skis.
A great success was the 19 - year-old when he was in Davos Academic World Champion in downhill in 1930 from his brother Otto. The first Alpine World Ski Championships 1931 in Mürren he came in the downhill behind four Swiss to fifth place. In the Academic World Championships 1931 in Gstaad, he reached in downhill skiing, ski jumping in and in combination each second.
His biggest success Lantschner at the World Championships in 1932 in the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo. With 2.6 seconds ahead of the Swiss David Zogg he won the gold medal in the downhill, becoming the first Austrian World Champion in the history of alpine skiing. With tenth place in the slalom he won the bronze medal also in the combination. A year later Lantschner won at the world championship in 1933 in his hometown of Innsbruck Tyrolean behind his compatriot Anton Seelos the silver medal in the slalom. Due to a botched exit he came in the combination but only to fifth place.
In the following years, Lantschner concentrated more on his career in film, moved to Berlin and in 1935 the German citizenship. In 1936 he returned again back into skiing and went for the German Reich at the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch -Partenkirchen at the start. In the Alpine competition for the first time in the Olympic program standing, he secured thanks to a good performance in the slalom silver medal behind Francis Pfnür, thus ensuring a German double victory. In 1937 he ended his sports career final.
Lantschners successes on skis also made him a famous star of various adventures and mountain films. In 1930, he starred in Arnold Fanck's storms Mont Blanc for the first time on camera. The following year he played at the side of Leni Riefenstahl in the white noise. The success of this Skifilmklassikers, in which he portrayed a hamburger carpenter pair together with the Innsbruck Walter Riml, led to further joint roles in Adventures in Engadine ( 1932) and in the partially shot in Greenland movie North Pole - Ahoy! or Oops - we both! (1934 ). Lantschner and Walter Riml were then German as a response to the comedy duo Pat & Patachon. According to the assistant director for his former co-star Leni Riefenstahl in the documentary Triumph of the Will over the Nazi Party in 1934 Lantschner worked 1936-1938 as a cameraman at Riefenstahl's Olympia films, having previously trained him three quarters of a year. Together with Harald pure linen, also an employee Fanck, he turned 1938/39, the documentary whitewater and Easter ski tour in the Tyrol. Both strips were produced by Riefenstahl.
After the war Lantschner lived some time in South Tyrol, before he moved to Argentina for seven years. There he turned more films and was involved with his compatriot Hans Nöbl the construction of several schools. At the beginning of the 1960s, he returned to Europe, got married and had a son. With the skiing he did not stop until the age of 88 years. In 2008, he appeared in the documentary Ski Heil - The two boards that mean the world alongside his former racers colleagues Eberhard Kneisl, Karl Koller and Richard Rossmann with. Last Lantschner lived in Munich.
Sporting successes
Olympic Winter Games
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1936: 2 combination
World Championships
- Murren 1931: 5th exit
- Cortina d' Ampezzo 1932: 1st exit, 3 combination, 10th slalom
- Innsbruck 1933: 2nd Slalom, 5 combination, exit 16