Michael Veith

Michael Veith ( born January 20, 1957 in Tegernsee ) is a former German ski racer. He was with Sepp Ferstl the best German skier in the 1970s and early 1980s. Veith belonged from 1973 to 1982 the A-team of the German Ski at, in 1978 Vice World Champion in downhill, reaching four podiums in the Ski World Cup.

Career

His first successes celebrated Veith in 1973 at the German Youth Championships. He won the slalom and the giant slalom and finished third in the downhill. Later in his career, he focused mainly on the descent. At the age of 17 years, the German was a major incident at the start for the first time. At the World Championships 1974 in St. Moritz, he finished 21st departure rank.

In November 1974 Veith won the European Cup downhill in Montgenevre. Shortly afterwards he took in Val d'Isere his first points in the World Cup, when he finished in the first departure of the season 1974/75 behind the Austrians clip and Grissmann went straight to third place. After another top-10 results in two runs and two combinations he reached on March 9, 1975 his best World Cup result ever. In the descent of Jackson Hole he finished second behind Franz Klammer and just before the Swiss René Berthod. Thus, the then 18 - year-old came in the downhill World Cup as the best German seventh and in the World Cup, as well as the best of his country, at No. 13 In January 1975, Veith had become a large margin on the Austrian Leonhard Stock Junior European Champion in the downhill.

In the 1975/76 season Veith did not quite measure up to his previous results. His best results were the fifth places in the two slopes of Wengen. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976, he was ranked 22 in the next winter he missed twice only just short of the podium. Both in the departure of Laax as well as the combination of St. Anton, he came fourth. 1977 joined the Veith Skigymnasium in Berchtesgaden with the Abitur. The season 1977/78 was another very successful one for the Germans. In the slopes of Kitzbühel and Les Houches, he finished in third place, respectively, in which he was slower than the two simultaneous winner and Josef Ferstl Sepp Walcher on the Streif just four hundredths of a second. With further two top - 10 finishes, he came three years ago to seventh in the downhill World Cup. The greatest success of his career, he celebrated at the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. On the Kandahar piste he won by seven hundredths behind Josef Walcher the silver medal in the downhill.

In the next few years, he could not repeat this performance. In the 1978/79 season Veith came only twice into the top ten. His best result was the eighth rank in the downhill in Val Gardena, thereby significantly fell in the downhill World Cup. In the winter of 1979/80, the ninth rank in Lake Louise was his best result. With another four finishes among the top twelve, but he reached the tenth place in the exit rating as the best German. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, he finished 23 exit rank. In the 1980/81 season were his best results two eighth places in the second downhill in Val Gardena and in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In winter 1981/82 Veith came in no more races in the top 15, bringing with it throughout the season no World Cup points. In the 1982 World Cup in Schladming, he came in 17th place in the downhill and ranked 44 in the combination. He finished 13th in the combined downhill, but in the combined slalom he finished only 56th and last place. After the season Veith finished his career in skiing. He switched to the professional races that he participated until 1985. This year he was also at the Professional World Championship at the start.

Following his athletic career Veith trained as a marketing businessman and founded in 1987 the company Michael Veith sports marketing, which in 2000 with the Hamburg event agency Upsolut Sports GmbH merged and converted into Upsolut Sports AG. In the early 1990s he was also a commentator for the sports channel.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Innsbruck 1976: 22 Departure
  • Lake Placid 1980: 23 Departure

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 1974: 21 Departure
  • Innsbruck 1976: 22 Departure
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1978: 2nd exit
  • Lake Placid 1980: 23 Departure
  • Schladming 1982: 17 Downhill, 44 combination

World Cup

  • Four podiums, more six times in the top five and another 14 placings in the top ten

European Junior Championships

  • Mayrhofen 1975: 1st exit
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