Nicola Spieß

Nicola spit, married Werdenigg ( born July 29, 1958 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian former alpine skier. Your greatest achievements came in the downhill. It started from 1973 to 1979 in the Ski World Cup, and reached four podiums. In 1975, she was Austrian Champion, at the Olympic Winter Games in 1976 they finished fourth in downhill skiing.

Career

As the daughter of Ernst Spiess and Erika came Mahringer Nicola spit, as well as her brother Uli Spiess, early to skiing. Even as a 14 - year-old she was accepted into the National squad of the Austrian Ski and denied on January 16, 1973 her first World Cup race. On 4 January 1975, the then 16 -year-old won eighth place in the slalom in Garmisch -Partenkirchen their first World Cup points. Two other top ten results you get in the departure of the gold key race of Schruns and giant slalom in Sarajevo. That same winter, she was also Austrian Champion in the downhill.

In the 1975/76 season skewer could finish a World Cup race on the podium for the first time. In the first departure from Meiringen- Hasliberg she finished behind her teammate Brigitte Totschnig the second place, the next day she came in the second exit to third. After this good work, Tyrolean could participate in Innsbruck at the Olympic Winter Games 1976. In the Olympic downhill on the Axamer Lizum they just missed the podium and finished fourth. In the downhill World Cup they reached the third place, which is like the twelfth place in the overall World Cup her best career result of the season.

In December 1976 the spit again drove in the two runs of Zell am See on the podium and came up with four other top ten results in the 1976/77 season to sixth place in the downhill standings. After graduating from high school at Skigymnasium Stams 1977 she began studying sports science at the University of Innsbruck. Thus they reached in the next two years no longer their earlier results and drove once only in each case the points. Because of their participation in the Academic Championships 1979 ( it was supposed to start in a European Cup races ), it has been banned for three months by the Austrians. This lock was subsequently revised end of the season, but they lost important points. Moving to another nation was its not possible by the Austrians and finally she ended her career in 1981.

As Diplomskilehrerin and ski guide, it has developed in its own ski school teaching methods according to bioenergetic concepts. It is regarded as a pioneer carving. Together with her husband Erwin Werdenigg she founded in Vienna in 2004, the ski company " edelwiser ", which in 2007 was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Multimedia & e-Business.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

• Innsbruck 1976: 4th exit

World Championships

• Innsbruck 1976: 4th exit

World Cup

• 3rd place in the Downhill World Cup 1975/76
• 4 podiums

National Championships

• Austrian Champion in downhill in 1975
• Austrian Academic Champion in downhill in 1979