Werner Grissmann
Werner Grissmann (born 21 January 1952 in Lienz, East Tyrol ) is an Austrian former alpine skier. He played mainly downhill.
Ski career
He is not forgotten one of the " most colorful birds ", which in its long history, brought forth the personalities so rich Ski World Cup to date.
In an Austrian Ski downhill team with countless stars such as Franz Klammer, Josef Walcher, David Zwilling, Reinhard Tritscher, Peter Wirnsberger, Harti Weirather, Klaus Eberhard, Helmut höflehner, Anton Steiner, Uli Spiess, Leonhard Stock, Bartl Gensbichler, Karl Cordin and Erwin Resch Werner was Grissmann the "Bird of Paradise ".
Although the thoroughbred racers often lay at intermediate times forward, it only reached a World Cup victory in the downhill on February 11, 1973 in St. Moritz. Also he took in 1978 at the World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen bronze in the downhill. 10 top-three places and 46 top ten placings at the World Cup runs from 1973 to 1981 prove that he is one of the great departure specialists of World Cup history. In 1974 he was Austrian Champion in the downhill. 1980, at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, he was seventh in the downhill, before 1982, he ended his career.
Motorsport
After his career as a ski racer Grissmann operation also rallying. Here, his best result was a 5th place at the San Remo rally. Walter Röhrl and his co- driver Christian Geistdörfer were Grissmann at his rally debut heavily to one side. Of them Grissmann also had the roadmap that included driving instructions a rally track. Werner Grissmann drove an Audi Quattro. His rally career he finished after the birth of his son, Niki.
An entry in the Guinness Book of World Records gave him a 24-hour world speed record for production cars, the he set up in collaboration with Franz Doppler and Horst Felbermaier 1990. With a Porsche 928 S he went together with his colleagues 6175 km in 24 hours; including fuel stops, this meant an average speed of 267.5 km / h
Sport Management
1987 established Werner Grissmann the Red Bull Dolomite Man, today a successful extreme sports competition in the Lienz Dolomites. 2005, the first ' brother ' of the Dolomites man was in Cape Town - Cape Town of Red Bull -Man held.
Awards (excerpt)
Trivia
Private life
Werner Grissmann is married to Sandra and has two children - Nina and Niki. He has worked in East Tyrol as Rauchfangkehrermeister.
Nicknames
" Grizzly " is one of the nicknames of Werner Grissmann who already possessed during his career skiers over a considerable girth. Grissmann is also called the " interim champion " because he was, at countless World Cup races again fastest in the meantime, but those days could not get to the finish.
Parforce on ski slope
2006 Werner Grissmann had driven his SUV from the mountain into the valley towards the end of a popular hiking day in Bad Kleinkirchheim. But He came on the wet grass into the slides and a rollover to prevent he turned the car on a direct track on the steep final slope. He ran unrestrained along a transport path, and then he jumped around seven meters through a transverse to the direction of the access road, it burst three tires, so he drove on the rims for about 100 meters to the valley station and left the car. When the police arrived, he was nowhere to be found. However Grissmann could be reached by phone and then he went immediately to the police station Bad Kleinkirchheim. He told police he wanted to show off with his SUV, but on the steep terrain he start to slip.
A woman was wounded in this action. After payment of pain and suffering and a fine of 3,000 euros the case against Grissmann in October 2007, was hired by the prosecution.
Shouting match
To move the former Austrian Ski - cross- chief Walter Mayer and the world-class cross-country skier Christian Hoffmann and Vladimir Smirnov to start the Dolomite man Grissmann had the track conditions something " sugarcoated " when mountain running.
The complete demanded by the wayside Mayer delivered thereupon in climbing up a legendary insult duel with the helicopter circling over him " Dolomitenmann Organizer " Werner Grissmann.
Radio and TV
Werner Grissmann was also the operator of a radio station: "Radio Grizzly " in East Tyrol. 2007 committed the ORF Werner Grissmann as moderator for an edition of the culinary series Aufgegabelt in Austria. Grissmann, known as connoisseurs and gourmet, presented to the Austrian television audience of typical regional dishes Osttiroler. In the TV series " Wir sind Kaiser " he had on 23 April 2009 an " audience ".