Alois Morgenstern

Alois Morgenstern ( born June 13, 1954 in Spittal an der Drau ) is an Austrian former alpine skier. His specialty was the slalom discipline. In 1972 he was European Junior Champion and achieved a podium finish in World Cup Skiing. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1976 Morgenstern finished in seventh place in the slalom. He is an uncle of the ski jumper Thomas Morgenstern.

Career

Morgenstern was included in the squad of the Austrian Ski beginning of the 1970s. He celebrated the first major success with victory in the slalom at the inaugural European Junior Championship 1972 in Madonna di Campiglio. After he had reached his first top-10 place in the European Cup in the 1972/73 season, he went up into the World Cup squad the following winter. His best result of the season, at the same time also the first in the points positions, ie in the top ten, was the sixth place in the slalom Voss on March 3, 1974. Due to an injury he could almost throughout next winter incur no race.

In the 1975/76 season Morgenstern came in three slaloms into the top ten, with his best result was sixth place in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. So that he could participate in the slalom and reached as best Austrian seventh place also at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976. In the giant slalom, he was also at the start, but fell in the second round of.

His best World Cup result ever achieved Morgenstern on January 10, 1977: Behind the Swede Ingemar Stenmark and the Austrian Klaus Heidegger, he finished third in the slalom in Berchtesgaden. With three other top-10 result he came in the 1976/77 season in eleventh place in the slalom World Cup. The year before he had the twelfth -ranked.

The next winter the Carinthian only reached once the points ( fifth in Chamonix ), which is why he lost his place in the World Cup team. In the 1978/79 season he tried to return via the European Cup again in the World Cup. This he was not able, and at the end of winter, he announced his resignation. Later Morgenstern switched to football and became a coach in the Carinthian league in which to play his three sons.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Innsbruck 1976: 7 Slalom

World Championships

  • Innsbruck 1976: 7 Slalom

World Cup

  • A podium, a further eight finishes in the top ten

European Cup

  • A victory (slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim 1977), a second place

European Junior Championships

  • Madonna di Campiglio in 1972: 1 Slalom
Slalom skiing Medal 1977 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1978 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
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