Baldur Preiml
Baldur Preiml ( born July 8, 1939 in Bruggen / Carinthia ) is a former Austrian ski jumper, trainers and sports official.
Success and career
In the main school Gmünd his classmates convinced him to jump on the youth jump. A little later he came in the Gmündner club championships on the podium. 1954, at an exercise price of Carinthia Ski Association, suggested the teenager already the entire Carinthian ski jumping elite. 1958 Baldur won the Austrian Youth Championships. In 1959, he became the Austrian Junior Champion. In the winter of 1959/1960 he was appointed as the youngest at that time absolutely Springer member of the national team. In 1963, he celebrated the first major victory. He won the competition in St. Moritz. As part of the Four Hills Tournament, he won the competition in Bischofshofen. 1964, at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, he was not at the start because of an illness.
In 1968 Baldur Preiml at the Olympic Games in Grenoble bronze medal on the normal hill. In the first round he was in the lead with a hill record. In the second round he took the wrong one, slower run track and won with sorrow and distress nor the bronze medal. Soon after, he resigned from his active career. After his career, he finished his sport and history studies successfully.
Teaching and coaching activities
From 1970 to 1976 he worked as a teacher at Skigymnasium in Stams. He taught history and coached in Skigymnasium the Springer group. Karl Schnabl, Rupert Gürtler and Alfred Pungg were the first ski jumpers who were admitted in Skigymnasium Stams. In the coming years, Toni Innauer and Alois Lipburger followed. Preiml cultivated as a teacher, the enjoyment of the sport and made it clear by his own example that intellectual conflicts that lead to high school and study, also can enrich a top athlete.
Preiml worked intensively with the training doctrine of the GDR, which in skiing was a leader at that time. He studied their methodology, their kinematics and the bio- mechanics.
From 1974 to 1980 he led the Austrian national ski jumping team with the most modern training methods with special attention to mental and nutritional aspects of the world leaders. Trained by Toni Innauer Preiml athletes, Karl Schnabl, Alois Lipburger, Willi Pürstl, Hubert Neuper and Armin Kogler were part of the Austrian ski jumping miracle of the 70s and early 80s.
Austria's ski jumping "Dream Team" in 1975
1975 Austria became an overnight ski - nation number one. Baldur Preiml had become head coach. His innovative training methods and that he initiated in material revolution had everything that was previously placed on the head. The jump skis were equipped with new treads from Austrian Skiwerkstätten. Calf supports increased the sense of jumping and security. Together with Sepp Reinalter developed Baldur Preiml modern, air-tight jump suits. Soon the whole world elite became obsolete.
Willi Pürstl was before Edi Federer Tournament winner. The jump world stood head. Karl Schnabl won three of four competitions of the Four Hills Tournament. Jumped with Toni Innauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Wallner, Hans Millonig, and Alfred Pungg and the older jumpers Reinhold Bachler, Rudi Walter Wanner and Schwabl no less than a dozen Austrians suddenly in the middle of the top.
Philosophy
The psychologist Oscar schellbach forms the basis for Preimls life. " To make things right, brings success to do something wrong, brings failure ", that is the simple formula of Schell Bach's book " My success system ". Another formula for Preimls life: " Size of the personality through its own smallness seek".
Preiml explained the application of these two formulas using the example of his supervision ski jumper. The time was then ripe for a new development. It was important above all the enthusiasm in the work that could be transferred to the team. He, Preiml wanted to be Olympic champion, himself, but could not achieve this goal. The own inadequacy as Preiml thinks the drive spring was to drive the boys to excel. During his time in Preiml would have had no self-confidence, but gained the knowledge that one can acquire this.
A key aspect both for the success story of the jumpers, as well as his later work, the issue of proper nutrition was. Preiml has even tried what his body to diet is good and recommends this path all the others.
Austrian Supreme Sports Officials
From 1987 to 1991 Preiml led the sports department at the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Sports. Today, he is committed to freelancing in health promotion through exercise and diet and is internationally gladly invited guest at symposia and conferences.