Hans Enn

Hans Enn ( born May 10, 1958 in Hinterglemm ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. His strongest disciplines were the giant slalom and Super - G, where he scored good results in downhill, slalom and combined. Enn won six World Cup races and drove another 16 times on the podium, was twice among the top three in giant slalom World Cup and reached the top 10 places in total, Super G and Combined World Cup. He won at the Olympic Winter Games in 1980, which included a World Championship at the same time, the bronze medal in the giant slalom and was five times Austrian champion.

Career

Enn the mid- 1970s has been included in the squad of the Austrian Ski Federation. In 1974 he was Austrian Junior Champion in downhill and slalom ( age class youth I) and 1976 in the giant slalom and combined ( Youth II ). His first top spot in the European Cup, he scored in January 1975 with the second place in the departure of Avoriaz. He came from the next winter in the World Cup for use on 17 January 1976 and won ninth place in the departure of Morzine first World Cup points. But not the exit, but the giant slalom and later the Super -G - being driven in the World Cup since 1982 - were strongest to Enns disciplines; addition also the slalom, which he reached good combination results. So he missed in January 1977 as the fourth in the Lauberhorn in Wengen combination of his first podium in the World Cup just barely.

Enns first major international event was the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. He finished sixth in the giant slalom, despite which he had already lost a ski pole in the first round shortly after the start, but the fourth- fastest run time had gone. Two weeks later he was three-time Austrian champion; total he managed in his career on five state championship titles. In the summer of 1978 Enn had to go to a shoulder injury, suffered during motocross riding, take a multi-week break from training. He could continue to increase in spite of the training residue during the season 1978/1979 and reached towards the end of winter, the first podium in the World Cup, when he drove in the giant slalom in Lake Placid on the second and in the giant slalom at Heavenly Valley to third place. A podium reached Enn also at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. In the first run of the giant slalom, he was still in second place behind Andreas Wenzel, with the eighth fastest time in the second round, he fell to third overall place behind Ingemar Stenmark and Wenzel. Since the 1980 Winter Olympics were the last who counted as Alpine Ski World at the same time, Enn also won a World Championship medal next to the Olympic bronze medal. A second medal in the slalom he missed fourth only six hundredths of a second. In this discipline he was located after the first run in second place.

A few days after the Olympic race, on 26 February 1980 Enn celebrated his first World Cup victory in the giant slalom at Waterville Valley. This was for the first time in almost two years, the winners in this discipline not Ingemar Stenmark, the one serious mistake in the first round back threw far. With three further podiums Enn finished the season 1979/1980 second in the giant slalom World Cup ( behind Stenmark ), and in seventh place in the overall World Cup. Both remained his best career results in a discipline - or, in the overall World Cup. The following season 1980/1981 had to end in mid-February, when he when entering for the giant slalom in Voss a tibia and fibula fracture drew upon Enn after three podium places. He returned until January 1982 back to the World Cup, scoring in the 1982 World Cup in Schladming early February sixth place in his specialty discipline. Later in the season 1981/1982 he drove in five World Cup Giant Slalom is the fastest five, twice on the second place, which he finished fourth in the World Cup discipline.

One suffered in a car accident lower leg injury forced Enn in the summer of 1982 to a recent break in training. As from the winter 1982/1983 and the super-G was run in the World Cup, Enn counted in this discipline from the outset a world leader. He achieved a second place in the 3- Tre race in Madonna di Campiglio and a third place in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In addition, he celebrated his second victory in the giant slalom of Vitranc Cup in Kranjska Gora. The first World Cup victory in the Super- G followed at the beginning of the season 1983/1984 in Val d'Isere. At the end of that winter, he won two giant slalom in Åre and Oslo, which he third in the giant slalom World Cup was behind the points same winners Ingemar Stenmark and Pirmin Zurbriggen (at that time included the super-G results even for giant slalom World Cup, until 1985/1986 there was a separate Super -G standings ). At the season's peak, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, disappointing, Enn, as well as almost all of his teammates. He came in his two starts in the giant slalom and the slalom not finishing.

His sixth and last World Cup victory celebrated Enn on 15 January 1985 in the giant slalom at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden. In the subsequent World Cup 1985 in Bormio, he then remained with the fifth in the giant slalom but behind the medals. In winter 1985/1986 Enn drove in two Super -G into the top five, but stayed for the first time in eight years without a podium finish. The following season 1986/1987 was for him prematurely to an end when he the second giant slalom in Adelboden suffered a knee injury in January. After his recent injury lay- Enn drove in the season 1987/1988 six times into the top ten ( three times in the Giant Slalom and Super- G), his best result was a fourth place in the Super- G of the World Cup final in his home town of Saalbach- Hinterglemm. To participate in the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 but not enough before his results achieved.

In the 1988/1989 season Enn reached again two World Cup podium with third place in the giant slalom in Val Thorens and second place in the Super G in Laax before in Vail, he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee just before the World Cup 1989. He could still participate in the World Cup and was ranked 13 in the Super -G. However, in the next day discharged giant slalom he fell out, his knee injured again and then had to finish the season. Because of complications followed over the next nine months, five operations in his left knee, but Enn tried, especially in view of the forthcoming " Home World Cup " in 1991 in Saalbach -Hinterglemm, return again in ski racing. This he was not able, and so he gave his resignation shortly before the World Cup known. Hans Enn opened after the end of his career a hotel in Hinterglemm and has worked in the development department of the manufacturer of skis Blizzard. He was awarded the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria in 1996.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Lake Placid 1980: 3 Giant Slalom, Slalom 4

World Championships

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1978: 6 Giant Slalom, Slalom 11
  • Lake Placid 1980: 3 Giant Slalom, Slalom 4
  • Schladming 1982: 6 Giant Slalom
  • Bormio 1985: 5 Giant Slalom
  • Vail 1989: 13 Super -G

World Cup

  • 2nd place in the Giant Slalom World Cup 1979/1980
  • 3rd place in the Giant Slalom World Cup 1983/1984
  • 22 podiums, including 6 victories:

Austrian Championships

  • Quintuple Austrian National Champion: Giant Slalom in 1978 and 1983
  • Slalom 1978
  • Combination of 1977 and 1978
  • Youth I: downhill and slalom 1974
  • Youth II: giant slalom and combined in 1976

Awards (excerpt)

Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined Winter Olympic Games 1977 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1986 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1981 Alpine Skiing World Cup Saalbach-Hinterglemm FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1978 1979 Alpine Skiing World Cup Lake Placid, New York Heavenly Mountain Resort Waterville Valley, New Hampshire FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1982 1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1983 Alpine Skiing World Cup Municipality of Kranjska Gora 1984 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 1987 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1988 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1989 Vail (Colorado) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1991 Blizzard Sport Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics France Armin Assinger Arbeiter-Zeitung (Vienna)
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