Hippolyt Kempf
Hippolytus Marcel Kempf ( born December 10, 1965 in Lucerne ) is a former Swiss Nordic combined.
- 2.1 World Cup wins
- 2.2 World Cup statistics
Career
Beginnings in the World Cup
Since 1983, Kempf played increasingly race in the Nordic combined. His international debut Kempf on January 4, 1986 as part of the World Cup Nordic Combined in Schonach. In this he succeeded with rank 15 on the first attempt of the first World Cup points win. In February in Lahti he landed in eighth place for the first time in the top ten.
In the 1986/87 season he started with sixth place in Canmore. About two weeks later he won his first World Cup in Oberwiesenthal race, the so-called Posamentenpokal. In January, he reached third place in Schonach his second podium. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf Lucerne Kempf came after a weak jumping through fifth place in the 15 -km cross-country still in seventh place. In the team competition, the Swiss team with Kempf, Andreas Schaad and Fredy Glanzmann reached the fifth rank with the best long term of the competition. At the end of the season he finished third after interim lead in the overall World Cup.
Breakthrough and Olympic title
At the beginning of the season 1987/88 Kempf already started to prepare for the Winter Olympics. On January 23, 1988 in Seefeld in Tirol, he stood by the individual competition in second again on a podium finish. At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 in the Nordic combined he succeeded the first Swiss Olympic gold medal in this discipline. After he was still in third place after the ski jump, he finished the race 19 seconds ahead of competition. In the team competition, he secured together with Schaad and Glanzmann the silver medal. After the Games, he finished in his last World Cup of the season in Oslo again in fourth and finished the season as well on this course.
In the 1988/89 season he started on 29 December 1988 with the sixth rank in top Wiesenthal before he think won the Black Forest Cup in Schonach in January. Because of this competition, the entire world's elite went to the starting line, you count the race as a dress rehearsal for the 1989 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. As an Olympic champion, he traveled as a favorite for the World Cup, but missed fourth barely a medal and was thus also his favorite role justice. The chance of a better result, he missed already rank 14 in ski jumping. In team competition, he secured the team silver medal. In the overall World Cup standings Kempf was the end of the season after another win in Thunder Bay again on the third.
Coach Streit & comeback
For the 1989/90 season, which he began in St. Moritz with a victory in the individual Gundersen, there was an open conflict between Kempf and the Swiss national team coach Ezio Damolin. During his was the temporary exclusion from the squad. His international comeback gave Kempf in March 1990 with seventh place at the Holmenkollen games. He finished the season in April 1990 from winning the second Swiss Champion title after 1987.
In the 1990/91 season Kempf quickly reestablished connection to the top. After seventh in Trondheim he stood in Upper Wiesenthal, Schonach and Bad Goisern on the podium again. However, it remained the last World Cup podiums for more than two years. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he missed the defense of his medals from 1988 clearly. So he reached in single rank only 26 and has been with the team tenth.
End of career
Although he played only five World Cup races between 1992 and 1994, which failed to a great success, Kempf also belonged to the squad for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Surprisingly, he succeeded with the team winning the bronze medal. In individual he could demonstrate with sixth place once its strength. After he announced his career end for the end of the season after the Games, he finished the 1993/94 with a victory in Thunder Bay.
After his athletic career Kempf began studying economics at the University of Freiburg. He graduated from the Doctor of Economic and Social Sciences. He was honorary head of the Swiss Nordic combined discipline 2001.
In August 2004, Kempf became deputy behind Gian Gilli Head of Athletic Sports in Swiss-Ski. In this position, he represented all Nordic disciplines and athletes at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf. In July 2005, he left the Swiss Ski Association and adopted on August 1, a job as a sports economist at the Federal Office for Sport.
In 2009 he was cross country coach of the Swiss combiner.
Writings (selection )
- Hippolytus Kempf: Sports: between fall and euphoria. A comparative analysis of the institutional arrangements for the sport as a game and that as a commodity. ( = Dissertation, University of Freiburg ). Fribourg in Switzerland in 2004, OCLC 718,730,607th
- Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck, Hippolytus Kempf: Football - economics a passion. First edition edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2009, ISBN 3778083708th
- Hippolytus Kempf, Janine Balter: In the Shadow of sports science. In: Sports Economics. 15 Hofmann, Schorndorf, 2013, ISBN 978-3-778-08375-8.
Achievements
World Cup wins
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline
Private
Kempf comes from an old knightly family, which has its origins in Alsace. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather bore the name Hippolytus, which the meaning has fallen from his horse. During the early days of his athletic career, he worked in a sports shop of his parents. On Skigymnasium Stams, Austria Kempf graduated from high school.