Traudl Hecher

Waltraud " Traudl " Hecher - Görgl ( born September 28, 1943 in Schwaz ) is an Austrian former alpine skier. She counted in the 1960's to the world's best ski racers and celebrated over 50 victories in international races. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964, she won bronze medals in the downhill, also it was ten times Austrian Champion.

Biography

Hecher was born as the youngest of three children of Sepp and Hanni Hecher in Schwaz. Her father brought her and the two brothers early to skiing. Hecher won the age of five, the final race of a children's ski day and later rose through the Tyrolean junior squad in the team of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ) on. In the winter of 1959 it came under the then new Austrian Ski Ladies coach Hermann Gamon in first major competitions to use, next to the ski racing she graduated from business school in Schwaz.

The breakthrough to the world class managed the then 16 -year-olds in winter 1959/1960, when they first celebrated its first major victory in the downhill and combined the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel. A week later, she won her first two national titles in slalom and combined at the Austrian Championships in Saalfelden. Thus, they still secured a place in the discharged in February 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, where she won the bronze medal in the downhill behind the German Heidi Biebl and the US-American Penny Pitou. After the games Hecher won the slalom of the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley and the descent of the North American Championships in Stowe in the subsequent North American tour. Back in Europe, she won issue also includes the departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Sestriere.

In winter 1960/1961, the then 17 -year-old Hecher was already the dominant runner. After their victory early in the season in the downhill of the criterion of the first snow in Val d'Isère, she won each downhill, slalom and combined at the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel - which were held in that year for the last time for women - in Saint- Gervais -les- Bains, in San Martino di Castrozza. She repeated her victory in the downhill Arlberg - Kandahar race in Murren, won all three giant slaloms of the three -runway race in Arosa and a giant slalom in Maurienne and a slalom in Méribel. The next winter she celebrated in January 1962 victory in the downhill SDS- race in Grindelwald and the silver pitcher race in Bad Gastein, but at the 1962 World Cup in February in Chamonix remained Hecher - before the World Cup start in the FIS World Ranking first was in downhill, Giant Slalom and Slalom - with a sixth rank as the best combination results far below expectations. Opposite end of the season you are then returned two wins in downhill and combined the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Sestriere.

In winter 1962/1963 Hecher celebrated a number of other victories. She won the departure of the first gold key races in Tschagguns, the giant slalom in Saalfelden and the slalom in Bad Wiessee. In addition, she won the slalom and combination of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Chamonix, which she celebrated her sixth overall victory at this race and was awarded the Diamond Kandahar needle. In the north country - tour in Sweden and Norway, followed by other victories. Without victory, however Hecher remained in the winter of 1963 / 1964. Second places in the Giant Slalom of Grindelwald and the downhill in Bad Gastein were her best results. They therefore did not count at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck at the absolute favorites. Behind their country women Christl Haas and Edith Zimmermann she won like four years before the bronze medal in the downhill. Multiple wins her return 1964/1965, including downhill and combination of the coppice race in Haus im Ennstal, in all four races of the Alpine Cup in Davos ( Downhill, Giant Slalom, Slalom and Combined) and in the departure of Vail.

In winter 1965/1966 victories followed in the downhill and the combined Silberkrug race of Bad Gastein, in two runs in Saalbach -Hinterglemm and Cavalese and the slalom of the Golden Fox in Marburg. Until discharged in August 1966 World Cup in Portillo shape of winter, however, did not last. It was only the 13th in the slalom and 16th in the downhill, which she her - could not improve rather modest number of medals won at major events - in view of the numerous race wins. In the season 1966/1967, in which the most important races were first combined in the World Cup, Hecher took two third places in slalom at the Monte Bondone, and in the giant slalom at Jackson Hole, which she finished in seventh place in the World Cup Ranking 1967. Before the introduction of the World Cup Hecher was three times been the overall winner in unofficial annual evaluations. A victory in 1967 she succeeded only in a non -counting for the World Cup giant slalom in Innsbruck as well as the departure of the Austrian Championships in Schruns, bringing the then Austrian champion their record number of national titles increased to a total of ten.

After psychological problems Hecher ended her career in the summer of 1967. She completed her training at a women's fashion school from which they had already begun during her active career as an auditor, and put the master's examination as a seamstress from. After several failed relationships Hecher married the theologian and talk therapists Anton Görgl, with whom she now lives in Parschlug in Styria. The couple has three children, the younger two, Stephan Goergl of which (* 1978) and Elisabeth Goergl (* 1981), also skiers were.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

( included at the same time as World Championships )

  • Squaw Valley 1960: 3rd exit 25 Giant Slalom
  • Innsbruck 1964: 3rd exit, 8 Giant Slalom

World Championships

  • Chamonix 1962: 6 combination, 8 departure, 9 Giant Slalom, Slalom 12
  • Portillo 1966: 13th slalom, 16th departure

World Cup

  • Season 1967: 7th overall, 7th slalom standings, 9 downhill standings, 10 giant slalom rating
  • 2 podiums

Victories in FIS races

  • Exit and combination of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel 1960
  • Slalom of the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley 1960
  • Departure of the North American Championships in Stowe 1960
  • Departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Sestriere 1960
  • Giant slalom in Solden 1960
  • Departure of the criterion of the first snow in Val d'Isere in 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combination of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combined in Saint- Gervais- les- Bains 1961
  • Downhill, slalom and combined in San Martino di Castrozza 1961
  • Departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Murren 1961
  • Giant Slalom in Maurienne 1961
  • Slalom in Meribel 1961
  • 3 giant slalom slopes of the three- race in Arosa 1961
  • Departure of the SDS- race in Grindelwald 1962
  • Giant slalom race in Bad Gastein Silberkrug 1962
  • Exit and combination of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Sestriere 1962
  • Departure of the Gold Key races in Tschagguns 1963
  • Giant Slalom in Saalfelden 1963
  • Slalom in Bad Wiessee 1963
  • Slalom and combination of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Chamonix 1963
  • Giant Slalom in Oslo 1963
  • Slalom in Östersund 1963
  • Giant Slalom in Gällivare 1963
  • Downhill, giant slalom, slalom and combined in Narvik 1963
  • Giant slalom in Lienz 1965
  • Exit and combination of the coppice race in House 1965
  • Downhill, giant slalom, slalom and combination of the Alpine Cup in Davos 1965
  • Giant Slalom and Slalom in Mariazell 1965
  • Downhill in Vail 1965
  • Exit and combination of silver jug race in Bad Gastein 1966
  • Slalom of the Golden Fox in Marburg 1966
  • Departure in Saalbach -Hinterglemm 1966
  • Departure in Cavalese 1966
  • Giant slalom in Innsbruck 1967

Austrian Championships

Traudl Hecher won ten Austrian championship:

  • 2x Departure: 1965, 1967
  • 1x Giant Slalom: 1963
  • 3x Slalom: 1960, 1961, 1962
  • 4x combination: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963

Awards

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