Klammer took heavy risks on the treacherous piste, skied on the edge of disaster, and won by 0.33 seconds to the delight of the Austrian fans. Starting in 15th position, Klammer was the last of the top seeds, and knew that Russi had set a blistering pace and led by over a half-second.
He was the defending World Cup downhill champion, and had won the three previous downhills in January at Wengen, Morzine, and Kitzbühel, and also won the previous year's race on the same Patscherkofel course. In the Olympic test event at Patscherkofel at Innsbruck in January 1975, Klammer had defeated defending Olympic champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, the runner-up, by nearly a half-second.Įntering the 1976 Winter Olympics, the 22-year-old Klammer was the favorite to take the gold medal in the downhill at Innsbruck in his native Austria. Klammer won that race and every other downhill that 1975 season, except Megève, where one of his skis came off without this incident, he would have won the overall World Cup title in March 1975, due to a good slalom result two days before at Chamonix, which would have granted him at least a third place (15 points) for the AK- combined of slalom Chamonix / downhill Megève. This time Collombin broke his back in a training run, unfortunately ending his promising career. In December 1974, Collombin fell at Val-d'Isère, as he had the previous year. After beating Collombin and Russi at Schladming in December 1973 under terrible conditions, Collombin bested him at Garmisch, Avoriaz, and Wengen. The following season he finished second in the downhill standings behind Roland Collombin of Switzerland, his nemesis that season. Moritz and a third in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte-Anne (the only time he finished on the podium in a World Cup GS in his career). Klammer, age 19, followed this up with a third at St. Anton downhill behind Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, the reigning Olympic and World Cup downhill champion. Klammer first showed signs of promise in the second half of the 1973 World Cup season, finishing second in the St. They have two daughters, Sophie and Stephanie. Klammer is married to Eva since 1979: the couple met in 1975 when he was in Tunisia at a fitness camp with the Austrian ski team. He spent 13 seasons on the World Cup circuit, from December 1972 to March 1985. He made his World Cup debut at the age of 19 in 1972 at the Val Gardena downhill: he finished ninth in the training run for the race, but could only manage 32nd place on race day due to nerves. He had a tough struggle to make the Austrian ski team, traditionally dominated by the states of Tyrol and Salzburg. Klammer started racing at the relatively late age of 14, competing in the winter whilst working on the family farm during the summer after he dropped out of school. His home village did not have any ski lifts, so as a child he climbed up the pasture behind his house to ski downhill. We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.Born into a farming family in Mooswald, community Fresach, Carinthia, and like many alpine farm boys, Klammer skied to school each winter day. All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers. Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames.įine Art America is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints.
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