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Leonhard Stock

Leonhard Stock

Austrian alpine skier


Leonhard Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.[1]

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Career

Stock earned his first World Cup points at age 18 in January 1977. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Stock was originally an alternate for the downhill, but his fast training times on the course at Whiteface Mountain earned him a spot on the four-man Austrian team. On race day, he was the ninth racer on the course and posted the fastest time to win the gold medal.[2]

Stock could not repeat his surprise win at the Lake Placid Olympics on the World Cup tour until almost a decade later, winning downhill races in 1989, 1990, and 1992. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he just missed a second Olympic medal, finishing fourth in the downhill and eighth in the Super-G at Nakiska.

In 1997 he took over his parental (farm)house in Finkenberg and converted it into a hotel. With his brother Hans he also runs a sports and fashion store in that town.[3]

World Cup victories

  • 3 wins (3 DH), 27 podiums
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World championship results

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From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.

Olympic results

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References

  1. "Leonhard Stock profile". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leonhard Stock". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  3. Biography Archived 18 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine at olympiahotel website.

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