His winning time was 2:18.16, more than a half minute behind Klammer's. Ski legend Franz Klammer of Austria, then age 22, won his Olympic gold medal at. Įgon Zimmermann, also of Austria, took the gold medal a dozen years earlier in the 1964 Olympic downhill.

Moreover, he won gold at the 1976 Winter Olympics in. 3, 1953, Mooswald, Austria), Austrian Alpine skier who specialized in the downhill event, winning 25 World Cup downhill races in. Behind at the last timing interval, Klammer finished at 1:45.73, an average speed of and vertical descent rate of. Klammer has dominated the downhill event in four consecutive World Cup Seasons from 1975 to 1978. The course had a vertical drop of and started at, well below the mountain's summit. Ski legend Franz Klammer of Austria, then age 22, won his Olympic gold medal at Patscherkofel, dramatically edging out defending Olympic champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland by 0.33 seconds in the 1976 Downhill.

The other five alpine skiing events were held at Axamer Lizum. Winter Olympicsĭuring both the 19 Winter Olympics, the mountain was the venue for the men's downhill race, along with the bobsleigh and luge competitions in neighboring Igls. Several times he sailed through the air with arms flailing and skis askew, but he always righted. Acid brown earth, podzolized brown earth and iron-humus podzol are the dominant soil types. Klammer's gold-medal-winning downhill run at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics was anything but dull. Calcium-rich bedrock such as basalt, chalk and dolomite also occurs but is too scarce to have much influence on the soils of this severely glaciated mountain. Quartz phyllite is the dominant bedrock, with gneiss and feldspar at the peak. Partway down the run he trailed Russi by a fraction of a second, but he skied with such wild abandon over the final 1,000. The town of Igls at its northwest base is at, a vertical drop of. Franz Klammer's Olympic Downhill Gold Metal Run - posted in Off Topic Chat: I will never forget this amazing 'no guts, no glory' moment. Hometown favorite Franz Klammer of Austria, skiing before an Innsbruck throng. Everybodys eyes were on the race of the year. The peak rises to a summit elevation of above sea level. To this day, it remains the greatest Olympic downhill run of all time. With bib number 15, Franz Klammer was the big favourite at the start of the Olympic Downhill run in Innsbruck. Patscherkofel is a mountain and ski area in the Alps, in Tyrol in western Austria, 7 km (4 mi.) south of Innsbruck.

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