Talk:Gustav Thöni

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Winning the Giant Slalom on Marc 29th, 1969, at

in the "Alpencup" (may be translated as "Cup for Racers from the Alps countries"), by beating the "French Elite", was the first time to catch attention.

After his first wins and brilliant achievements, he numbered among the favorites in regard to FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1970 in his home country Italy. But his nervous tension put him out of medals: In the first race, the Special Slalom, he could only finish 4th. One day later, in the first leg of the Giant Slalom, he was eliminated after the third gate. In the 1976 Winter Olympics he was in lead after the first leg of the Giant Slalom; therefore it seemed that he could become the first Alpine skiing racer to defend the title of the previous Olympics. But he couldn't show a good race on the next day (when the 2nd leg was carried out) to fall behind to the fourth place.

His last race was the Slalom in Saalbach on March 15th, 1980 - he finished 15th. I'm not absolutely sure, I admit, but I think he competed in the parallel slalom on March 16th. That event did only count for the nations rankings (race was won by Anton Steiner who could beat Ingemar Stenmark in the final heats).   --213.225.32.132 (talk) 15:13, 30 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]

On February 19th, 1971, he finished 3rd in Sugarloaf. In regard to his 2nd place (Hahnenkamm; January 18th, 1975), being only 0.1 seconds behind Franz Klammer it was (unauthenticated) told that the real difference were 0,03 seconds! Timekeeping happens in accuracy of thousandths of a second but official results are given in hundredths of a second. 213.225.11.90 (talk) 15:01, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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