At 1.35 is when he takes a line that no other skier dared to on the day and that is to cut harder left, slingshotting him forward faster. About that same time, Klammer had seen a film Schmied had directed about a Carinthian ice hockey player, Harrinator, that had been released that year. Suddenly there were 60,000 people in the stadium and the whole mountain began to shake. Klammer did not have classic ski technique, he came out of the gate fearlessly, right on the edge. No problem, lets meet tomorrow afternoon, he said. But the most important week in my life! He met fans who vividly re-lived their own experiences of Feb. 5, 1976. Somehow he survived, etching his name into history with a .33-second margin over Russi. Klammer finished fourth overall in 1976, third in 1977, and fifth in 1978.[3]. Required fields are marked *. [4], Immediately after his retirement from alpine competition, Klammer took up motor racing, and was soon involved in touring car racing, driving Mercedes-Benz saloons all over Europe and racing professionally as far away as Australia. [1], In an interview with Tom Brokaw that aired on NBC on 13 February 2010, as part of their 2010 Winter Olympics coverage, American Olympian Bode Miller cited Klammer's style and approach to ski racing as a major source of inspiration for him. [1] The following season he finished second in the downhill standings behind Roland Collombin of Switzerland. Klammer, the 1976 Olympic downhill gold medalist, said he had idolized Sailer, telling the Austria Press Agency, "As a small boy, I wanted to be just like him." Newsweek wrote in 1996 that. Their story was truly one for the big screen. Klammer dominated the downhill event for four consecutive World Cup seasons (1975-78). I remember watching that gold medal run. So his knowledge bank on Klammer comes from the legend and from the longstanding friendship hes had with him. Rahlves got his own revenge, of sorts, just two months later when he opened the World Championships in St. Anton with a super-G victory ahead of Austrias Stephan Eberharter and Maier a day that stopped the world in the hearts of Austrian ski racing fans. I cant believe it, he has been amazing! Stewart said. At his peak (Wengen 1976 to Wengen 1977), Klammer won ten consecutive downhills, including the pressure-laden win at the 1976 Olympics. Four years later, she missed the 1976 Games at Innsbruck; she had retired from racing the previous year to get married and take care of her dad, who was seriously ill. After his death, she staged a successful comeback. Enjoy!! He watches every ski race men and women. 1 mo. The other favorites were not as gutsy or crazy. After his 1978 World Cup win, Klammer's performances stagnated for several years, not winning a World Cup race until 1981. He is out, he cant make it shouted triple Olympic champion Toni Sailer, alpine director of the Austrian team, after seeing Franz fly high into the air off the Ochsenschlag jump in the upper part of the run. He would win 31 downhills in World Cup competition. Olymipc downhill champion 1976 (Innsbruck). But Franz Klammer's career took an exceptional turn when he won in front of a huge crowd during the Innsbruck Games on 5 February 1976. I gave him the local phone number of Austrias media coordinator, who did receive a call from Idaho after Hermanns amazing comeback in Super G. Schwarzenegger was so impressed by Hermanns triumph and his funny nickname that he wanted to speak to him. The pressure intensified again when Klammer drew the 15th spot for his Olympic run. A fan of the Klagenfurt ice hockey team KAC, Klammer liked the film. 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. Alone together after the race, Eva looked into Franzs eyes and asked him: Did you always want to be famous? He responds simply: Story behind Franz Klammers historic 1976 downhill gold, Chris Sarandon could play iconic role in Book of Tobit film , Oscars 2022: Denmark aims for second consecutive win with festival favourite Flee | News, House Bill 232 Polling place prohibitions Idaho Freedom Idaho Freedom Foundation, Capitalist profiteering and competition why are shelves empty? Four Hahnenkamm downhill titles (only Didier Cuche has more, with five). He won 8 of 9 during the 1975 season and also won 19 of 23, 20 of 26 and 21 of 29 downhills. Franz Klammer's Gold Medal Run - Innsbruck 1976 Dish Waterhands 111 subscribers 188K views 13 years ago This is nearly the entire Franz Klammer Gold Medal Run from the Innsbruck Winter. But I felt, you know, they were really pushing me., Passing the finish tape, the time showed 1:45.73. So I really wanted to give the audience a real feel for the people in the story.. An ABC van brought us from the medal plaza to the Saddledome arena. I knew I only had a small chance to win, he, told the author. The 1974-75 winter was practically perfect for Kaiser . He won 25 World Cup downhills, including four on the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbhel. During the call, he also invited Maier to visit him next spring in Los Angeles. It will premiere Oct. 26 in Villach, Austria, near Klammers childhood home of Mooswald. The film portrays little glory for Franz in the hours and day after the race. He was a very legendary skier, said Mayer, the son of Helmut Mayer, the 1988 Olympic super-G silver medalist in Nakiska. Moser-Proell had won three events, including a downhill, yet she had not been charging as hard as usual. He won for the nation, for every Austrian skier. He just went down the straight line which normally everybody said its just impossible, you cant stand this. Patrick Lang, the son of World Cup founder Serge Lang, has covered 11 Winter Olympics since 1972 and has written about ski racing for dozens of media outlets. School playgrounds were quiet and the capital of Vienna was empty. He was two-tenths of a second behind Russi. Nobody had ever had a string of victories like that. Klammer Express, his other nickname, continued to dominate his sport until 1978, then he suffered a loss of momentum which led notably to him not being selected for the very strong Austrian downhill team for the Lake Placid Games in 1980. Twice he took the concept to filmmakers and twice it went nowhere. But it lacked an antagonist someone to create tension. He did all the action shots, said Schmied. Franz Klammer's downhill exploits from Insbruck 1976 Restless Volleyball men's Final Yugoslavia vs Russia at Sydney 2000 Should aliens compete at the Olympic Games Our kids casters pick their preferred team to participate at Olympic Games Kids Call Franz Klammer's downhill exploits from Insbruck 1976 Franz Klammer can be considered the greatest downhill skier of all time having won 25 downhill races, a record that still stands today in the men's race. There were some hot meetings within the Austrian squad, but the other racers didnt want to miss their chance for an Olympic medal just a few hours before the start of the show. I was kicking in her belly because my mother was so excited the whole time.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to get the news and post directly to your e-mail. I watch it every four years at the Olympics but Klammers run is on my Mount Rushmore of Most Exciting Events I have seen in nearly 50 years of watching sports. Sep 26, 2013 - This is nearly the entire Franz Klammer Gold Medal Run from the Innsbruck Winter Olympics of 1976. This is all the sweeter when it is won in front of more than 60,000 focused supporters and millions of Austrians gathered in front of their TV sets across the country. Nov 4, 2009 #2 Warp Daddy Active member Joined Jan 12, 2006 I wanted to make a film. The screams of thousands of spectators must have been heard for miles. But, with Eva, it was immediate. As expected, Russi put down a solid run to take the lead. But she still appeared confident heading into the Games. Each competitor who followed failed to best his time, until there was only one skier left who was capable of beating him: Franz Klammer. Klammer felt he had to win the Olympic downhill for the honor of his ski-crazy country and the estimated 60,000 spectators who gathered along the race course to watch the competition. Alpine Skiing Legend Franz Klammer Relives His 1976 Olympic Run | ISOS006 In Search of Speed 8.67K subscribers Subscribe 822 Share 182K views 8 years ago For your throwback Thursday enjoyment. Bill Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 30, 1960, and moved with his family to Boise, Idaho, when he was seven.He learned to ski at Bogus Basin in the late 1960s. They also brought the 1976 downhill race course back to life, albeit with machine grooming to make it a bit more racer friendly. His career total is 26 downhill wins: 25 World Cup and 1 Olympic. Nobody was doing anything. She was always supporting me. Franzs wife said, no, sorry, that is not a story.. . While much of the storyline of the film is the tension Klammer felt and his burgeoning romance with Eva, producer Pochlatko knew that the true heart of the film was how he portrayed one of the most thrilling ski runs of all time 45 years later. At the end of the race he was going so fast that you could see a difference from the previous skiers. Its world champion Daron Rahlves. It was a really fun course with all the elements of a good downhill, said Rahlves. He remembered that day in 1976 as a six-year-old boy, crowded together with his kindergarten classmates watching on a miniature television at school. [citation needed]. During casting, Schmied and casting director Nicole Schmidt looked for actors and actresses right down to their age and the details of their regional dialect something tricky that changes over time. The new downhill skis produced ad hoc for the Albertville course were shorter and narrower at the middle. The following season he regained the World Cup Downhill title, his fifth, followed by the 1984 victory at Kitzbuehel, his fourth on the Hahnenkamm. She fought for her rights, yet lost focus and energy during the intense political battle. Bib number 15 moved into the starting gate atop Patscherkofel, high above the Tyrolean village of Innsbruck. Franz Klammer 1976 Innsbruck - The Greatest Downhill Run of All Time - FULL UNEDITED!! She finished second in downhill and giant slalom behind the unknown Swiss teenager Marie-Therese Nadig, who had never reached any major podium before the 1972 Olympics. Franz Klammer recalls, By the time I walked into the starting gate, I knew I am going to win. Chasing the Line, it would have been easy to simply pull archival footage to build a documentary story. Winner of eight of the nine downhill races on the World Cup tour in 1975, Klammer was the favourite at the 1976 Olympics but faced stiff . Pepi Fischer was omnipresent, pushing hard to force Klammer to use his new ski. The nickname became particularly apt after he survived his spectacular flight, several meters above the slope, and the post-landing cartwheels in soft snow. His tiny village of Mooswald, north of Villach, was situated in the mountains but without a ski lift. Patrick Ortlieb admitted afterwards that he had a French passport lying around somewhere at home, yet he was happy to race for Austria. Franz Klammer - 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Run franzweberinc 113 subscribers 509K views 13 years ago The greatest downhill of ALL time! Sport Skiing Country Austria Born December 03, 1953 Joined academy 2000 He has worked as a designer of Olympic ski runs since 1988. I spoke about it with ABC studio producer Draggan Mihailovich, a Tomba fan, who organized the journey. Born into a farming family in Mooswald, community Fresach, Carinthia, and like many alpine farm boys, Klammer skied to school each winter day. Everybody was in front of the television set. The Olympic Games were in Innsbruck, Austria and there was tremendous pressure on Klammer to win the gold medal. That December, he kicked off the 1973-74 World Championship year with the first of his 25 World Cup downhill wins claiming a victory in Schladming. The FULL unedited original legendary run of. Everyone knows the Kaiser. The crowd went nuts as the announcers in ABCs commentator boothFrank Gifford, Bob Beattie and their special host Jackie Stewart, the former Formula One world car-racing championtold the world the results. Two-time world champion and former alpine ski racer who dominated the four consecutive seasons of the World Cup in the downhill event, Standing aloof as the extraordinary defining rider in an alpine ski Franz Klammer protrudes among those alpine ski heroes. ago I remember being a kid seeing this live and thinking how close to death he pushed himself. Klammer, along with fellow Carinthia natives Fritz Strobl and Matthias Mayer, form a unique trio of Olympic downhill champions more than any other Austrian state, even the Tyrol. Franz Klammer (born 3 December 1953) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria. The next one minute, 45.73 seconds would change Franz Klammers life forever. And, once again, Rahlves found himself on page one of the local Tiroler Tageszeitung. He was behind at the first intermediate time, he was behind at the second intermediate time. Finally!! It was a huge achievement, as there was so much pressure on him prior to that Olympic race. To learn more, please visit www.franzweber.com Show. He won the gold medal in the downhill event at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. He didnt grow up in the shadow of the towering Tyrolean Alps. The preceding ski season had been terrific, too, as big crowds closely followed Italys unpredictable phenomenon Alberto Tomba, who was dominating the World Cup that season with six victories and a second place standing in the technical events. That honor went to a little-known Austrian from Lech, Patrick Ortlieb, who had never won a major event. I think that gave him the extra kick, there was something in the air, he could not lose that race, no way. After Schranz flew back to Vienna, where he was welcomed by a huge crowd on the main square, La Proell did her best to recoup, yet could not achieve her potential on race days. NEW YORK - Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford has died. Franz Klammer and the 1976 Olympic Downhill [], Your email address will not be published. One of the most important things I got out of sport were friendships, said Klammer. Kids watch Olympic curling for the first time Kids Call. Franz Klammer of Austria. But young Franz loved the snow, skiing to school in the winter and climbing up hills on his own to come racing back down. While much can be said about fame, few superstar ski racers started their careers just to seek glory. Franz Klammer. TRY A 1-YR INTRODUCTORY MEMBERSHIP IN ISHA! They start for the love of the sport. The Klammer story, yah, it was epic, said Schmied, a Styrian-born writer and director who, like most Austrians, was on skis before he was two. He had super experience in filmmaking. Chasing the Line presented new challenges he hadnt faced in producing Streif, which took viewers inside the minds of downhillers who threw themselves fearlessly into the Mausefalle. In an interview with Austrian television in 2006, the 52-year-old Klammer was asked about his greatest achievement. Klammer first showed signs of promise in the second half of the 1973 World Cup season, finishing second in the St. Anton downhill behind Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, the reigning Olympic and World Cup downhill champion. Literally, the entire mountain was shaking, said Russi. Thats what I liked.. definitely," said the 1976 Olympic champion, whose name is still synonymous with the glamour and danger of Alpine ski . In 1975 and 1976 he was the best downhill skier in the world. 2-The Thrilla In Manila- Ali V Frazier III 3. Russi vividly recalls the long wait in the finish and the momentum of the crowd that carried Franz Klammer to victory. He was the gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, winning the downhill at Patscherkofel by a margin of 0.33 seconds with a time of 1:45.73. The pressure on the young farm boy from Mooswald was immense. I couldnt believe my luck.. Nobody went there to see if it was possible or not. Mittermaier is married to fellow pro skier Christian Neureuther, and their son, Felix Neureuther, is also a pro skier. Since the previous season the charismatic newcomer has won virtually every race.The pressure from the media and the public and the hopes of an entire nation are off the scales. I thought, thats a fun thing just to make a film with one week from my life, he said. Alpine Skiing Legend Franz Klammer Relives His 1976 Olympic Run | ISOS006. Klammer overwhelmingly dominated the downhill event for four consecutive World Cup seasons (1975-78). Although he dominated the downhill event in World Cup competition, the overall title remained elusive, because the technical specialists had two events in which to earn points (slalom and giant slalom), whereas a speed specialist had only one. I was amused later to discover that I was the only skier who dared to take that line. Franz everyone knows him!, In his heart, Kresse believed in the story. Hes loved by everybody and he had an amazing career. So they took a chance, thinking what if we did a full-length feature film and just focused on one race? We pitched Franz on the idea, said Schmied. Do you feel like you've ever designed a downhill course that was too dangerous? She was the skier to beat after her great season start, marked by five victories and four podiums finishes in all three classic specialties: downhill, slalom and giant slalom. And suddenly, there were 60,000 people in the stadium and the whole mountain started to shake, Bernhard Russi explains. He didnt and he won the gold medal. Bobsleigh. Franz Klammer produced one of the most thrilling moments in alpine racing history with his reckless gold-medal run on the treacherous Patscherkofel downhill course at Innsbruck, Austria in February 1976. After his skiing career, he became a racing driver and raced touring cars until the 1990s. He was kind of a tough, tough guy.. [citation needed], Inspired by his younger brother Klaus, who was paralysed from the waist down after a crash in a downhill at the age of 16,[1] Klammer has established the Franz Klammer Foundation, which benefits seriously injured athletes.[6]. And still, he does everything right! We were a team."eattie served as a commentator for ABC Sports coverage of alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics from 1976 to 1988. ski team historian Tom Kelly last . The legendary skier Franz Klammer. He had won the pre-Olympic downhill on Patscherkofel over Russi in 1975. Above: Maier on the GS course in Nagano. In 1974, he took home World Championship gold in combined at St. Moritz, silver in downhill. I had to look into it is there even a movie there? he said. Three years ago, Kresse tried one more time. And she says, well, what are you doing? I said, well, Im skiing. Are you winning something? she says. So thats the thing, you know?, Last month the two met again at the Zurich Film Festival for a screening of. Many of the top guns failed to control their line in the tricky parts of the course. Gifford hosted "Wide World of Sports," covered several Olympics -- his call of Franz Klammer's gold-medal run in 1976 is considered a broadcasting masterpiece -- and announced a record 411 Monday . Originals 01:56. Even though I had nothing to prove here, its a special victory after that nightmare in Japan. The Austrian was obviously relieved to have blown away the dark clouds of Sapporo that had haunted her. Salmina brought in his friend and Hahnankemm race chief Alex Naglich to create the racing environment for the film. Austria in February 2013. Then came the biggest blow. We said that the best film, as far as our research goes, is simply behind the scenes at the Olympics.. His home village did not have any ski lifts, so as a child he climbed up the pasture behind his house to ski downhill. Im extremely happy. Russi was selected to design the course by Jean-Claude Killy, co-president of the 1992 Olympic organizing committee, who used to ski on that part of the Bellevarde slope as a kid. Witt was exhausted but happy about her exclusive ski lesson. His technique over an icy slope, his jumping skills and his ability to find incredible race lines remain absolutely unique. Four years later, they met for dinner and a private ski lesson. Klammer, a simple young man, was more comfortable with the C4s. Enter 22-year old Franz Klammer. His final World Cup race was in March 1985 at Aspen, Colorado. A dozen years earlier on the same course in 1964, Egon Zimmermann posted a 2:18.16 to win the gold medal. There is tough and turny Patscherkofel above Innsbruck, site of the 1976 Olympics and the magnificent victory of the Austrian Franz Klammer in a performance that is considered the best single downhill run ever made. Kids call the Jamaican . Their excitement is palpable. Several times he sailed through the air with arms flailing and skis askew, but he always. No. This was the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck - the men's downhill, the blue riband event - and the yellow flash was Franz Klammer, Austrian national hero and pre-race favourite. Background Born into a farming family in Mooswald, community Fresach, Carinthia, in 1953. Chasing the Line. The feature-length film debuted with a screening Sept. 27 at the Zurich Film Festival. 1999 - 2019 Skiing History. Klammer would go on to have an unprecedented career. Berlin-based Picturetree International is managing global distribution. Most recently this includes the downhill course at Jeongseon for the PyeongChang 2018 Games. They were at my grandparents (house) and they watched the race with the neighbors. Two days after that frightening accident, he was facing the press to confirm his intention to race the following day in Super G. 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