Leonhard Stock

Leonhard Stock
Personal information
Born14 March 1958 (1958-03-14) (age 68)
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Skiing career
SportAlpine skiing
ClubWSV Zell am Ziller
Retired1993
DisciplinesSpeed events
World Cup debut
1977
Olympics
Teams4
Medals1
World Championships
Teams7
Medals2
World Cup
Seasons17
Wins3
Podiums25
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing  Austria
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Downhill 3 5 4
Super-G 0 1 5
Combined 0 4 3
Total 3 10 12
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 1 0 1
Junior World Championships 2 2 0
Total 4 2 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1980 Lake PlacidDownhill
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place1980 Lake PlacidCombined

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

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
SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
19896 Jan 1989 Switzerland  Laax, SwitzerlandDownhill
19918 Dec 1990France Val d'Isère, FranceDownhill
199312 Dec 1992Italy Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill

World championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
197819—27not
run
——
198021182613
198223——15—
198526————
198728——488
198930——922—
199132———4—

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

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
1980211826not run1not run
198425———
198829——84—
199233———DNF—

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.