Josef Bradl
Josef Bradl | ||||||||||||
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Country | Austria Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
Born | Wasserburg am Inn, German Empire | 8 January 1918|||||||||||
Died | 3 March 1982 Mühlbach am Hochkönig, Austria | (aged 64)|||||||||||
Ski club | SC Mühlbach am Hochkönig SC Bischofshofen SC Salzburg | |||||||||||
Personal best | 130 m (430 ft) Oberstdorf, Germany (1951) | |||||||||||
Four Hills titles | 1 (1953) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Josef "Sepp" / "Bubi" Bradl (8 January 1918 – 3 March 1982) was an Austrian ski jumper who competed during the 1930s and 1950s.[1] He was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria.
Career
He won the ski jumping gold medal at the 1939 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane while competing under Nazi Germany in the wake of Austria being annexed in late 1938. He was the first man to perform a "flight" of more than 100 meters, on 15 March 1936 in Planica, Slovenia.
Following World War II, Bradl wasn't allowed to compete in 1948 Olympics because he was a Sturmbannführer in the paramilitary Nazi organization Sturmabteilung. He returned to competition in the early 1950s and was the first winner of the Four Hills Tournament in 1952/53, this time representing his home country of Austria. He would earn one of his post-war victories at the Olympia hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany in 1953 as part of the Four Hills tournament, then earn his final career victory the following year in Bischofshofen, Austria. He lived in Mühlbach am Hochkönig in the province (state) Salzburg where he died in March 1982.
After retiring, he became a ski jumping coach, coaching the national teams of Germany and Austria.
Ski jumping world records
First standing jump over 100 metres in history.
Date | Hill | Location | Metres | Feet |
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15 March 1936 | Bloudkova velikanka K106 | Planica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 101.5 | 333 |
15 March 1938 | Bloudkova velikanka K106 | Planica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 107 | 351 |
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Josef Bradl Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
External links
- Josef Bradl at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. AUT Nationality
- 1918 births
- 1982 deaths
- People from Wasserburg am Inn
- Austrian male ski jumpers
- Austrian ski jumping coaches
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
- Olympic ski jumpers of Austria
- Ski jumpers at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Austrian ski jumping biography stubs