Talk:Leonhard Stock

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Some notes

I would like to try to give some notes; I no most of it by myself but I would like to cit. German Wikipedia:

First points he could gain on January 8th, 1977, finishing 8th in the downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Mr. Stock had an accident in the training for downhill races at Val-d’Isère (carried out on December 7th) in the first days of December 1979, injured in a shoulder and a knee. But he worked hard, therefore he could finish fifth in the Lauberhorn downhill race on January, 18th. So he became a substitute for the Olympics. I would like to point out that it was debatable if he could be able to repeat the performance of the trainings (you know all circumstances regarding such a great race). But that race track on the Whiteface Mountain seemed to be tailor-made for him; he won with a margin of 0.62 seconds ahead his team-mate Peter Wirnsberger. It was a barren spell until his next win littered by injuries (f.e. on January 7th, 1984, at Laax, having lumbar vertebra fractures, missing the 1984 Olympics). After changing material before 1985/86-season, Mr. Stock was able to achieve better rankings. But not before January 6th, 1989, having 19 places on the podium in the meantime, he couldn't win. - Okay, there was a win: He could achieve it on December 28th, 1986, in the "Parallel" at the Teufelsberg (you may find the race archived as Berlin-race) but that race did only count for the nations cup. (Cit. "Arbeiterzeitung Vienna" from December 29th, 1986, page 17, and "Wetter: Als der Kalte Krieg in Berlin auf der Skipiste tobte - DIE WELT" - http://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13859146/Als-der-Kalte-Krieg-in-Berlin-auf-der-Skipiste-tobte.html").

Besides his three wins in World Cup downhill races, he finished 22 times on the podium (second places: DH 5, Super-G 1, Combined 4; third place: DH 4, Super-G 3, Combined 3).

Another note is that he became the oldest winner of a downhill race (Val Gardena December 12th, 1992), being 34 years, 8 month, 19 days. Eleven years later (Mr. Stock had retired many years before), his team-mate Stephan Eberharter did supersede (Chamonix, January 10th, 2004; 34 years, 9 month, 17 days), followed by Marco Büchel - and the current one is Didier Cuche. (213.225.0.117 (talk) 14:56, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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