Leonhard Stock

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

Leonhard Stock
Personal information
Born14 March 1958 (1958-03-14) (age 62)
Zell am Ziller or Finkenberg, Tyrol, Austria
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
SportAlpine skiing
ClubWSV Zell am Ziller

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.[1]

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.[2]

World Cup victories

  • 3 wins (3 DH), 27 podiums
SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
19896 Jan 1989   Laax, SwitzerlandDownhill
19918 Dec 1990 Val d'Isère, FranceDownhill
199312 Dec 1992 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill

World championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
19781927not
run
198021182613
19822315
198526
198728488
198930922
1991324

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
19882984
199233DNF

References

  1. 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.
  2. Biography Archived 18 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine at olympiahotel website.
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