Leonhard Stock
{{short description|Austrian alpine skier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox alpine ski racer
|name = Leonhard Stock
|image = Leonhard Stock.png
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|disciplines = Speed events
|club = WSV Zell am Ziller
|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|14 March 1958}}
|birth_place = Zell am Ziller or Finkenberg, Tyrol, Austria
|death_date =
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|height = 1.83 m
|wcdebut = 1977
|retired = 1993
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|olympicteams = 4
|olympicmedals = 1
|olympicgolds =
|worldsteams = 7
|worldsmedals = 2
|worldsgolds =
|wcseasons = 17
|wcwins = 3
|wcpodiums = 25
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|show-medals = yes
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{{Medal|Sport|Men's alpine skiing}}
{{Medal|Country|{{AUT}}}}
{{MedalCount|total=yes|type=World Cup race podiums
| Downhill | 3 | 5 | 4
| Super-G | 0 | 1 | 5
| Combined | 0 | 4 | 3
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{{MedalCount| total = yes|type=International competitions
|Olympic Games | 1 | 0 | 0
|World Championships | 1 | 0 | 1
|Junior World Championships | 2 | 2 | 0
}}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalGold | 1980 Lake Placid | Downhill }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 1980 Lake Placid | Combined }}
}}
Leonhard Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.{{cite web|url=https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=AL&competitorid=58914|title=Leonhard Stock profile|website=fis-ski.com|access-date=13 October 2022}}
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.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/leonhard-stock-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418005236/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/leonhard-stock-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18}}
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.[http://www.olympiahotel.at/portrait-leonhard-stock.html Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518185639/http://www.olympiahotel.at/portrait-leonhard-stock.html |date=18 May 2016 }} at olympiahotel website.
World Cup victories
- 3 wins (3 DH), 27 podiums
| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
! Season !! Date !! Location !! Discipline | |||
| 1989 | align=right | 6 Jan 1989 | align=left | {{flagicon|SUI}} Laax, Switzerland | Downhill |
| 1991 | align=right | 8 Dec 1990 | align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} Val d'Isère, France | Downhill |
| 1993 | align=right | 12 Dec 1992 | align=left | {{flagicon|ITA}} Val Gardena, Italy | Downhill |
World championship results
| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant | ||||||
| 1978 | 19 | — | 27 | rowspan=4 | not run | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | 18 | 26 | style="background:gold;" | 1 | style="background:#c96;" | 3 | |
| 1982 | 23 | — | — | 15 | — | |
| 1985 | 26 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1987 | 28 | — | — | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| 1989 | 30 | — | — | 9 | 22 | — |
| 1991 | 32 | — | — | — | 4 | — |
From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.
Olympic results [[File:Olympic rings.svg|50px]]
References
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External links
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- {{Ski-DB}}
{{Footer Olympic Champions Downhill Men}}
{{Footer World Champions Downhill Men}}
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Category:Austrian male alpine skiers
Category:Olympic alpine skiers for Austria
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Austria
Category:Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Category:Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Category:Recipients of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria