Ingemar Stenmark

Medal record Men’s alpine skiing Olympic GamesGold 1980 Lake Placid Giant slalomGold 1980 Lake Placid SlalomBronze 1976 Innsbruck Giant slalomWorld Championships Gold 1978 Garmisch-PartenkirchenGiant slalom Gold 1978 Garmisch-PartenkirchenSlalom Gold 1982 SchladmingSlalom Silver 1982 SchladmingGiant slalom

Jan Ingemar Stenmark (born March 18, 1956 in Joesjö, Storumans municipality) is a former Swedish skier, active during the '70s and '80s. He is regarded as one of the most prominent Swedish sportsmen, and as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time. He competed for Fjällvinden Tärnaby.

Stenmark was born in the province of Lappland. His family moved to Tärnaby when he was four years old, where he became neighbours with Stig Strand, who would later win the World Cup Slalom title. He began skiing at the age of five and won his first national competition at the age of eight.

1 Competitive record
2 Other
3 World Cup victories
- 3.1 Overall
- 3.2 Individual victories
4 External links

Competitive record

Stenmark has won more alpine ski competitions than any other man with a total of 86 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, Hermann Maier being the second with 53 victories. He only won in two disciplines: slalom and giant slalom (the other events are downhill, super-G, which did not exist until 1982, and combined). Stenmark rarely competed in the other disciplines, as he was not comfortable with speeds in excess of 120 km/h (75 mph).

He won the Overall World Cup title three times in 1976-78. He also achieved four of the top ten most successful seasons ever in giant slalom competition. Stenmark won every giant slalom race during the 1977-78 (7 of 7) and 1978-79 seasons (10 of 10). In the 1979-80 season he won ten out of eleven giant slaloms. He has six of the top ten most successful seasons ever in slalom competition: he won all the slalom races during the 1975-76 season (7 of 7), and almost every slalom race in the 1976-77 (9 of 10), 1981-82 (8 of 9), 1979-80 (7 of 8), 1974-75 (7 of 8), and 1980-81 (8 of 10) seasons.

Including Alpine Skiing World Cup, FIS World Championships and Olympic competition, Stenmark finished as follows:

1st place: 92 times;
2nd place: 45 times;
3rd place: 28 times;
4th place: 10 times;
5th place: 13 times;
6th place: 10 times;
7th place: 8 times;
8th place: 7 times;
9th place: 5 times;
10th place: 4 times.

Stenmark was not allowed to participate in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo due to his status as a professional and therefore could not defend his gold medals from 1980. In the 1988 Games he was allowed back into the Olympic competition.

For his three straight World Alpine Skiing World Cup titles (1976-78), Stenmark earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1979 (Shared with Erik Håker and Raisa Smetanina). Stenmark also earned the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal twice as well (1975 & 1978). His 1978 medal was shared with tennis player Björn Borg, making them the only two men to ever win the honor twice (female alpine skier Anja Pärsson received the medal in 2006 and 2007).

Other

During the years from 1976-78 Stenmark, along with tennis player Björn Borg, became a national icon in Sweden. This was not changed by the fact that he - for tax reasons - soon moved to Monaco. On December 26, 2004 he survived the Indian Ocean earthquake while on vacation in Thailand. Stenmark also won the 1996 Swedish Superstars championship.

World Cup victories

Overall

Season Discipline 1975Giant Slalom 1975Slalom 1976Overall 1976Giant Slalom 1976Slalom 1977Overall 1977Giant Slalom 1977Slalom 1978Overall 1978Giant Slalom 1978Slalom 1979Giant Slalom 1979Slalom 1980Giant Slalom 1980Slalom 1981Giant Slalom 1981Slalom 1983Slalom 1984Giant Slalom

Individual victories

Date Location Race 17 December 1974 Madonna di CampiglioSlalom 12 January 1975 WengenSlalom 23 February 1975 NaebaGiant Slalom 2 March 1975 GaribaldiGiant Slalom 13 March 1975 Sun ValleyGiant Slalom 15 December 1975 Sterzing / VipitenoSlalom 11 January 1976 Wengen Slalom 24 January 1976 KitzbühelSlalom 27 January 1976 ZwieselGiant Slalom 7 March 1976 Copper Mountain, U.S.Slalom 14 March 1976 AspenSlalom 3 januari 1977 LaaxSlalom 10 January 1977 BerchtesgadenSlalom 16 January 1977 Kitzbühel Slalom 23 January 1977 Wengen Slalom 6 February 1977 St. AntonSlalom 6 March 1977 Sun ValleyGiant Slalom 18 March 1977 VossSlalom 20 March 1977 ÅreSlalom 21 March 1977 Åre Giant Slalom 25 March 1977 Sierra NevadaGiant Slalom 10 December 1977 Val d'IsèreGiant Slalom 13 December 1977 Madonna di Campiglio Slalom 14 December 1977 Madonna di Campiglio Giant Slalom 5 January 1978 OberstaufenSlalom 8 January 1978 ZwieselGiant Slalom 9 January 1978 Zwiesel Slalom 18 March 1978 ArosaGiant Slalom 9 December 1978 SchladmingGiant Slalom 21 December 1978 Kranjska GoraSlalom 22 December 1978 Kranjska Gora Giant Slalom 7 January 1979 CourchevelGiant Slalom 16 January 1979 AdelbodenGiant Slalom 23 January 1979 SteinachGiant Slalom 4 February 1979 JasnáGiant Slalom 10 February 1979 Åre Giant Slalom 11 February 1979 Åre Slalom 4 March 1979 Lake Placid Giant Slalom 12 March 1979 Heavenly ValleyGiant Slalom 17 March 1979 FuranoSlalom 19 March 1979 Furano Slalom 8 December 1979 Val d'Isère Giant Slalom 11 December 1979 Madonna di Campiglio Slalom 12 December 1979 Madonna di Campiglio Giant Slalom 21 January 1980 Adelboden Giant Slalom 27 January 1980 ChamonixSlalom 27 February 1980 Waterville ValleySlalom 1 March 1980 Mont-Sainte-AnneGiant Slalom 10 March 1980 Cortina d'AmpezzoSlalom 11 March 1980 Cortina d'Ampezzo Giant Slalom 13 March 1980 SaalbachGiant Slalom 15 March 1980 Saalbach Slalom 9 December 1980 Madonna di Campiglio Slalom 10 December 1980 Madonna di Campiglio Giant Slalom 6 January 1981 MorzineGiant Slalom 18 January 1981 Kitzbühel Slalom 26 January 1981 Adelboden Giant Slalom 1 February 1981 St AntonSlalom 2 February 1981 SchladmingGiant Slalom 8 February 1981 OsloSlalom 11 February 1981 VossGiant Slalom 14 February 1981 Åre Giant Slalom 9 January 1982 MorzineGiant Slalom 12 January 1982 Bad WiesseeSlalom 17 January 1982 Kitzbühel Slalom 19 January 1982 Adelboden Giant Slalom 9 February 1982 KirchbergGiant Slalom 14 December 1982 CourmayeurSlalom 23 January 1983 Kitzbühel Slalom 11 February 1983 Markstein Slalom 13 February 1983 TodtnauGiant Slalom 26 February 1983 GällivareGiant Slalom 13 December 1983 Courmayeur Slalom 20 December 1983 Madonna di Campiglio Slalom 10 January 1984 Adelboden Giant Slalom 17 January 1984 ParpanSlalom 23 January 1984 KirchbergGiant Slalom 4 February 1984 BorovetzGiant Slalom 7 March 1984 VailGiant Slalom 15 December 1985 Alta BadiaGiant Slalom 25 January 1986 St Anton Slalom 27 February 1986 HemsedalGiant Slalom 18 March 1986 Lake PlacidGiant Slalom 29 November 1986 SestrièresSlalom 14 February 1987 Markstein Slalom 19 February 1989 Aspen, ColoradoGiant Slalom

External links

FIS-Ski: Ingemar Stenmark - statistics
Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
Ski-db.com - Ingemar Stenmark