Ingemar Stenmark biography
Ingemar Stenmark, (born March 18, 1956, Josesjö, Lapland, Sweden), Swedish Alpine skier, a slalom specialist, who was one of the crucial profitable performers within the historical past of the game. In 1976 he grew to become the primary Scandinavian to win the Alpine World Cup (then primarily based on slalom, big slalom, and downhill races). He repeated the victory in 1977–78. At the time of his retirement he had received 86 World Cup races, greater than some other skier.
Stenmark started snowboarding at Tärnaby on the age of 5 and received his first nationwide competitors on the age of eight. He educated from the age of 13 with the Swedish junior nationwide staff and received his first World Cup race late in 1974. He loved his biggest season in 1979, when he received 13 particular person World Cup races, bettering the season report of the French skier Jean-Claude Killy (12 races in 1967).
At the 1976 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, Stenmark received the bronze medal for the enormous slalom, and on the 1980 Games in Lake Placid, New York, U.S., he received gold medals for each the slalom and big slalom competitions.
Stenmark, a perfectionist by nature, most well-liked the precision of the slalom occasions to the all-out daring of the downhill, an occasion he seldom skied. With the foundations change in 1978 setting a most variety of factors for specialty skiers, he didn't win the World Cup total title thereafter, though he continued to win World Cup titles for the slalom and big slalom occasions. He retired from the game in 1989.