Grief for Max Bolkert. The ski jumping pioneer was the oldest still living winner of the four-hill tour.
The German ski jumping pioneer Max Bolkart died at the age of 92. The Oberstdorfer was the oldest still living winner of the four -hill tour.
In the winter of 1959/60, Molkart was the first West German jumper to win the ride over the four ski jumps – only in 1990 the second followed in Dieter Thoma.
“It was now a redemption for him,” said his daughter Margret Bolkart-Fetz of the Allgäuer Zeitung. Her father recently suffered from severe dementia.
Bolkart narrowly missed Grand Slam
Bolkart even stood in 1960 to Siegen in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck shortly before the Grand Slam. Because it “only” ranked fifth at the final in Bischofshofen, this feat only made Sven Hannawald 42 years later.
“It is a nice feeling when your name appears again every year in the winning statistics,” Bolkart once told the world.
Pioneer Bolkart flew to further success with chesthosen, poodle hat and white mottels. He became a tour of the tour of the Olympics in 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo ungrateful fourth, 1960 in Squaw Valley sixth.
Many of his trophies are exhibited today in the Freiberg family hotel. There is also the pressure cooker that the ski jumping pioneer received in 1960 after his near-grand slam.