Still at times when Hans crankl and Herbert Prohaska The then Kurier sports director got their professional careers Josef Huber In an effort to reinforce the sports editorial team with a lady, to hear “No thanks, football is too proletoid ‘. And I wouldn’t like anything to do with crazy runners.”
In the 79s, the respected head of a long-term editorial conference, which I wanted to leave impatiently because of my fellow kicking, at a Wiener-Liga game, reacted with the words “but colleague, sweating is indecent.”
On March 25 ’84, the day of the first Viennese city marathon, drivers scolded the courier phone, as they would have to drive because of “a few foolish” detours. And the otherwise estimated chronicle editor agreed to the callers.
794 men (including six, who even start 41 years later) and 25 women saw the goal at the 1984 Vienna premiere after 42.195 kilometers.
In the meantime, endurance sports have become socially acceptable. In the Wienerwald, more women feel like men than men. An impression that seems to be confirmed by the record number of 45,000 registrations because …
- … for the first time the proportion of women in the participant sorry over 25 percent (in 1984 it was 2%);
- And for the first time for the 5-kilometer run, which also leads past the Burgtheater in the finish, more women (= 52 percent) sought a start number than men.
In short: it is run as much than ever. What also applies to women’s football, although sometimes remains unpopular. As in the 1: 3 against the Netherlands in the sold -out stadium of Almelo, where the Austrians, decreased by a woman referee, alternately the false pass and strong Dutch women.
In such international matches, women often cover a quarter marathon distance. And more than the men’s stars in the 1970s. As geniuses like Franz Beckenbauer, Before and Johan Cruyff The (ball-technical) measure of all things and women as TV footballers were still unthinkable.