Gertrud Gabl

Gertrud Gabl
Gertrud Gabl c. 1968
Personal information
Born(1948-08-26)26 August 1948
St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria
Died18 January 1976(1976-01-18) (aged 27)
St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, giant slalom, slalom
World Cup debutJanuary 1967 (age 18)
inaugural season
RetiredMarch 1972 (age 23)
World Cup
Seasons6 – (1967-1972)
Wins7 – (2 GS, 5 SL)
Podiums17 – (7 GS, 10 SL)
Overall titles1 – (1969)
Discipline titles1 – (1 SL)

Gertrud Gabl (26 August 1948 – 18 January 1976) was an alpine skier from Austria. She competed in several events at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics with the best result of 9th place in the giant slalom in 1968.[1][2]

Her best season was 1968/69, when she won the Alpine Skiing World Cup.[3] Her uncle Franz Gabl was also an Olympic alpine skier.[1]

In the 1968 Winter Olympics she was 9th in the giant slalom and 12th in the downhill; she didn't finish the slalom. In the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1970 she was 4th in the slalom and 5th in the giant slalom.

In the World Cup she scored her first world cup points on 19 January 1967, when she finished fifth in the slalom at Schruns. Later she went on to win five slaloms and two giant slaloms.

Her father Josef was also an excellent ski racer.

She won the Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1969, the same year as Karl Schranz did it for the men. Both of them came from the same village, St. Anton am Arlberg, ant that is the only time that the women's and men's overall champions hailed from the same village.

  1. ^ a b Gertrud Gabl Archived July 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Gertrude Gabl. fis-ski.com
  3. ^ "skiidrett – verdenscupvinnere i alpint – Store norske leksikon". Snl.no. Retrieved 2014-05-18.

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