Gertrud Gabl
Gertrud Gabl c. 1968 | |
Personal information | |
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Born | (1948-08-26)26 August 1948 St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria |
Died | 18 January 1976(1976-01-18) (aged 27) St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria |
Occupation | Alpine skier |
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Skiing career | |
Disciplines | Downhill, giant slalom, slalom |
World Cup debut | January 1967 (age 18) inaugural season |
Retired | March 1972 (age 23) |
World Cup | |
Seasons | 6 – (1967-1972) |
Wins | 7 – (2 GS, 5 SL) |
Podiums | 17 – (7 GS, 10 SL) |
Overall titles | 1 – (1969) |
Discipline titles | 1 – (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.
Death
On 18 January 1976 Gabl was skiing with two friends on the northern slope of Mount Gamberg at the ski resort of St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria, when an avalanche buried the three, and she was killed. Her two companions were rescued alive. [4]
World Cup results
Season titles
- 2 titles – (1 overall, 1 slalom)
Season | |
Discipline | |
1969 | Overall |
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Slalom |
Season standings
Season | |||||||
Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
1967 | 18 | 18 | 11 | 19 | not run | — | not run |
1968 | 19 | 7 | 4 | — | |||
1969 | 20 | 19 | |||||
1970 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 13 | — | ||
1971 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 4 | — | ||
1972 | 23 | 19 | 12 | 19 | — |
Race victories
Season | |||
Date | Location | Discipline | |
1968 3 victories (2 SL, 1 GS) | 11 January 1968 | Grindelwald, Switzerland | Slalom |
5 April 1968 | Heavenly Valley, USA | Giant slalom | |
6 April 1968 | Slalom | ||
1969 4 victories (3 SL, 1 GS) | 4 January 1969 | Oberstaufen, West Germany | Slalom |
7 January 1969 | Grindelwald, Switzerland | Slalom | |
16 February 1969 | Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia | Slalom | |
17 February 1969 | Giant slalom |
World Championship results
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
1968 | 19 | DNF | 9 | not run | 12 | — |
1970 | 21 | 4 | 5 | — | — |
Olympic results
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
1968 | 19 | DNF | 9 | not run | 12 | — |
1972 | 23 | DNF | DNF | — | — |
References
- ^ a b Gertrud Gabl Archived July 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Gertrude Gabl. fis-ski.com
- ^ "skiidrett – verdenscupvinnere i alpint – Store norske leksikon". Snl.no. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ^ "Gertrud Gabl Succumbs After Avalanche Hits", Bridgeport (CT) Telegram, January 19, 1976, p. 8
External links
- Gertrud Gabl at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
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- 1968: Nancy Greene
- 1969: Gertrud Gabl
- 1970: Michèle Jacot
- 1971: Annemarie Pröll
- 1972: Annemarie Pröll
- 1973: Annemarie Pröll
- 1974: Annemarie Pröll
- 1975: Annemarie Moser-Pröll
- 1976: Rosi Mittermaier
- 1977: Lise-Marie Morerod
- 1978: Hanni Wenzel
- 1979: Annemarie Moser-Pröll
- 1980: Hanni Wenzel
- 1981: Marie-Theres Nadig
- 1982: Erika Hess
- 1983: Tamara McKinney
- 1984: Erika Hess
- 1985: Michela Figini
- 1986: Maria Walliser
- 1987: Maria Walliser
- 1988: Michela Figini
- 1989: Vreni Schneider
- 1990: Petra Kronberger
- 1991: Petra Kronberger
- 1992: Petra Kronberger
- 1993: Anita Wachter
- 1994: Vreni Schneider
- 1995: Vreni Schneider
- 1996: Katja Seizinger
- 1997: Pernilla Wiberg
- 1998: Katja Seizinger
- 1999: Alexandra Meissnitzer
- 2000: Renate Götschl
- 2001: Janica Kostelić
- 2002: Michaela Dorfmeister
- 2003: Janica Kostelić
- 2004: Anja Pärson
- 2005: Anja Pärson
- 2006: Janica Kostelić
- 2007: Nicole Hosp
- 2008: Lindsey Vonn
- 2009: Lindsey Vonn
- 2010: Lindsey Vonn
- 2011: Maria Riesch
- 2012: Lindsey Vonn
- 2013: Tina Maze
- 2014: Anna Fenninger
- 2015: Anna Fenninger
- 2016: Lara Gut
- 2017: Mikaela Shiffrin
- 2018: Mikaela Shiffrin
- 2019: Mikaela Shiffrin
- 2020: Federica Brignone
- 2021: Petra Vlhová
- 2022: Mikaela Shiffrin
- 2023: Mikaela Shiffrin
- 2024: Lara Gut-Behrami
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