Gertrud Gabl

Gertrud Gabl

Gertrud Gabl c. 1968
Personal information
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 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

• 7 wins – (5 SL, 2 GS)
• 17 podiums – (10 SL, 7 GS)

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

Olympic results

References

External links

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