Austrian Winter Olympic Medalist Introduction - Toni Sailer, Thomas Morgenstern, Angelika Neuner, Manfred Schmid, Josef Feistmantl (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Chapters: Toni Sailer, Thomas Morgenstern, Angelika Neuner, Manfred Schmid, Josef Feistmantl, Andrea Tagwerker, Nicole Hosp, Siegfried Grabner, Ewald Walch, Andreas Kofler, Martin Hollwarth, Ilse Pausin, Erik Pausin, Thomas Stangassinger, Heinz Kuttin, Doris Neuner, Mario Stecher, Helene Thurner, Putzi Frandl, Traudl Hecher, Helmut Thaler, Ingo Appelt, Stefan Horngacher, Christoph Bieler, Markus Schmidt, Andreas Matt, Karl Schnabl, Martin Rettl, Christian Mayer, Reinhold Senn, Christian Pravda, Franz Schachner, Michael Gruber, Elfi Eder, Hubert Strolz, Georg Fluckinger, Erwin Thaler, Erika Mahringer, Dagmar Rom, Heinrich Messner, Hias Leitner, Herbert Gruber, Harald Winkler, Thomas Schroll, Gerhard Haidacher, Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Adolf Koxeder, Karl Schrott, Wiltrud Drexel, Josef Nairz, Othmar Schneider, Thea Hochleitner, Hans Enn, Edith Zimmermann, Helmut Mayer, Herbert Huber, Resi Hammerer, Alfred Matt, Reinhold Bachler, Brigitte Kock, Franz Gabl, Regina Schopf, Walter Schuster, Christian Moser, Toni Spiss, Josef Eder, Baldur Preiml, Stefan Kreiner. Excerpt: Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer (17 November 1935, Kitzbuhel - 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, who is considered to be among the best the sport has ever produced. Up to and including 1956 the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships and the Winter Olympics were held together as one. Therefore during that era the Olympic Champion was also the World Champion; though there were no medals awarded for the "Alpine skiing combined" at the time. Sailer, nicknamed "Blitz from Kitz" (Blitz = German word for "bolt of lightning" or "flash"), was born in Kitzbuhel. He was the first skier at the Winter Olympics to win all three alpine skiing events, taking gold in the downhill, slalom, and giant slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, ...