People from Judenburg District - Renate Gtschl, Christoph Sumann, Heinz Schilcher, Christian Muthspiel (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Renate Gtschl (born August 6, 1975, in Judenburg, Austria) is a former champion alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and a silver in the combined. Gtschl made her World Cup debut in 1993, on March 14, 1993, winning the slalom in Lillehammer, Norway. This was followed by more than 100 podium (top 3) results, including at least one win in four of the five disciplines; only a giant slalom win has eluded her so far. She won the overall World Cup title in 2000, and she has also won five World Cup discipline titles in downhill (1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, and 2007), three in Super-G (2000, 2004 and 2007), and two in combined (2000 and 2002). Gtschl has won nine medals at the World Championships, including gold medals in combined (1997) in downhill (1999) and in team event (2007). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in combined and a bronze medal in the downhill. On January 28, 2007, when she was second in a Super-G in San Sicario, she celebrated her 100th podium in World Cup. Her total of 46 World Cup race wins (as of March 14, 2007) is third all-time among women, behind only Annemarie Moser-Prll and Vreni Schneider. One of her favorite slopes is in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where she became the first alpine skier ever to win 10 races at a single World Cup venue. 46 total wins: 24 downhill, 17 Super-G, 1 slalom, 4 combined ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2424607