Karl Schranz
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Schranz at Kitzbühel
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| Disciplines |
Downhill, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Combined |
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| Born |
18 November 1938 St. Anton, Tyrol, Austria |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | January 1967 (age 28) inaugural season |
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| Retired | February 1972 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | karlschranz.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (1960, 1964, 1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 6 – (1960–70) includes three Olympics |
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| Medals | 6 (3 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 6 – (1967–72) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 12 – (8 DH, 4 GS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 23 – (12 DH, 9 GS, 2 SL) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 2 – (1969, 1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 3 – (2 DH, 1 GS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Karl Schranz (born 18 November 1938) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria, one of the best of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Born and raised in St. Anton, Tyrol, Schranz had a lengthy ski career, from 1957 to 1972. He won twenty major downhills, many major giant slalom races and several major slaloms. Late in his career he was the successor to Jean-Claude Killy as the World Cup overall champion; Schranz won the title at age 30 in the third World Cup season of 1969, and repeated in 1970. He was also the downhill champion for those two seasons and was the giant slalom season champion in 1969. Schranz won the both the "classic downhills" four times each: the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel, Austria, (1966,1969, 1972,1972), and the Lauberhorn at Wengen, Switzerland, (1959, 1963, 1966, 1969). He also excelled at the legendary Arlberg-Kandahar events, winning nine times, from 1957 (Chamonix) to 1970 (Garmisch-Partenkirchen).
Schranz' father was a tunnel worker in St. Anton, which led to an early death from tuberculosis; his widow was left to raise five children. In addition to the hardship their house burned down. At age 12, Schranz became an apprentice ski maker, worked in a sawmill, and later became a ski tester. Schranz began skiing before age five on salvaged broken skis, left by tourists and reworked by his father.
While just age 18, he won the first of three consecutive Arlberg-Kandahar downhill and combined titles at Chamonix in March 1957. Schranz won again the following year, rotated back to his hometown at St. Anton, and also in 1959 at Garmisch, West Germany. He missed the 1958 World Championships in Bad Gastein due to illness.
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