Patrick Ortlieb
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| Gold | 1992 Albertville | Downhill | |
Patrick Ortlieb (born May 17, 1967 in Bregenz) is a former Austrian skier who won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.
Ortlieb started skiing relatively late at the age of 13. A downhill specialist, he won this event at the 1992 Winter Olympics, gathered 18 medals at World Cup races, and became World Champion in 1996. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he came in 4th in the downhill race.
In 1999 he had to end his career after a serious crash during a practice run on the Hahnenkamm slope in Kitzbühel. In the same year, he was elected to the National Council of Austria for the far-right/populist Freedom Party of Austria, where he stayed for three years. He currently runs a hotel in Oberlech in Vorarlberg.
| Olympic champions in men's downhill |
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| 1948: Henri Oreiller | 1952: Zeno Colò | 1956: Toni Sailer | 1960: Jean Vuarnet | 1964: Egon Zimmermann | 1968: Jean-Claude Killy | 1972: Bernhard Russi | 1976: Franz Klammer | 1980: Leonhard Stock | 1984: Bill Johnson | 1988: Pirmin Zurbriggen | 1992: Patrick Ortlieb | 1994: Tommy Moe | 1998: Jean-Luc Crétier | 2002: Fritz Strobl | 2006: Antoine Dénériaz |
| World Champions in Men's Downhill |
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| 1931: Walter Prager | 1932: Gustav Lantschner | 1933: Walter Prager | 1934: David Zogg | 1935: Franz Zingerle | 1936: Rudolf Rominger | 1937: Emile Allais | 1938: James Couttet | 1939: Hellmut Lantschner | 1948: Henri Oreiller | 1950: Zeno Colò | 1952: Zeno Colò | 1954: Christian Pravda | 1956: Anton Sailer | 1958: Anton Sailer | 1960: Jean Vuarnet | 1962: Karl Schranz | 1964: Egon Zimmermann | 1966: Jean-Claude Killy | 1968: Jean-Claude Killy | 1970: Bernhard Russi | 1972: Bernhard Russi | 1974: David Zwilling | 1976: Franz Klammer | 1978: Josef Walcher | 1980: Leonhard Stock | 1982: Harti Weirather | 1985: Pirmin Zurbriggen | 1987: Peter Müller | 1989: Hans-Jörg Tauscher | 1991: Franz Heinzer | 1993: Urs Lehmann | 1996: Patrick Ortlieb | 1997: Bruno Kernen | 1999: Hermann Maier | 2001: Hannes Trinkl | 2003: Michael Walchhofer | 2005: Bode Miller |
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Ortlieb, Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | downhill skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bregenz, Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
