Karl Schnabl

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Innsbruck Individual large hill
Bronze 1976 Innsbruck Individual normal hill
Men's ski flying
World Championships
Bronze 1975 Kulm Individual

Karl Schnabl (born March 8, 1954) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the 1970s.

His best known successes were at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, where he won a gold medal in the individual large hill event and a bronze medal in the individual normal hill event. Schnabl also won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1976. He also won a bronze at the 1975 Ski flying World Championships.

Since finishing medical school at Innsbruck University he has been working as a traumatology surgeon.

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Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill
1924: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1928: Alf Andersen * 1932: Birger Ruud * 1936: Birger Ruud * 1948: Petter Hugsted * 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann * 1956: Antti Hyvärinen * 1960: Helmut Recknagel * 1964: Toralf Engan * 1968: Vladimir Belussov * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna * 1976: Karl Schnabl * 1980: Jouko Törmänen * 1984: Matti Nykänen * 1988: Matti Nykänen * 1992: Toni Nieminen * 1994: Jens Weissflog * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki * 2002: Simon Ammann * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern
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