Patrick Ortlieb

Patrick Ortlieb (born May 17, 1967 in Bregenz) is a former champion alpine ski racer from Austria. He was an Olympic and world champion in the downhill event.

Ortlieb started skiing relatively late at the age of 13. A speed event specialist, he won the downhill event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in France, gathered 20 podiums and 60 top tens at World Cup races, and was World Champion in 1996 in downhill. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he finished fourth in the downhill.^[1] A month earlier, he won the famed downhill on the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, Austria.

Five years later in January 1999, Ortlieb's racing career ended after a serious crash during a practice run on the same slope at Kitzbühel. Later in the 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 four-star hotel, named Hotel Montana, in Lech am Arlberg in Vorarlberg.

World cup victories

References

External links

• Patrick Ortlieb at the International Ski Federation
• Ski-db.com - results - Patrick Ortlieb