Hans-Peter Lanig

Hans -Peter Lanig ( born December 7, 1935 in Hindelang ) is a former German ski racer. Lanig is a seven-time German champion. At the Olympic Winter Games 1960 he won the silver medal in the downhill.

Lanig was like his sister Evi in the 1950s, one of the best drivers of the German Ski Association. His first league titles he won in 1954. Two years later he took in Cortina d'Ampezzo for the first time participate in the Olympic Winter Games. Despite a fall he reached the fifth place in the downhill, giant slalom, he was seventh.

The greatest success of his career came in 1960 at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley. With five tenths of Frenchman Jean Vuarnet Lanig won the silver medal in the downhill. In the scoring only for the world championship he finished third combination. For his success drew him in the same year the Federal President Heinrich Lübke the Silver bay leaf.

After completion of the Games Lanig remained in the United States, to work in hotels. From 1962 to 1966 he was the coach of the German national ski team. The mid-1960s, he took over the café in upper yoke of his parents. In the following years he built it to a sports hotel and also took over the leadership of the local ski school.

His brother Axel Lanig and his sister Evi Lanig was, also part of the German power peak ski racer, brother Lorenz Nieberl bobsledder and son Peter Lanig freestyle skis.