Harald Paumgarten

Harald paumgarten ( born April 4, 1904 in Graz, † February 6, 1952 in St. Anton am Arlberg) was an Austrian cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, ski racer and ski jumper.

In international competitions could paumgarten numerous victories in the second half of the 1920s, mainly in the Nordic disciplines, celebrate. His first major event was the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 in St. Moritz. He went to the cross-country skiing on 18 km and in the individual Nordic Combined. In both competitions, he reached the 17th place. The first Alpine World Skiing Championships in 1931 in the Swiss Murren started paumgarten in the " long run ", in which no World Championship medals were awarded, and finished behind his teammate Gustav Lantschner and the British Christopher Mackintosh third place.

As early as 1930 had founded a ski school in Sugar Hill, in the U.S. state of New Hampshire paumgarten, and therefore no longer took part in so many competitions. At the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid was already living in the U.S. paumgarten standard-bearer of the Austrian delegation. In competitions it reached in the single combination to 18th place, came in ski jumping and cross-country skiing on the 25th to the 29th place. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 in Innsbruck, he won in the relay competition of ski touring 4x10 km together with Toni Gstrein, Hermann Gadner and Balthasar Niederkofler the bronze medal.

On February 6, 1952 paumgarten was buried in one of his many visits home on Galzig eastern slope in an avalanche and was found dead.

Harald paumgarten was the brother of the Nordic combiner Fridtjof paumgarten and the skier Gerda paumgarten and the grandfather of U.S. rower Doug Burden.