Lisi Pall

Elizabeth " Lisi " Pall (* February 15, 1951 in Bischofshofen ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. End of the 1960s reach her ​​several victories in FIS races in the World Cup it was at the start.

Career

Elisabeth Pall was born in Salzburg Bischofshofen, but her family moved soon after Solbadhotel Hall in Tirol. She began, as well as her older sister Olga, early on skis and was mainly in the technical disciplines a good runner. After she had put her talent already at school and youth during the race, you get in the winter 1966/67, the first major success in several FIS races: You won the giant slalom and the combination in Oppdal and the slalom in Åre and came in further three races on the podium. Thus it was included in the national team of the Austrian Ski Federation in 1967.

In the winter of 1968 Pall denied their first World Cup race and finished on January 17, 1968 in ninth place in the departure of Bad Gastein for the first and only time in the World Cup points ranking. This result allowed her a place in the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble. There, however, it was all in the shadow of her successful sister, and drove only ranked 27 in the giant slalom. In early April 1968, she suffered in a car accident in the U.S. Heavenly Valley a tibia and fibula fracture, which her ​​career was interrupted a long time. In the winter of 1969/70 she attempted a comeback, but did not get beyond an eighth place in the FIS slalom Sterzing. Then Pall ended her career in the spring of 1970.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Grenoble 1968: 27 Giant Slalom

World Championships

  • Grenoble 1968: 27 Giant Slalom

World Cup

  • A place in the top ten

Other successes

  • Three wins in FIS races, a further three podiums
Olga Pall Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
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