Olga Pall

Olga Pall ( born December 3, 1947 in Gostling an der Ybbs, Lower Austria ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. It was 1968 Olympic gold medalist and world champion in the downhill at the same time. In the same year she won equal points with the Frenchwoman Isabelle Mir also the downhill World Cup. She was also in 1968 and 1969 Austrian Champion in this discipline.

Career

Olga Pall was born in Lower Austria, moved the age of three with her family to Bischofshofen and a little later after Solbadhotel Hall in Tirol. Her youngest sister Elisabeth was also a ski racer.

At the beginning of the 1960s reach Pall initial success in school and youth races. In 1965 she celebrated her first major victory in the departure of Madonna di Campiglio, a year later, she finished second in the combination of Saint- Gervais- les- Bains. In 1966 she was inducted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Federation. In the first World Cup season 1967, she finished sixth in the downhill race of the Gold Key in Schruns as the best result. Greater success they had in races outside of the World Cup, for which she won the giant slalom and giant slalom Zürs of Innsbruck was second.

In the winter of 1968 Pall was also in the World Cup to the top runner and celebrated the departure of the silver jug race in Bad Gastein on January 17, her first World Cup victory. The highlight of her career featured the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble 1968 dar. Pall was only counted in the downhill to the Mitfavoritinnen, the international trade press tapped but the Frenchwoman Isabelle Mir. This was after her run in the lead, but the 20 -year-old Pall she could beat by almost half a second, was Olympic champion and world champion at the same time. In the giant slalom she reached then still the fifth and ninth in the slalom, which she was fifth in scoring only as a World Championship Event Combination results. With two World Cup victories ( the Olympic competitions were also part of the World Cup ) and a second place won Pall 1968 equal points with Isabelle Mir the downhill World Cup, in the overall standings, she was eighth. In addition, she was Austrian Champion in the downhill. Due to their success was chosen in 1968 to Austrian Sportswoman of the Year.

Beginning of January 1969 came Pall for the only time in a World Cup giant slalom on the podium, celebrated on 31 January in the departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar Race their next World Cup victory and came in the 1968/69 season in third place in the downhill World Cup. Their Austrian league title they successfully defended. In the season 1969/70, however, their performance decreased significantly, the fifth place in the departure of Bad Gastein was her only top ten result. In the 1970 World Cup in Val Gardena they only came on the 13 exit rank. At the end of the winter Pall announced her retirement from ski racing.

Olga Pall then trained as a physiotherapist and remained closely connected to skiing. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and Sarajevo in 1984, she worked as a caregiver for the Austrian team. From 1990 to 2002 she was Vice- President of the Austrian Ski Federation, and later she was appointed honorary president. Her husband Ernst Scartezzini worked for many years as an active athlete and sports official. From 1986 to 2004 he was President of the Tyrolean Ski Association, he was also named one of the honorary president of the Austrian Ski Federation in 2005.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Grenoble 1968: 1st exit, 5 Giant Slalom, Slalom 9

World Championships

  • Grenoble 1968: 1st exit, 5 Giant Slalom, 5 combination, 9 slalom
  • Gardena 1970: 13 Departure

World Cup

  • Season 1968: 8th overall World Cup, 1st exit summary
  • Season 1968/1969: 3rd exit summary
  • 5 podiums including 3 victories:

Austrian Championships

  • Two times Austrian Champion in downhill in 1968 and 1969

Awards

  • Austrian Sportswoman of the Year 1968
  • Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria 1996
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