Elisabeth Pall

Elisabeth Pall
nation	Austria
birthday	15th February 1951 (age 69)
place of birth	Bischofshofen , Austria
size	163 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom, downhill, combination
society	TS Innsbruck
status	resigned
End of career	1970
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1968  Overall World Cup 52nd (1968)  Downhill World Cup 28th (1968)

Elisabeth "Lisi" Pall (born February 15, 1951 in Bischofshofen ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the end of the 1960s she won several FIS races, including the World Cup .

Career

Elisabeth Pall was born in Salzburg's Bischofshofen, but her family soon moved to Solbad Hall in Tyrol . Like her older sister Olga , she started skiing at an early age and became a good runner, especially in technical disciplines. After she had already proven her talent in school and youth races, she achieved her first major successes in several FIS races in the winter of 1966/67: She won the giant slalom and the combined in Oppdal as well as the slalom in Åre and came in more three races on the podium. As a result, she was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association in 1967.

Pall competed in her first World Cup races in the winter of 1968 and on January 17, 1968, finishing ninth in the downhill from Bad Gastein, made it into the World Cup points for the first and only time. This result enabled her to start at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble . There she was completely in the shadow of her successful sister and was only 27th in the giant slalom. On April 4, 1968, she suffered a fractured tibia and fibula in a car accident in Heavenly Valley, USA , which interrupted her career for a long time. In the winter of 1969/70 she tried a comeback, but did not get past eighth place in the FIS slalom in Sterzing . Pall then ended her career in the spring of 1970.

successes

winter Olympics

• Grenoble 1968 : 27th giant slalom

World championships

• Grenoble 1968 : 27th giant slalom

World cup

• A placement in the top ten

More Achievements

• Three victories in FIS races, another three podium places

Web links

• Elisabeth Pall in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Elisabeth Pall in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Elisabeth Pall in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Broken legs of the Pall sisters. Arbeiter-Zeitung , April 6, 1968, p. 12 , accessed on March 16, 2015 .