Behr achieved her greatest success in her career from 1971 to 1980 at the 1978 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the silver medal in slalom . In the World Cup , she took 8th place in the slalom in Grindelwald on January 18, 1972, her first point, with start no. 19 she had her premiere on the podium at the slalom in Pra-Loup on March 17, 1972 with second place and her first and only victory was also in a slalom race (December 9, 1972 in Val-d'Isère , which she did at the time was the youngest winner of a World Cup race). She came on the podium five times and made it into the top 10 22 times. Behr achieved her best position in the overall World Cup in the 1972/73 season with eleventh place. At the Olympic Games in 1972 she finished sixth and in 1976 fifth place, both in slalom. On February 11, 1976, she was ahead of Rosi Mittermaier and Claudia Giordani , but only for the seventh time in the second run let her fall back to fifth.
Behr was also seven times German champion in slalom between 1971 and 1979 . Her father, ski racer Sepp Behr , had also won seven championship titles between 1954 and 1962.
Pamela Behr is married to the FIS Marketing and Communications Director Christian Knauth and continues to work in skiing as the FIS Technical Delegate. In addition, she gives private ski lessons to private individuals in the Allgäu at the Hörnerbahn in Bolsterlang during the winter months.
World Cup victories
Behr achieved a total of 5 podium places, including 1 victory:
Germany
