Albert Pfeifer
Albert Pfeifer 
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| birthday | December 15, 1919 |
| place of birth | St. Anton am Arlberg |
| date of death | August 11, 1943 |
| Place of death | Netherlands |
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| discipline | Downhill , slalom , combination |
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Ski Club Arlberg Sports Group Ordensburg Sonthofen |
| End of career | 1941 |
Albert Pfeifer (born December 15, 1919 in St. Anton am Arlberg , † August 11, 1943 in the Netherlands ) was an Austrian and German ski racer . In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he took several top positions in international races. At the later not officially recognized World Cup in 1941 , he won the gold medal in slalom.
Career
Pfeifer started skiing relatively early, his older brother Friedl (1911–1995) was also a ski racer. In the mid-1930s, Pfeifer was one of the best young Austrian runners. After the annexation of Austria it was subordinated to the Ordensburg Sonthofen and from now on it started for the Greater German Reich .
Pfeifer achieved his first major successes in 1939 at the winter sports week in Garmisch , where he took third place in downhill, slalom and combined. He was also third in the combination of Kitzbühel . The next winter in Garmisch he was second in slalom, third in combination and fourth in downhill. In St. Anton he finished sixth in the slalom and fourth in the downhill, third place in the combination.
Pfeifer celebrated his greatest success at the 1941 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo . He won the slalom together with the Italian Vittorio Chierroni . Pfeifer actually had a time six hundredths of a second better, but after an objection from the Italian team management, the competition management also put Chierroni in first place because he “had to drive on a worse slope”. In the downhill race, Pfeifer took eighth place and therefore sixth in the combination. However, this world championship was subsequently declared invalid by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in 1946 because only a few nations were able to take part. In Garmisch in 1941 he won the German downhill championships.
In 1941 Pfeifer was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He joined the Luftwaffe and was shot down in his plane over the Netherlands on August 11, 1943 .
Sporting successes
World championships
- unofficial: Cortina d'Ampezzo 1941 : 1st slalom, 6th combination, 8th descent
German championships
- German champion in downhill 1941
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 317f
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Polednik: Das Glück im Schnee - 100 years of skiing in Austria , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna-Munich 1991, ISBN 3-85002-303-6 , p. 85
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| SURNAME | Pfeifer, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian and German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Anton am Arlberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1943 |
| Place of death | Netherlands |