Christine Laprell

Christine Laprell
nation	BR Germany
birthday	6th May 1950 (age 70)
place of birth	Munich , Germany
size	171 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SC Rottach-Egern
status	resigned
End of career	1968
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 55th ( 1968 )  Slalom World Cup 42nd (1968)

Christine Laprell (also Christel , Christl and Christa ; born May 6, 1950 in Munich ) is a former German ski racer . She took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1968 and became German champion in downhill skiing that same year .

Career

After Laprell had shown good performances at the German youth championships as a 13-year-old, she was already part of the national team at the age of 14 and won her first FIS race in Mayrhofen at the age of 16 . From the 1966/67 season she was one of the strongest German ski racers. As a 15-year-old she was already fifth in the German slalom championship when Heidi Biebl won. She won her only championship in 1968 in the downhill .

The climax of her short career was the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , with the Alpine competitions, which also counted as World Championships, being held in Chamrousse . Laprell achieved tenth place in slalom and 15th place in giant slalom . In addition, she was 24th in the downhill and thus tenth in the combined classification , which was only rated as a world championship competition and not as an Olympic discipline. Because the Olympic Games were also part of the World Cup at that time , Laprell won World Cup points for the first and only time in her career with her tenth place in slalom. In the same year she became German downhill champion.

At the end of the 1968 season, Laprell announced her retirement from active ski racing at the age of only 17. At a time when there was still no money to be made in skiing, the Abitur - she attended grammar school with secondary school in Tegernsee - and medical studies were more important. Today Laprell runs a practice for general medicine in Tegernsee .

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Grenoble 1968 : 10th slalom, 15th giant slalom, 24th descent, 10th combination *

* counted only as a world championship competition

World cup

• A placement in the top ten

German championships

• German champion in downhill skiing in 1968

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} A television was the greatest prize www.merkur-online.de, February 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2010
2. ↑ Christl Laprell , Internationales Sportarchiv Edition 03/1968, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on March 31, 2010 ( beginning of the article freely available)
3. ↑ Now Heidi has also "caught" . www.abendblatt.de Hamburger Abendblatt. March 1, 1965. Retrieved on March 31, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.