Franz Digruber

Franz Digruber
nation	Austria
birthday	13th November 1940 (age 79)
place of birth	Saint Sebastian
job	Car mechanic
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SC Mariazell
status	resigned
End of career	1970
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Overall World Cup 24th ( 1968 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 12. ( 1968/69 )  Slalom World Cup 12. (1968)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 0 1  slalom 0 1 0

Franz Digruber (born November 13, 1940 in St. Sebastian , Styria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He was two-time Austrian champion and took two podium places in the Ski World Cup . His sister Grete Digruber was also a ski racer.

biography

Digruber achieved the first podium places in FIS races in the winter of 1962/63. The next year he was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association and he celebrated his first victory in the slalom of Morzine . At the Austrian Championships in 1964 , he won the giant slalom and the combined. In the winter of 1965, two more victories in the giant slalom from Lienz and the downhill from Haus followed .

In the 1965/66 season the Styrian won in all disciplines. He won the slalom in Zell am See , the giant slalom in Mont Sainte-Anne and the downhill in Hemsedal . At the Lauberhorn slalom in Wengen , he took third place. In July 1966 Digruber however, came in the giant slalom training in Chile Farellones two weeks before the start of the World Cup hard to fall and suffered a double leg fracture while. It was not until March 1967 that he was able to participate in races again.

In the absence of good results in the winter of 1967/68 Digruber did not qualify for the Winter Olympics in Grenoble . At the beginning of March he achieved his first top result in the World Cup : behind French Patrick Russel , he finished second in the slalom of Kranjska Gora . In the 1968/69 World Cup season, the Styrian was twice in the top ten. He finished seventh in the Megève slalom and third in the Kranjska Gora giant slalom. But the next winter there were no top results, which is why it was not used at the World Championships in Val Gardena . At the end of the 1969/70 season, Digruber ended his career.

successes

World cup

• Two podium places, one more time in the top ten

Austrian championships

• Austrian champion in giant slalom and combined in 1964

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 47

Web links

• Franz Digruber in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Franz Digruber in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Farellones: Franz Digruber suffered a broken leg . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 23, 1966, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Digruber: "Why only, why only ...!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 24, 1966, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).