Franz Keller (skier)

Franz Keller
nation	BR Germany
birthday	January 19, 1945
place of birth	Nesselwang ,  German Empire
size	169 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	SC Nesselwang
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 5 × 0 × 0 ×
Participant in the Nordic Combined  winter Olympics gold 1968 Grenoble singles  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1966 Oslo singles  German championships gold 1970 singles gold 1971 singles gold 1972 singles gold 1973 singles Participants in ski jumping  German championships gold 1966 Reit im Winkl singles

Franz Keller (born January 19, 1945 in Nesselwang ) is a former German Nordic combined skier and ski jumper .

Keller began his career as a special jumper and won the gold medal at the German championships in 1966. In 1967 he took second place in jumping in Innsbruck as part of the Four Hills Tournament . A short time later he switched to the combiners.

In 1968 he won the gold medal in Nordic combined at the Olympic Games in Grenoble . In the same year he was voted Germany's Sportsman of the Year . He won the combination on February 10, 1971 as part of the pre-Olympic competitions in Sapporo (in 1972 at the Olympic Games, he finished 33rd).

In 1965, Keller won the German Junior Championships in Meßstetten ahead of Klaus Ganter. The next year he achieved his first major international success, finishing second behind Georg Thoma at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1966 . In 1973 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal .

Web links

• Franz Keller in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Franz Keller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Christoph Gunkel: Olympia 1968, GDR versus FRG: “He mustn't catch up with me!” One day on Spiegel Online , February 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janc didn't like the trail . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 11, 1971, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).