Fritz Huber (ski racer)

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Fritz Huber Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday January 21, 1931
place of birth Kitzbühel
date of death August 9, 2017
Place of death Kitzbühel
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Kitzbühel Ski Club
End of career 1955
 

Fritz Huber (born January 21, 1931 in Kitzbühel ; † August 9, 2017 there ) was an Austrian ski racer and ski trainer. He won several important international races in the first half of the 1950s and was Austrian slalom champion in 1953. According to his own statements, he grew up in St. Johann , a neighboring town of Kitzbühel.

Career

Fritz Huber, like his younger brother Herbert , came to skiing through his father Fritz Sr., who was himself a ski racer and had set a new world speed record on skis at the Kilometer Lancé in St. Moritz in 1934 . After successes in the youth field and his first starts in international races, he celebrated his first major successes in 1950 at the Hahnenkamm races in his hometown of Kitzbühel. He won both the actual Hahnenkamm descent and the additional descent, achieved second place in the slalom behind the German Sepp Folger and was Hahnenkamm winner in the combination. He was also victorious in downhill skiing and in the combination of Gossensaß . In the winter of 1951 he celebrated his only victory in the Bad Wiessee slalom . He achieved podium places in the slaloms from Kitzbühel and Chamonix as well as in the descent from Rottach-Egern .

In January 1952 Huber won the slalom and the descent of the two-piste races in Schruns , but was unable to take part in the Winter Olympics in Oslo in February due to injury . One month after the games, he won the downhill and the combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Chamonix and came third in the slalom. In 1953 he reached second place in the combined and third place in the slalom at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton . That winter he only won the less important giant slalom on Wendelstein . After he had already achieved two podium places at the Austrian championships in the previous year, he became Austrian slalom champion in 1953 . In January 1954 Huber had a bad crash in the Lauberhorn race in Wengen and therefore had to end the season, which is why he also missed the world championship in Åre . In the winter of 1954/55 he made a comeback and celebrated his last significant victory in the slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in Mürren . After that winter he ended his career.

The trained car mechanic had already been working as a taxi driver from 1950 and founded a taxi company in Kitzbühel. Following his active career, he switched to coaching and from 1955 initially worked for the Swedish national team and later for the women's team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). From the 1958/59 season onwards, Huber was the head coach of the German ski women who made Heidi Biebl an Olympic champion in 1960 , and from the mid-1960s to 1972 he was first as a junior coach and then as head coach of the men again for the ÖSV. Huber was married and the father of two children. His son Michael Huber, born in 1965, has been President of the Kitzbühel Ski Club since 2009. Fritz Huber died on August 9, 2017 at the age of 86. He was buried in Kitzbühel .

Sporting successes

Victories in FIS races

Austrian championships

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ New President for the KSC ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Kitzbüheler Ski Club, June 27, 2009, accessed on May 14, 2010
  3. ↑ Mr. Huber Fritz jun. In: trauerhilfe.at. October 28, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzbuhel , Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2017
Place of death Kitzbuhel , Austria