Harald Paumgarten

nation

Austria

birthday

April 4, 1904

place of birth

Graz , Austria

size

184 cm

date of death

February 6, 1952

Place of death

St. Anton am Arlberg , Austria

Career

discipline

Alpine skiing
Nordic combined
cross-country skiing
ski jumping

Medal table

World Cup medals

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1 ×

Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze	1933 Innsbruck	Season

Harald Paumgarten (born April 4, 1904 in Graz , † February 6, 1952 in St. Anton am Arlberg ) was an Austrian skier who competed in cross-country skiing , ski jumping , Nordic combined and alpine ski races .

Career

In international competitions, Paumgarten was able to celebrate numerous victories in the second half of the 1920s, mainly in the Nordic disciplines. His first major event was the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . He competed in cross-country skiing over 18 km and in individual Nordic combined. In both competitions he reached 17th place. At the first Alpine World Ski Championships in 1931 in Mürren , Switzerland , Paumgarten started the “long descent”, in which no World Championship medals were awarded, and finished third behind his teammate Gustav Lantschner and the British Chris Mackintosh .

As early as 1930, Paumgarten had founded a ski school in Sugar Hill , New Hampshire , and therefore did not take part in competitions as often. At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Paumgarten , who was already living in the USA, was the standard bearer of the Austrian delegation. In the competitions he reached 18th place in the individual combination, came 25th in ski jumping and 29th in cross-country skiing. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Innsbruck in 1933 , he won the bronze medal in the relay competition of cross-country skiing over 4 × 10 km together with Toni Gstrein , Hermann Gadner and Balthasar Niederkofler .

On February 6, 1952, Paumgarten was buried by an avalanche during one of his many home visits on the Galzig- Osthang and could only be recovered dead.

Harald Paumgarten was the brother of the Nordic combined skier Fridtjof Paumgarten and the ski racer Gerda Paumgarten and the grandfather of the American rower Doug Burden .

Web links

Harald Paumgarten in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 311f
↑ The avalanche death in the Alps . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 8, 1952, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

personal data
SURNAME	Paumgarten, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian skier
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1952
Place of death	St. Anton am Arlberg , Austria

[OESV-1] Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 311f

[2] The avalanche death in the Alps . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 8, 1952, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).