Ivo Mahlknecht

Ivo Mahlknecht
nation	Italy
birthday	21st May 1939 (age 81)
place of birth	Ortisei in Val Gardena , Italy
date of death	March 30, 2020
Place of death	Brixen
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
End of career	1968
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Overall World Cup 40. ( 1968 )  Downhill World Cup 16. (1968)

Ivo Mahlknecht (born May 21, 1939 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; † March 30, 2020 in Brixen ) was an Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean was a nine-time Italian champion and was a member of the Italian national ski team in the 1960s.

In 1966 Mahlknecht finished sixth in the combined ranking at the World Ski Championships in Portillo . Two years later he went to the Olympic downhill from Grenoble also to sixth place.

In the Ski World Cup , which was introduced at the end of his career , Mahlknecht was able to place five times in the top ten. He achieved his best results, two fifth places, on the downhill runs from Wengen and Megève in January 1967. Before the introduction of the World Cup, he had, among other things, achieved three podiums at the 3-tre races in Madonna di Campiglio in 1966 .

Mahlknecht was able to win a total of nine Italian championship titles in his career :

• Slalom (3): 1963, 1964, 1968
• Giant Slalom (2): 1964, 1968
• Departure (3): 1965, 1966, 1968
• Combination (1): 1968

Web links

• Ivo Mahlknecht in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Ivo Mahlknecht in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Ivo Mahlknecht in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In memory of: Ivo Mahlknecht da Palmer , obituary on trauerhilfe.it, accessed on March 31, 2020