Ludwig Leitner
Ludwig Leitner 
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| birthday | February 24, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Mittelberg, Austria | ||||||||||||
| date of death | 21st March 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Mittelberg, Austria | ||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| End of career | 1968 | ||||||||||||
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Ludwig "Luggi" Leitner (born February 24, 1940 in Mittelberg , Kleinwalsertal ; † March 21, 2013 there ) was an Austrian-German ski racer .
Life
Ludwig Leitner, born as the second son of a family of mountain farmers , started skiing at the age of two. In addition to the regional school ski races, he also took part in the German Youth Championships. In 1958 he was a participant in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Bad Gastein , at that time still for the Austrian team. For the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he took German citizenship in 1959 .
In 1964 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by the German President . As a double for James Bond actor George Lazenby, he worked in the film James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
Luggi Leitner from Mittelberg ran a hotel in his home town with his wife Renate. His brother Adalbert Leitner , who was also a ski racer, drove for Austria and from 1965/66 for the German Ski Association (A report according to the footnote shows: As it became known on the evening of September 1, 1965 in Munich, from the coming season for the German Ski Association start. )
Adalbert Leitner now lives in Canada .
successes
1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley
- 4th place in slalom and 5th place in alpine combination
World Championship 1962 in Chamonix
- Bronze in the Alpine Combination
Olympic Winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck
- Gold in the combination of three - not an Olympic gold at that time, only counted as a world championship title
World Championship 1966 in Portillo
- Bronze in combination
1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble
- 5th place in the combination
More Achievements
- 15 times German champion
- Twice the winner of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel : Slalom 1963, downhill 1965
- Twice the winner of the Kandahar run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Winner of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen : Slalom 1964
- Winner of the 3-Tre race in Madonna di Campiglio : Slalom 1966
- 3 times world record in speed races
Records
1965: World record with 172.744 km / h (material: 2.40 m long metal ski, Sohler "Bluebird")
Web links
- Ludwig Leitner in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Ludwig Leitner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Ludwig Leitner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Obituary of the DSV
Individual evidence
- ^ "Austrians go foreign" in: Der Standard from February 8, 2003, accessed on October 3, 2011
- ↑ "Adalbert Leitner starts for the Federal Republic" in "Neue Zeit Kärnten" No. 202 of September 3, 1965, page 7, column 2, middle
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| SURNAME | Leitner, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leitner, Luggi (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mittelberg , Kleinwalsertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 21st March 2013 |
| Place of death | Mittelberg , Kleinwalsertal |