Max Rieger (ski racer)

Max Rieger

nation

Germany

birthday

10th July 1946 (age 74)

place of birth

Mittenwald , Germany

Career

discipline

Giant slalom , slalom

status

resigned

End of career

1976

Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Individual World Cup debut	1970
Individual world cup victories	1
Overall World Cup	15th ( 1969/70 )
Giant Slalom World Cup	10. ( 1972/73 )
Slalom World Cup	10. (1972/73)

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Giant slalom	1	0	0
slalom	0	1	1

Max Rieger (born July 10, 1946 in Mittenwald ) is a former German ski racer .

biography

Rieger was German slalom champion in 1969 and giant slalom and combination champion in 1971. At the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble 1968 he was twentieth in slalom and sixth in giant slalom at the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo.

Max Rieger achieved his greatest successes at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena (South Tyrol) when he finished fourth in the giant slalom and in the combined. In 1974 at the World Championships in St. Moritz, he finished eighth in the giant slalom.

In his special discipline, giant slalom, Max Rieger won on 2/3. March 1973 the two-day World Cup race in Mont Sainte-Anne (Canada). The next German to succeed in this was Felix Neureuther in 2014 . Max Rieger was also able to climb the other two steps of the winners' podium once (each in slalom and also in Berchtesgaden with rank 2 on January 9, 1972 and previously rank 3 on January 6, 1971). Rieger took third place on December 14, 1970 at the slalom in Sestriere ; this race was not part of the World Cup.

He later ran a ski school in Mittenwald and Ellmau .

World cup

Rieger achieved 3 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
2nd / 3rd March 1973	Mont Sainte-Anne	Canada	Giant slalom

Web links

Max Rieger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
Max Rieger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Column 5, middle: "Ernst Hinterseer leaves the DSV" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
↑ bottom right: «The last World Cup phase begins» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
↑ «France's slalom king has struck» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1970, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

personal data
SURNAME	Rieger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mittenwald

[1] Column 5, middle: "Ernst Hinterseer leaves the DSV" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1976, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[2] ttom right: «The last World Cup phase begins» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 2, 1973, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[3] «France's slalom king has struck» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1970, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).