Paul Frommelt

Paul Frommelt
nation	Liechtenstein
birthday	9th August 1957 (age 63)
place of birth	Schaan , Liechtenstein
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
status	resigned
End of career	1990
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior European Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Calgary 1988 slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Garmisch-Part. 1978 slalom  Alpine Junior European Ski Championships bronze Mayrhofen 1975 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 10. ( 1976/77 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 20th (1976/77)  Slalom World Cup 3. (1976/77)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 4th 8th 13

Paul Frommelt (born August 9, 1957 in Schaan ) is a former ski racer from Liechtenstein .

biography

In the 1970s and 1980s he was part of the successful Liechtenstein ski team led by siblings Andreas and Hanni Wenzel. The slalom specialist won four World Cup slaloms and the bronze medal in slalom at the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary . He also won the final parallel slalom on March 23, 1986 in Bromont (CAN), which was only part of the Nations Cup. At the beginning of his career he had already won the bronze medal in slalom at the European Junior Championships in 1975 . In 2008 he was awarded the Golden Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements . Frommelt was voted Sportsman of the Year seven times in Liechtenstein .

His older brother Willi Frommelt was also active as a ski racer. His older brother Peter Frommelt took on for Liechtenstein a. a. participated in the table tennis world championship 1989 in Dortmund and the table tennis world championship 2006 in Bremen. His father was the cross-country skier Christof Frommelt .

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
15th January 1979	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	slalom
January 13, 1981	Oberstaufen	Germany	slalom
January 19, 1986	Kitzbühel	Austria	slalom
March 26, 1988	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	Austria	slalom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung, March 25, 1986, page 24, box "Tonazzi took revenge on Steiner in Canada"

Web links

• Paul Frommelt in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Paul Frommelt in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Paul Frommelt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• HLFL editor: Frommelt, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .