Rudolf Cranz
Heinz-Rudolf "Rudi" Cranz (born September 2, 1918 in Uccle , Belgium , † June 22, 1941 in Różaniec near Przemyśl , Poland ) was a German ski racer . He was one of the best drivers in Germany in the 1930s. Between 1937 and 1941 he won four German championship titles and one Austrian championship title in slalom and in combination .
Cranz was the younger brother of the Olympic ski champion Christl Cranz . At their side, he advanced to the national top in skiing in the mid-1930s. He achieved his first successes in 1936 when he became German champion for the first time in slalom, and at the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where alpine competitions were on the program for the first time, where he was sixth in the combination.
At the following World Ski Championships, Cranz was able to assert himself among the world's best. In 1937 in Chamonix he was fourth in slalom and fifth in combination. Two years later at the World Championships in Zakopane he finished fourth in both slalom and combined.
Cranz served as a mountain fighter in the Wehrmacht during World War II and was killed in Poland at the age of 22 on the first day of the attack on the Soviet Union . The news of his death prompted his sister to end her own athletic career.
statistics
winter Olympics
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 6th combination
German championships
- Alpine combination: 1937 and 1941
- Slalom: 1939 and 1941
Arlberg-Kandahar
- Slalom 1937 ( Murren )
Austrian championships
- Combination 1937
Web links
- Rudolf Cranz in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Rudolf Cranz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cranz, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cranz, Rudi; Cranz, Heinz-Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uccle , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1941 |
| Place of death | Różaniec near Przemyśl , Poland |