Ender grew up in Triesen and started skiing at the Triesen Ski Club . When he attended high school, he switched to the Vaduz ski club . Ender was able to successfully qualify for the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , but he could not compete because he fell in downhill training on the Patscherkofel and broke both fibulae. His teammate Josef Gassner had a similar experience, he too was seriously injured. In 1967 he made his debut together with Gassner as the first Liechtensteiner in the newly founded World Cup. A year later, Ender could again meet the Olympic qualification, so he joined the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in the downhill race (37th), in the Giant Slalom (32.) and slalom (retired) on. In 1969 an international training community was founded for the first time with the Austrian Ski Association , which Ender was also a member of. However, Ender was injured in December 1973, shortly before the 1974 World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, and was therefore unable to take part. Since his compatriot Willi Frommelt lost to his Austrian training partner Karl Cordin in the downhill battle for the bronze medal, the training community was dissolved again.
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Wolfgang Ender in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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