Herbert Huber ( German: Herbert Huber ; December 4, 1944 , Kitzbuhel - July 15, 1970 , ibid.) - Austrian skier , specialist in slalom and giant slalom . He played for the Austrian alpine skiing team in the second half of the 1960s, the silver medalist of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble , the winner of the silver medal of the world championship, the winner of three stages of the World Cup, two-time champion of the Austrian national championship.
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| Citizenship |  Austria | ||||||||
| Date of Birth | December 4, 1944 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Kitzbuhel , Austria | ||||||||
| Growth | 174 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg | ||||||||
| Date of death | July 15, 1970 (25 years old) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Kitzbuhel , Austria | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Giant slalom | ||||||||
| In the national team | 1965-1970 | ||||||||
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| Last updated: February 27, 2018 | |||||||||
Biography
Herbert Huber was born on December 4, 1944 in the ski town of Kitzbuehel in the state of Tirol , Austria . He was trained at the local Kitzbuhel ski club of the same name.
He achieved his first serious success at the international level in 1965, when he joined the main squad of the Austrian national team and won the competitions in Lebanon. A year later, at the Austrian championship, he won first place in slalom and became second in combination. I visited the World Championships in Portillo , but failed the first attempt in the slalom program, failing to finish.
With the advent of the Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1967, Huber immediately began to take an active part in it, in particular, he played at the very first stage in the German Berchtesgaden, where he was the eighth in slalom and closed the ten strongest giant slalom. After some time, he first climbed the podium of the World Cup, winning a bronze medal in non-stage slalom in American Franconia. A little later, at a different American stage, he won.
In 1968, he again became the champion of Austria and, thanks to a series of successful appearances, was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble - he showed a third time in the slalom after two attempts, but due to the disqualification of his compatriot Karl Schranz, he moved to the second line of the final protocol and thereby won a silver Olympic medal, letting forward only the titled Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy , who won all three ski disciplines here [1] .
After the Grenoble Olympics, Herbert Huber remained in the Austrian main ski team and continued to take part in major international competitions. So, over the next two years, he several times appeared on the podium of the World Cup, including winning two stages in the giant slalom. Nevertheless, in February 1970, he with great difficulty overcame his qualifications before the World Cup stage in the Italian Val Gardena, qualifying for the competition only at the expense of the retired representative of the “exotic” in the skiing country of Romania. This unsuccessful performance seriously affected him, he was confused, ashamed and against this background decided to end his sports career by refusing to participate in the upcoming stage (as a result, only three Austrian skiers went to the start instead of four).
Leaving the national team, Huber worked as a bathhouse attendant in Kitzbühel and, as it later turned out, suffered from severe depression. In the summer of the same 1970, he had an accident at work - one of the tourists who came here drowned and died. And although Huber was not related to this incident and was not guilty of what happened, he took it to heart and was very worried, and on July 15 he committed suicide at home [2] .
Notes
- ↑ "1968 Winter Olympics - Grenoble, France - Alpine Skiing" Archived on August 19, 2007. (Retrieved on March 1, 2008)
- ↑ knerger.de: Das Grab von Herbert Huber
Links
- Herbert Huber - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Herbert Huber - statistics on the FIS website