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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO 1956 Slalom Toni Sailer

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Toni Sailer of Austria was the first Alpine skier to win three gold medals. He began his record-setting performance in 1956 by winning the giant slalom by 6.2 seconds. This is still the largest margin of victory in the history of Olympic Alpine skiing. Two days later he won the slalom by 4 seconds, recording the fastest time in both runs. The last Alpine race was the downhill. Less than 15 minutes before it was his turn to head down the course, Sailer tightened the straps that tied his boots to his skis -and one of the straps broke. He did not have a spare strap. Fortunately, the trainer of the Italian team, Hansl Senger, removed his own strap and loaned it to the Austrians. Sailer survived one near spill and won the race by 3 ½ seconds. After the victory ceremony, he gave one gold medal to his father and one to his mother and saved the third one for himself.




1924 Chamonix
1928 St Moritz
1932 Lake Placid
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1948 St Moritz
1952 Oslo
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
1960 Squaw Valley
1964 Innsbruck
1968 Grenoble
1972 Sapporo
1976 Innsbruck
1980 Lake Placid
1984 Sarajevo
1988 Calgary
1992 Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City
2006 Torino
2010 Vancouver
2014 Sochi
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  • Good bye Toni

    du warst ein guter schifahrer aber jetzt bist du von und gegangen aber wir haben dich im herzen aufbewahrt jetzt bist du bei gott schlaf in frieden und wir denken immer an dich.

    RIP

  • R.I.P

    Toni Sailer, eine legende lebt.....

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  • Is Toni the father of Eric Sailer?

  • Immer noch dewr Beste fuer immer!

  • wow..fantastic..faboulous ..watched this in webmovietube

  • thanks andrea haha!! nice movie..just watched this in webmovietube

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