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Toni Sailer

1935 - 2009

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Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer (17 November 1935 – 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport. At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He nearly duplicated the feat at the 1958 World Championships with two golds and a silver. He also won world titles both years in the combined, then a "paper" race, but awarded with medals by the International Ski Federation (FIS). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toni Sailer is the 5th most popular skier (down from 4th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Austria (down from 345th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Toni Sailer ranks 5 out of 817Before him are Ingemar Stenmark, Jean-Claude Killy, Heikki Hasu, and Matti Nykänen. After him are Eddie the Eagle, Alberto Tomba, Bjørn Dæhlie, Franz Klammer, Sixten Jernberg, Birger Ruud, and Annemarie Moser-Pröll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Toni Sailer ranks 80Before him are Pepe, Lajos Tichy, Bent Larsen, Lee Remick, Giovanni Lajolo, and António Ramalho Eanes. After him are Sonny Bono, Roger B. Chaffee, Maj Sjöwall, Ken Kesey, Jack Kemp, and Floyd Patterson. Among people deceased in 2009, Toni Sailer ranks 57Before him are Pavel Popovich, Clive Granger, Albert Barillé, Sverre Fehn, Sergey Mikhalkov, and Kazumi Takada. After him are Eleanor F. Helin, J. G. Ballard, Ertuğrul Osman, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Susan Atkins, and Israel Gelfand.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Toni Sailer ranks 347 out of 1,424Before him are Brigitte Bierlein (1949), Archduchess Barbara of Austria (1539), Hermann Buhl (1924), Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (1915), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), and Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632). After him are Ernst Krenek (1900), Paul Wittgenstein (1887), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), Frederick III, Duke of Austria (1347), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), and Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (1249).

Among SKIERS In Austria

Among skiers born in Austria, Toni Sailer ranks 1After him are Franz Klammer (1953), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), Marc Girardelli (1963), Hermann Maier (1972), Karl Schranz (1938), Baldur Preiml (1939), Egon Zimmermann (1939), Christl Haas (1943), Erika Mahringer (1924), Othmar Schneider (1928), and Trude Beiser (1927).