Patrick Ortlieb

Patrick Ortlieb is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill|Olympic] gold medalist from Austria. A specialist in the speed events, he was also a FIS [Alpine World Ski Championships 1996|world champion] in the downhill event.
Born in Bregenz in Vorarlberg, Ortlieb started skiing early at the age of three. He won the 1992 [Winter Olympics">1992 Alpine Skiing World Cup">1992 [Winter Olympics – Men's downhill|downhill event] at the 1992 Winter Olympics in France, gathered twenty World Cup podiums, and was World Champion in FIS Alpine [World Ski Championships 1996|1996] in downhill. At the 1994 Winter Olympics|1994 Winter Olympics] in Lillehammer, he finished fourth in the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill|downhill] at Kvitfjell. A month earlier, he won the famed downhill on the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, Austria.
Five years later in January 1999, Ortlieb's racing career ended at age 31 after a serious crash during a practice run on the same slope at Kitzbühel. He suffered a compound fracture of the right femur and a badly dislocated and slightly fractured right hip after losing control and crashing into the safety nets at the Hausbergkante. Later in the year, he was elected to the National Council of Austria for the Freedom Party of Austria, where he stayed for three years.
He currently runs a four-star hotel, named Hotel Montana, in Lech am Arlberg in Vorarlberg.
He is the father of fellow alpine skier Nina Ortlieb.

World Cup results

The Super-G in 1993 was cancelled after multiple weather delays.
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