Hubert Strolz

Hubert Strolz (born 26 June 1962), nickname "Hubsi", is a former alpine skier from Austria.

At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the combined and silver in the Giant Slalom.

He was on the way to win another gold medal in the combined at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville but he fell down in the second leg of the slalom just a short distance before the finish line.

Like in that case (he saw it as compensation for having luck by winning the gold medal in Calgary, when the great favourite Pirmin Zurbriggen did nlt finish the slalom in this way too), he always did not interpret losses as an unluck though it seemed so for the public.

He did hold the view that his opponents did it better than he (quite often he was - unexpected - intercepted as a race-leader, and in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1989, he was third in the Super-G but at last Tomaž Čižman (22nd starter) could obtain the bronze medal.