Josef "Pepi" Stiegler (born 20 April 1937 in Lienz, Austria) is a former alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.

He was a member of the Austrian national ski team during the late 1950s and early 1960s and was one of the world's premier racers.

At the 1964 Winter Olympics of Innsbruck, he took the bronze medal in giant slalom at Axamer Lizum and then won the gold in slalom, edging out American medalists Billy Kidd and Jimmie Heuga.

Similar to Heuga, Stiegler was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993.

[1][2][3] Austrian teammate Egon Zimmermann, gold medalist in the 1964 Olympic downhill, also has MS. At age 66, Stiegler earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Montana State University in Bozeman in May 2003.