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Fritz Dopfer (; born 24 August 1987) is a German former

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alpine ski racer, specializing in the technical events of

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

and

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. Born in

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, Austria, to a German father and an Austrian mother, the family lived in both countries during his youth. They lived in

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, in Germany until Dopfer was age 10, when the family moved to

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in Austria. Dopfer raced for Austria through April 2007, then joined the German team that summer and made his World Cup debut in October

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. During his first three seasons on the German team, he raced primarily on the European Cup circuit, with several World Cup starts per season, but no results. He moved up to the World Cup team for the

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season, and attained his first World Cup podium (and first top ten) in December

in a giant slalom at Beaver Creek, Colorado. It was the first World Cup GS podium for a German male in nearly 18 years, since January

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World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

*9 podiums – (5 SL, 4 GS)

World Championship results

Olympic results

Video

You Tube.com
– Dopfer takes 2nd in GS at Adelboden – 12 January 2013

References

External links

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World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation *

at DSV
Fritz Dopfer
at Nordica Skis * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dopfer, Fritz 1987 births German male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Germany German people of Austrian descent Sportspeople from Innsbruck Living people