Gertrud Gabl
Gertrud Gabl was an alpine skier from Austria. She competed in several events at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics with the best result of 9th place in the giant slalom in 1968.
Her best season was 1968/69, when she won the Alpine skiing World Cup. Her uncle Franz Gabl was also an Olympic alpine skier.
In the 1968 Winter Olympics she was 9th in the giant slalom and 12th in the downhill; she didn't finish the slalom.
In the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1970 she was 4th in the slalom and 5th in the giant slalom.
In the World Cup she scored her first world cup points on 19 January 1967, when she finished fifth in the slalom at Schruns. Later she went on to win five slaloms and two giant slaloms.
Her father Josef was also an excellent ski racer.
She won the Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1969, the same year as Karl Schranz did it for the men. Both of them came from the same village, St. Anton am Arlberg, ant that is the only time that the women's and men's overall champions hailed from the same village.
Death
Gabl was killed in an avalanche on 18 January 1976. She was 27.World Cup results
Season titles
- 2 titles –
Season standings
Race victories
- 7 wins –
- 17 podiums –
| Season | - | - | - |
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline |
| 1968 3 victories | 11 January 1968 |  Grindelwald, Switzerland | Slalom |
| 1968 3 victories | 5 April 1968 |  Heavenly Valley, USA | Giant slalom |
| 1968 3 victories | 6 April 1968 | Heavenly Valley, USA | Slalom |
| 1969 4 victories | 4 January 1969 |  Oberstaufen, West Germany | Slalom |
| 1969 4 victories | 7 January 1969 | Grindelwald, Switzerland | Slalom |
| 1969 4 victories | 16 February 1969 |  Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia | Slalom |
| 1969 4 victories | 17 February 1969 | Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia | Giant slalom |