US EditionErich Sailer Passes Away, Just Shy of 100
Erich Sailer coached over 25,000 skiers, pioneering U.S. ski racing camps and elevating Buck Hill into a hub for Olympic-level alpine racers.
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Erich Sailer passes away, just shy of 100
Erich Sailer, a Class of 2005 Honored Member of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, passed away on Wednesday, just shy of his 100th birthday. U.S. Ski & Snowboard in an email Thursday eulogized Sailer: “Successful athletes require successful coaches and when it comes to ski racing, no coach can claim a record like Erich Sailer’s. For 50 years the feisty Austrian has stood next to slalom courses, tirelessly drilling alpine racers into world cl…
Erich Sailer emigrated to the USA and trained numerous world stars. Now he died at the age of 99.
On August 19, Erich Sailer, probably the most famous foreign telephone, died in the USA at the age of 99. The ski pioneer, who trained many successful racers, was the holder of the honorary sign of the market community Telfs. TELFS. Erich Sailer was born in Telfs in 1925. In 1954 he emigrated to Canada, a little later he moved to the USA. Together with his compatriots Pepi Gramshammer and Anderl Molterer he founded race camps for young riders in…
Lindsey Vonn (40), the former Olympic champion in skiing, mourns for her first coach Erich Sailer. Lindsey's Tyrolean icon of skiing taught skiing in Minnesota and laid the foundation for her later career. The most famous of his projects was the Buck Hill Camp in Minnesota – the place where the later professional athlete learned her first turns. Only recently, Erich's daughter Martina announced on Facebook the sad news of his death at the age of…
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