All of this after a rupture of the collateral ligament in the ankle with operation in September – and hardly with any training.“ Thereafter as 14th in Laax, Switzerland and third-best Austrian behind Phil Mahre and Christian Neureuther. On the 17th December 1976 I had my first World Cup appearance in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy and finished as 15th in the fourth starting group. In 1976 the call-up into the ÖSV C-Squad followed, in the same year the call-up into the ÖSV B-Squad. One year later I was the ‚World’s best Youth Group I Racer in Slalom’ and ranked in the FIS points list under 40 points. In 1974 I passed the admission exam at the skiing high school in Stams/ Tyrol. „With eleven years I was already faster than the 14-year olds on state level and with twelve I was double Austrian Schoolchildren’s Champion. Very soon the parallel slalom between school routine and sports career began: „With ten years I joined as the youngest the ÖSV-Schoolboys’ Squad (ÖSV = Austrian Skiing Association) because I had already won at the Schoolchildren’s Skiing Championships. One of the reasons for the „naturally unavoidable“ growing into the ski-racing sport. His father was a secondary school teacher in Radenthein working as a gym teacher and State Schoolchildren’s Attendant. Wolfram Ortner was born on the 10th March 1960 in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria.
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