Fabian Gratz
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 July 1997 Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Occupation | Alpine skier |
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Germany |
| Skiing career | |
| Disciplines | Giant slalom |
| Club | TSV Altenau |
| World Cup debut | 2 February 2020 (age 22) |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 1 – (2026) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 2 – (2023, 2025) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 7 – (2020–2026) |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Overall titles | 0 – (100th in 2025) |
| Discipline titles | 0 – (30th in GS, 2025) |
Fabian Gratz (born 22 July 1997) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in giant slalom. He represented Germany at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Early life
Born in Starnberg, Bavaria, Gratz played several sports as a child, including football and athletics, but found skiing to be his greatest passion.[1][2]
Career
Gratz began competing in international races in 2013 at the age of sixteen and debuted on the Europa Cup in 2017. His first major international competition was the 2018 Junior World Championships in Davos, Switzerland.[3]
He earned his first points on the Europa Cup in January 2020 and made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 2 February 2020.[3]
He continued to ski primarily on the Europa Cup tour the next few seasons with occasional starts on the World Cup, participating in the 2023 World Championships and earning a Europa Cup victory in January 2024.[3]
The 2024–25 season was his first primarily racing in World Cup events. He also made his second World Championships appearance in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.[3]
The next season, Gratz achieved his first World Cup top five in Alta Badia, Italy, in December.[4] He had the best time for the second run, and that result plus two top-fifteen finishes earlier that season (at Copper Mountain and Val d'Isère) qualified him for the upcoming Winter Olympics.[5] He posted his second top ten the next month in Adelboden, Switzerland,[3] then posted the third-fastest first run in the final pre-Olympic giant slalom in Schladming, before dropping to eleventh after the second run.[6][7]
At the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, Gratz competed in the giant slalom and slalom, but was unable to complete both runs in either event, despite having the tenth-best first run in the giant slalom.[8][1]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | ||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | |
| 2022 | 24 | 145 | — | 53 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | 145 | — | 51 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | 123 | — | 46 | — | — |
| 2025 | 27 | 100 | — | 30 | — | — |
| 2026 | 28 | 42 | — | 14 | — | — |
- Standings through 13 March 2026
Top-ten results
- 0 podiums, 2 top tens
| Season | ||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2026 | 21 December 2025 | Alta Badia, Italy | Giant slalom | 5th |
| 10 January 2026 | Adelboden, Switzerland | Giant slalom | 9th |
World Championship results
| Year | ||||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team combined |
Team event | |
| 2023 | 25 | — | DNF2 | — | — | — | N/a | — |
| 2025 | 27 | — | 18 | — | — | N/a | — | 5 |
Olympic results
| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Team combined | |
| 2026 | 28 | DNF1 | DNF2 | — | — | — |
References
- ^ a b "Fabian Gratz". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ^ "Fabian Gratz". dsv-jahrbuch.de (in German). German Ski Association. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "Fabian Gratz - Athlete Biography". FIS-ski.com. International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ^ Lamparter, Margot (21 December 2025). "Gratz erwischt Sahnetag und wird sensationeller Fünfter" [Gratz has a fantastic day and finishes a sensational fifth]. Sportschau (in German). Cologne: Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ^ "Fabian Gratz macht mit Sensationslauf 24 Plätze gut" [Fabian Gratz improves his position by 24 places with a sensational run]. n-tv (in German). Cologne: RTL Deutschland. 21 December 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ^ "Deutsches Riesenslalom-Duo verpasst Coup in Schladming" [German giant slalom duo misses out on coup in Schladming]. Lippische Landes-Zeitung (in German). Lippischer Zeitungsverlag. 27 January 2026. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ Eisenberger, Korbinian (28 January 2026). "Gratz, Grammel und das Glatteis" [Gratz, Grammel and the black ice]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich: Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ^ "Results and analysis - Men's Giant Slalom - Milano Cortina 2026" (PDF). FIS-ski.com. International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
External links
- Fabian Gratz at FIS (alpine)
- Fabian Gratz at Olympedia
- Fabian Gratz at InterSportStats