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Toni Sailer

Anton "Toni" Sailer (born November 17, 1935 in Kitzbühel[?]), Austrian skiing legend.

The "blitz from Kitz" was the first skier at olympic games to win all three Alpine skiing events (downhill, slalom and giant slalom), at the 1956 Winter Olympic Games[?] in Cortina d'Ampezzo[?]. He was the fifth athlete to win three gold medals in the same Winter Olympic Games.

He won four more gold medals in world championships before he retired in 1959.

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