Awards and achievements
Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley 1960
- 4rd rank in slalom und 5th rank in the alpine kombination
World Championship in Chamonix 1962
- Bronze medal in the alpinen kombination
Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck 1964
- Gold medal in the alpine kombination (it was then not a olympic gold, only the title of a world champion)
Wolrd Championship in Portillo 1966
- Bronze medal in the alpinen kombination
Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble 1968
- 5. rank in the alpine kombination
Further achievements
- 16 times German Champion
- double winner of the famous "Hahnenkammrennen" in Kitzbühel: Slalom 1963, Downhill 1965
- double winner on the "Kandahar-downhill" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Winner of the Lauberhornrennen in Wengen: Slalom 1964
- Winner of the 3-Tre-Race in Madonna di Campiglio: Slalom 1966
- triple world-record at speed races
In 1964 he was awarded by the German Federal President with the silver bay leaf.
He assisted as a double for the James-Bond-Actor George Lazenby in the movie James Bond 007 - Her Majesty's Secret Service