Hubert Strolz

On 17 January 1988, Hubert Strolz won the combined world cup race at Bad Kleinekirchheim, Austria. It would remain his only world cup victory in a career that saw him on the podium 33 times (18 times in giant slalom). Despite only the one win, Strolz still won the combined world cup title in the 1987-88 season, also placing second that year in the giant slalom World Cup, and third in the overall.

Strolz competed at three Winter Olympics (1984-92), winning two medals at Calgary in 1988, with a silver in GS and a gold in the combined. He also appeared at five Alpine Skiing World Championships (1982, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993), but never had a podium finish. After failing to make the 1994 Austrian Olympic team, Strolz retired at the end of the 1993-94 season after 14 years on the World Cup circuit.

In retirement Strolz became director of the ski and snowboard school in his hometown of Warth am Arlberg. In 1996 Strolz was given a gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria.

His son Johannes Strolz, also became a ski racer and has been a member of the Austrian Ski Association squad since 2009. In 2022, like his father 34 years earlier, he also won Olympic gold in the combined in Beijing. This was the first case in alpine skiing that father and son became Olympic champions in the same discipline.