Siegfried Grabner

Siegfried "Sigi" Grabner (born 4 February 1975, in Waiern, Carinthia) is an Austrian professional snowboarder. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy he won bronze in the Parallel Giant Slalom competition.

Siegfried Grabner
Medal record
Men's snowboarding
Representing  Austria
Olympic Games
2006 Turin Parallel Giant Slalom
FIS Snowboarding World Championships
2003 Kreischberg Parallel Slalom
2005 Whistler Parallel Slalom

Having won the Junior World Championship 1994 in Slovenia, he decided to go professional. He won the European Championship 1995 in Finland, and became part of the Burton Alpine Team. In 2003 he won the Parallel Giant Slalom World Championship in Kreischberg, Austria. In 2005 he ranked third in Whistler, British Columbia.

In the summer of 2003 Siegfried Grabner wrote a book, "Boarder zwischen den Welten" (literally "Boarder between the worlds"). He also develops snowboards, his "SG Snowboards" became available in autumn 2005 in three variants. He won the medal at the Turin Olympics on one of his Torino raceboards.

Grabner resides in La Massana, Andorra.

World Cup victories
Date Place Country Discipline
20 January 2002BardonecchiaItalyParallel Giant Slalom
24 January 2002KreischbergAustriaParallel Giant Slalom
19 October 2003SöldenAustriaParallel Slalom
12 December 2003Whistler MountainCanadaParallel Giant Slalom
3 February 2004MariborSloveniaParallel Giant Slalom
14 March 2004BardonecchiaItalyParallel Giant Slalom
7 January 2005Saint PetersburgRussiaParallel Slalom
18 February 2005SapporoJapanParallel Giant Slalom
7 October 2005LandgraafNetherlandsParallel Slalom
13 October 2006LandgraafNetherlandsParallel Slalom
20 December 2006Bad GasteinAustriaParallel Slalom
21 December 2008ArosaSwitzerlandParallel Slalom
6 January 2009KreischbergAustriaParallel Giant Slalom


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