Anton "Toni" Palzer (born 11 March 1993) is a German

ski mountaineer Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipment ...

and cyclist. He is a member of the DAV section

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and of the German national selection. Since April 2021, Palzer has joined in

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Career

Born in

Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden Ramsau is a German municipality in the Bavarian Alps with a population of around 1,800. It is a district located in the Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria, close to the border with Austria, 35 km south of Salzburg and 150 km south-east o ...

, Palzer attended the ''CJD Christophorusschule Berchtesgaden'' until 2009. Competing in the cadets' class at the

2010 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering The 2010 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering () was the first World Championship of Ski Mountaineering sanctioned by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF), successor organization of the International Council for Ski Mountainee ...

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, Palzer won the individual as well as the

vertical race A vertical race is a special kind of ski mountaineering without the typical downhill skiing after ascending. At the mountain running and climbing passages the runners have to carry their skis in their backpacks. Vertical races for women and men are ...

event. In 2011, Palzer won Gold in the juniors' class individual and sprint race at the World Championship in Claut (

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), and Silver in the juniors' vertical race. In 2012, during the European Championship in

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(

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), he finished first in the juniors' individual and vertical race again. In both of these events, the 2011 World Championship as well as in the 2012 European Championship, he participated in the German seniors' relay race teams, which placed twice in the top ten. Also in 2012, he won all the five races of the Youth World Cup.

Selected results

* 2011: 6th,

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, relay, together with Philipp Reiter, Anton Steurer and Konrad Lex * 2012: 5th,

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, relay, together with Josef Rottmoser, Philipp Reiter and Alexander Schuster

Major cycling results

;2023 : 10th Overall

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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Anton Palzer
at SkiMo Stats * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Palzer, Anton 1993 births Living people German male ski mountaineers People from Berchtesgadener Land Cyclists from Upper Bavaria German male cyclists Cyclists from Bavaria 21st-century German sportsmen