Barbara Gruber (born 15 December 1977) 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 equipmen ...
and
mountain biker
Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and per ...
.
Gruber was born in
Bad Reichenhall
Bad Reichenhall ( Central Bavarian: ''Reichahoi'') is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps (including Mount Sta ...
. Like her parents and siblings, she passed the framer training. She started with sports after the birth of her son Johannes, at first with mountain biking. She became a member of the German ski mountaineering team and has been a member of the international Dynafit team since 2005.
[''Internationales Dynafit Team''](_blank)
Dynafit. Together with her husband Herbert she lives near
Weißbach bei Lofer
Weißbach bei Lofer is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg in Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Euro ...
.
[ Stefan Winter: ''Fünf Engel für den DAV'' (German), in ''DAV Panorama 2/2007''.]
Selected results
Ski mountaineering
* 2004:
** 1st,
Mountain Attack
The "Mountain Attack" is an annual Austrian ski mountaineering competition, carried out near Saalbach since 1999.
The competition is separated in a short distance and a long distance course, each offered for a female and a male racer class. The ...
race
* 2005:
** 1st, German Championship single
** 1st, Mountain Attack race
** 2nd, European Cup team (together with
Judith Graßl)
** 3rd,
European Championship 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 ...
** 3rd, European Championship team race (together with Judith Graßl)
** 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with Judith Graßl and
Silvia Treimer)
** 7th, World Cup team (together with Judith Graßl)
* 2006:
** 1st, German Championship single
** 1st, Mountain Attack race
** 4th,
World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
relay race (together with Judith Graßl, Silvia Treimer and
Stefanie Koch)
** 8th, World Championship vertical race
* 2007:
** 1st, German Championship vertical race
** 2nd, Mountain Attack race
** 4th,
European Championship vertical race
* 2008:
** 1st, German Championship single
** 1st, German Championship vertical race
** 1st, Mountain Attack race
** 1st,
Hochgrat ski rallye
* 2009:
** 1st, German Championship vertical race
* 2010:
** 1st, Mountain Attack tour
** 2nd,
Sellaronda
The Sellaronda is the ski circuit around the Sella group in Northern Italy.
The Sella massif lies between the four Ladin valleys of Badia, Gherdëina, Fascia, and Fodom and is divided between the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino and Bell ...
Skimarathon, together with
Judith Graßl[Goldenes Buch ''Sellaronda Skimarathon''](_blank)
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* 2011:
** 1st, Champ Or Cramp
** 2nd, Sellaronda Skimarathon, together with Patrizia Wacker
Mountain biking
* 2007:''Barbara Gruber''
, Martin's Bike Shop, 2007.
** 1st, "
Glocknerkönig light" race
** 1st, "
Hochsteintrophy"
** 1st, St.Veit mountain race team
** 1st,
Heutal mountain single time race
** 1st, Bike Festival
Kaprun
Kaprun () is a municipality in the Zell am See District in the state of Salzburg, Austria. The town is a tourist destination known as "Zell am See-Kaprun" with the neighbouring Zell am See and known for the glacier Kitzsteinhorn.
Geography
It is ...
** 1st, "
Saalach
The Saalach is a river in Austria and Germany, and a left tributary of the Salzach.
Course
The river begins, as the stream, in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kitzbühel Alps at the lake below the high Gamshag. From there it flows i ...
taltrophy"
References
External links
Barbara Gruberat ''skimountaineering.com''
(German), M2b-Redaktion, February 24, 2006.
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1977 births
Living people
German female ski mountaineers
People from Bad Reichenhall
Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria