Boris Strel (20 October 1959 – 28 March 2013) was a

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

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. He was born in

Žiri Žiri (; formerly also ''Žir'', locally ''Žier'',Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, pp. 490–491. ) is a town in northwestern Slovenia. It is the administrative seat of ...

(then part of

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). In December 1981, Strel took the only Slovenian top-level win in men's

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in the 1982 Alpine Skiing World Cup competition in

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. He ended his career after the 1984/85 season due to problems with his

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and was later active as a ski school and a ski repair shop owner. Strel committed suicide on 28 March 2013.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

Olympic Games results

World Championships results

From

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through

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, the

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were also the

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for alpine skiing.

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* * 1959 births 2013 suicides 2013 deaths Slovenian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Yugoslavia Winter World University Games medalists in alpine skiing People from Žiri FISU World University Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia Competitors at the 1985 Winter Universiade Suicides in Slovenia {{Slovenia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub