Werner Franz

Werner Franz (born 8 March 1972) is a former Austrian alpine skier.

Franz was born in Weissbriach and he could already be found in the mountains at the age of 2, learning his first skiing techniques. He was coached by his father who was determined to make a professional skier out of his son. When Werner won an amateur race against young skiers of his own age he was complimented by his father who gave him newer and better skiing equipment as a present.

The good performances in his younger years gave him self-confidence, which resulted in his goals to achieve. This result and a fourth place later in the same weekend earned him the fifth position in the overall Super G World Cup of that season. On 14 December 2006, only a few races into the new season he announced his retirement from international races, just one day after Andreas Schifferer did the same.

He is the cousin of alpine skier Max Franz.

Statistics downhillsuper gcombinedtotal World Cup victories 1 1 0 2 World Cup podiums 13 4 2 19 World Cup top tens 47 14 8 69

World Cup victoriesdatevenuediscipline 13 February 2000 Sankt Anton Super G 11 December 2004 Val-d'Isère Downhill

First World Cup start 1992 AspenFirst World Cup points 1992 AspenFirst World Cup podium 1993 Val Gardena

Statistics updated until: 26 November 2006