Albert Burger

Albert Burger, born on 8 May 1955 in Kranzegg in Bavaria and died on 16 November 2023 in Günzburg, was a West German alpine skier who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics. He raced for SC Rettenberg and emerged in the mid-1970s as a giant slalom specialist, earning his first World Cup points in 1975. At the 1976 Innsbruck Games he finished tenth in the giant slalom and equal fifteenth in the slalom, and he won his only West German national title that year. At Lake Placid in 1980 he was twentieth in the giant slalom and was disqualified in the slalom. He retired after the 1981 to 1982 season and became a coach with the German Skiing Federation.