Karl Schnabl

Karl Schnabl is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the 1970s. He was born on 8 March 1954 in Achomitz, in the community of Hohenthurn in Carinthia. His best-known results came at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, where he won the gold medal in the individual large hill event and a bronze medal in the individual normal hill event. The same year he won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival. He also took bronze at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in 1975 and finished fourth in the individual large hill at the 1978 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. After studying medicine at Innsbruck University he worked as a doctor in sports medicine until he retired in 2019.