Siegfried Grabner

Siegfried Grabner, known as Sigi, was born on 4 February 1975 in Waiern in Carinthia and is an Austrian professional snowboarder who races in the parallel disciplines. He won the junior world championship in 1994 and the European championship in 1995, joined the Burton Alpine Team, and won the parallel giant slalom world championship at Kreischberg in 2003. He finished third in Whistler in 2005 and won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, riding one of his own Torino raceboards. In 2003 he wrote a book titled Boarder zwischen den Welten, and he also develops snowboards sold under the name SG Snowboards. He lives in La Massana, Andorra.