Fabian Gratz
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 July 1997 Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
| Skiing career | |
| Country |  Germany |
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
| Club | TSV Altenau |
| Disciplines | Giant slalom |
World Cup debut | 2 February 2020 (age 22) |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 1 – (2026) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 2 – (2023, 2025) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 7 – (2020–2026) |
| Podiums | 0 |
Overall titles | 0 – (37th in 2026) |
Discipline titles | 0 – (11th in GS, 2026) |
Fabian Gratz (born 22 July 1997) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in giant slalom. He represented Germany at the 2026 Winter Olympics and has also represented Germany at multiple World Championships.[1]
Early life
Born in Starnberg, Bavaria, Gratz played several sports as a child, including football and athletics, but found skiing to be his greatest passion.[2][3]
Career
Gratz began competing in international races in 2013 at the age of sixteen and debuted on the Europa Cup in 2017. His first major international competition was the 2018 Junior World Championships in Davos, Switzerland.[4]
He earned his first points on the Europa Cup in January 2020. As of the 2025-26 season, he has been on the podium a total of five times in the Europa Cup; one of those is a victory, which he scored in a giant slalom race in Val Cenis on January 17, 2024.[5] Gratz made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom on home soil at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 2 February 2020.[4] He ended up in 31th position, being 0,01 s from a qualification to the second run.[5][6]
The 2021-22 season was Gratz's first primarily racing in World Cup events, with 8 starts. During this season, Gratz also scored his first points at this circuit; he ended up scoring 28th place twice in Kranjska Goras' two giant slalom races.[1][5] At the end of the season, he participated in the 2023 World Championships. He continued to ski alternately on the Europa and World Cup tours during the next few seasons; Gratz collected World Cup points occasionally during the next three World Cup seasons.[5]
He also made his second World Championships appearance at the 2025 World Alpine Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.[4]
During the 2025-26 World Cup season, Gratz achieved his first World Cup top five in Alta Badia, Italy, in December.[7] Being 29th after run 1, he had the best time in the second run and that result plus two top-fifteen finishes earlier that season (at Copper Mountain and Val d'Isère) qualified him for the upcoming Winter Olympics.[8] He posted his second top ten the next month in Adelboden, Switzerland,[4] then posted the third-fastest first run in the final pre-Olympic giant slalom in Schladming, before dropping to eleventh after the second run.[9][10]
At the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, Gratz competed in the giant slalom and slalom, but was unable to complete both runs in either event, despite having the tenth-best first run in the giant slalom.[11][2]
Personal life
In his spare time, Gratz enjoys bicycling, photographing and surfing.[3]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | ||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | |
| 2022 | 24 | 145 | — | 53 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | 145 | — | 51 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | 123 | — | 46 | — | — |
| 2025 | 27 | 100 | — | 30 | — | — |
| 2026 | 28 | 37 | — | 11 | — | — |
Top-ten results
- 0 podiums, 3 top tens
| Season | ||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2026 | 21 December 2025 |  Alta Badia, Italy |
Giant slalom | 5th |
| 10 January 2026 | .svg.png){kind=small} Adelboden, Switzerland |
Giant slalom | 9th | |
| 24 March 2026 |  Hafjell, Norway |
Giant slalom | 10th |
World Championship results
| Year | ||||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team combined |
Team event | |
| 2023 | 25 | — | DNF2 | — | — | — | N/a | — |
| 2025 | 27 | — | 18 | — | — | N/a | — | 5 |
Olympic results
| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Team combined | |
| 2026 | 28 | DNF1 | DNF2 | — | — | — |
References
- 1 2 Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Fabian GRATZ - Athlete Biography - Alpine Skiing". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- 1 2 "Fabian Gratz". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- 1 2 "Fabian Gratz". dsv-jahrbuch.de (in German). German Ski Association. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Fabian Gratz - Athlete Biography". FIS-ski.com. International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Fabian Gratz | Steckbrief, Bilder und News". 1&1 (in German). 22 July 1997. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- ↑ Federation, International Ski and Snowboard. "FIS | Alpine Skiing Results - Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) 2019/2020". www.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- ↑ Lamparter, Margot (21 December 2025). "Gratz erwischt Sahnetag und wird sensationeller Fünfter" [Gratz has a fantastic day and finishes a sensational fifth]. Sportschau (in German). Cologne: Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ↑ "Fabian Gratz macht mit Sensationslauf 24 Plätze gut" [Fabian Gratz improves his position by 24 places with a sensational run]. n-tv (in German). Cologne: RTL Deutschland. 21 December 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
- ↑ "Deutsches Riesenslalom-Duo verpasst Coup in Schladming" [German giant slalom duo misses out on coup in Schladming]. Lippische Landes-Zeitung (in German). Lippischer Zeitungsverlag. 27 January 2026. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ↑ Eisenberger, Korbinian (28 January 2026). "Gratz, Grammel und das Glatteis" [Gratz, Grammel and the black ice]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich: Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
- ↑ "Results and analysis - Men's Giant Slalom - Milano Cortina 2026" (PDF). FIS-ski.com. International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
External links
- Fabian Gratz at FIS (alpine)
- Fabian Gratz at Olympics.com
- Fabian Gratz at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
- Fabian Gratz at Olympedia
- Fabian Gratz at InterSportStats
- Fabian Gratz at Milano Cortina 2026
- Fabian Gratz on Instagram