Christl Franziska Antonia Cranz-Borchers was a German alpine skier. Crantz was the dominating skier of the 1930s winning twelve world championship titles between 1934 and 1939. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the Alpine skiing combined competition (slalom and downhill). Cranz was born 1914 in Brussels. After the break-out of World War I, Cranz and her family fled from Belgium to Traifelberg near Reutlingen. There Cranz learnt skiing. Wikipedia
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