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Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Stephan Keppler
- Stephan Keppler (born February 1, 1983 in Innsbruck) is a German alpine skier. Keppler grew up in Albstadt, a town on the Swabian Alb, in Baden-Württemberg.
- He learned skiing at his local winter sports club, WSV, of Ebingen.
- As an adult, he joined the Bundeswehr, the German military, as an army-sponsored athlete (German: "Sportsoldat"). In 1999, he took part in his first FIS races.
- In the same season, he won the German youth championship in the slalom, in 2003 in the giant slalom and Super G competitions. Since 2003, Keppler has been starting in races of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, with his debut at Garmisch on February 22.
- At the same location, he earned his first points in that competition in 2006, finishing 21st in the downhill.
- In that same year, he won the German championship in downhill and Super G; this success was followed up by the same title in the Super G in 2007. Keppler took part in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 in Ã…re, but could not reach any satisfying result there.
- In the following FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 in Val-d’Isère he could improve his performances, with results in the top 20 in the downhill and Alpine skiing combined competitions. He represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
- In the downhill event he finished 24th and in Super-G could not finish the course. His biggest success so far came early in the 2010/11 World Cup season, when he came in 2nd, only beaten by Michael Walchhofer, in the Super G at Gröden/Val Gardena, South Tyrol, on December 17, 2010.
- Overall, he has reached the top 10 four times in his World Cup career.
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