Peter Fuchs(XI)
Karl Peter Maurice Fuchs was part of the Struan skiing family and followed in the footsteps of his father, Karl. He trained abroad with the Kandahar Club and in the Cairngorms with Austrian trainers brought over by his father Karl to work in his ski school.
Just before his 16th birthday Peter left to compete on the European circuit collecting FIS points with his friends Konrad Bartelski and Willy Bailey, nicknamed the "three musketeers".
Peter was part of the British team that went to the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1976, where he finished joint 37th in the downhill.
Peter won the British Championships then retired from racing due to injury and became a coach for the Scottish Espoires and then the British Girls Team. He later took up freestyle skiing. Sadly Peter was killed in a car accident at just 24 years of age.
Just before his 16th birthday Peter left to compete on the European circuit collecting FIS points with his friends Konrad Bartelski and Willy Bailey, nicknamed the "three musketeers".
Peter was part of the British team that went to the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1976, where he finished joint 37th in the downhill.
Peter won the British Championships then retired from racing due to injury and became a coach for the Scottish Espoires and then the British Girls Team. He later took up freestyle skiing. Sadly Peter was killed in a car accident at just 24 years of age.