Hans Petter Buraas

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Hans Petter Buraas Alpine skiing
Hans Petter Buraas
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 20th March 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Bærum , Norway
size 189 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society Bærum Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 2007
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Nagano 1998 slalom
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Lake Placid 1994 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 3rd December 1994
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 19. ( 1997/98 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 40th (1997/98)
 Slalom World Cup 3. (1997/98)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 1 4th 5
 

Hans Petter Buraas (born March 20, 1975 in Bærum near Oslo ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . In 1998 he became Olympic champion in slalom and won a race in the ski world cup .

biography

Buraas achieved his first international success by winning the bronze medal in giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in Lake Placid in 1994 . From the 1994/95 season he started in the World Cup . At the beginning of next winter he won the first points in the giant slalom in Tignes as 27th , after which he could not score again until January 1997.

The Norwegian made his breakthrough in the 1997/98 season . At the end of November he finished sixth in the Park City slalom for the first time in the top ten and in mid-December he was third in the Sestriere slalom for the first time on the podium. A third place in the Schladming slalom and second place in the Kitzbühel slalom followed in January . In February, Buraas celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan , when he was over 1.3 seconds ahead of his compatriot Ole Kristian Furuseth and became the Olympic champion in slalom. In the World Cup he achieved another second place at the season finale in Crans-Montana , placing him third in the Slalom World Cup behind the two Austrians Thomas Sykora and Thomas Stangassinger .

In the next two seasons he was mostly able to place himself in the top ten in the slalom if he could finish the race, but he only got on the podium once in these two years. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail , he failed in the first slalom run. In the 2000/01 season he was able to improve again and celebrated his first and only World Cup victory on December 11, 2000 in the slalom of Sestriere. In January he also made it onto the podium in Kitzbühel and Schladming and achieved fifth place in the Slalom World Cup with another two fourth places. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg , however, he was eliminated in the first round of the slalom, just like two years earlier.

Due to a serious injury that Buraas had suffered in training in May 2001, he could not take part in any races during the entire winter of 2001/02. In the 2002/03 season he returned to the ski circuit and was back on the podium as third in the slaloms in Bormio and Schladming. With a total of five top 10 places, he finished seventh in the Slalom World Cup. At the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , however, he again failed to achieve a result, this time he was eliminated after a goal error in the second round.

The following 2003/04 season was already over for Buraas in December after another injury. After that, he could no longer match his previous performance. In the 2004/05 season he was only able to score once as 18th in the slalom of Sestriere. In the winter of 2005/06 he came 13th and 12th respectively in the slaloms of Madonna di Campiglio and Schladming. This enabled him to take part in the Olympic Winter Games in Turin for the second time . However, he failed in the first slalom run. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season , Buraas finished 26th in the Levi slalom for the last time in his career in the World Cup points. His last major event was the 2007 World Cup in Åre . At his fourth world championship, the Norwegian was included for the first time. Buraas reached the very good eighth place considering his World Cup results. After that winter he ended his career.

Buraas contested a total of 118 races (78 slaloms and 40 giant slaloms) in his twelve-year World Cup career. In the slalom he achieved one victory, another nine podium places and a total of 25 top 10 results. In the giant slalom, a 15th place in Yongpyong on February 28, 1998 was his best result. Buraas is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points
1995/96 144. 4th 57. 4th - -
1996/97 120. 10 44. 10 - -
1997/98 19th 443 40. 23 3. 420
1998/99 46. 149 - - 16. 149
1999/00 31. 261 - - 9. 261
2000/01 20th 340 - - 5. 340
2002/03 32. 280 - - 7th 280
2004/05 128. 13 - - 50. 13
2005/06 87. 50 - - 30th 50
2006/07 140 5 - - 58. 5

World Cup victories

Buraas achieved 10 podiums, including 1 victory:

date place country discipline
December 11, 2000 Sestriere Italy slalom

Junior World Championships

Norwegian championships

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personal data
SURNAME Buraas, Hans Petter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Bærum , Norway