Michael Pircher

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Pircher (second from left) at the 2017 World Ski Championships with Team Hirscher

Michael "Mike" Pircher (born July 20, 1975 in Schladming , Styria ) is an Austrian alpine ski and former snowboard trainer . After various coaching activities in the Austrian Ski Association , he supervised Marcel Hirscher from 2013 to 2019 as an individual trainer .

biography

Mike Pircher was active as a ski racer himself in his youth and was considered a talented all-rounder. During a downhill inspection in Pitztal , however, he had a hard fall and suffered a debris fracture in his thigh , which meant that he had to give up hope of a career in sports. Despite a sliding vortex , he began studying sports science at the University of Graz , which he completed in 2005 with a thesis on the subject of "laterality analysis".

Since the 1998/99 season, Pircher has been a coach for the ÖSV . After initially working as a snowboard trainer , he worked as a fitness and snow trainer in the junior division and finally took over the management of the technology group in the World Cup . From winter 2013/14 he was available to the most successful ÖSV athlete Marcel Hirscher as an individual trainer and helped his protégé to numerous victories in the overall World Cup , World Championships and Olympic Winter Games . Pircher, who is often described in the media as a “ workaholic ”, as a snow trainer in the Hirscher team ensured optimal training conditions on the slopes. In April 2020, the ÖSV announced its commitment as the men's giant slalom trainer.

Mike Pircher lives with his wife Laura in Schladming.

Awards

  • 2018: Styrian Sports Award for "special services in sport"

bibliography

  • Michael Pircher: Sideways analysis: Relationships between muscular imbalances, strength ratios and ski technical sideways. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Graz 2005, 135 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Schuen: You are the goldsmiths of sport. In: Kleine Zeitung , edition of February 25, 2018, pp. 16-17.
  2. ↑ Diploma theses at the Institute for Sports Science. University of Graz , accessed on February 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Hirscher gets its own trainer. ORF , April 18, 2013, accessed on April 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Matthias Nemetz: Hirscher: These are the people behind the success. Laola1.at , March 5, 2017, accessed February 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ New momentum with Hirscher's coach. ORF , April 20, 2020, accessed on April 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Gala Night of Sports 2018. In: Kleine Zeitung , edition of May 25, 2018, pp. 67–71.
personal data
SURNAME Pircher, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pircher, Mike (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian alpine ski trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Schladming