Aksel Lund Svindal

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Aksel Lund Svindal Alpine skiing
Aksel Lund Svindal in February 2011
Aksel Lund Svindal in February 2011
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 26th December 1982 (age 37)
place of birth Lørenskog , Norway
size 189 cm
Weight 98 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Nero Alpin
status resigned
End of career February 9, 2019
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 5 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Vancouver 2010 Super G
silver Vancouver 2010 Departure
bronze Vancouver 2010 Giant slalom
gold Pyeongchang 2018 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Bormio 2005 combination
gold Are 2007 Departure
gold Are 2007 Giant slalom
gold Val d'Isère 2009 Super combination
bronze Val d'Isère 2009 Super G
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Super combination
gold Schladming 2013 Departure
bronze Schladming 2013 Super G
silver Åre 2019 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Tarvisio 2002 combination
silver Tarvisio 2002 Super G
bronze Tarvisio 2002 Departure
bronze Tarvisio 2002 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut October 28, 2001
 Individual world cup victories 36
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 2006/07 , 2008/09 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 )
 Super G World Cup 1. ( 2005/06 , 2008/09, 2011/12 ,
2012/13 , 2013/14 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Slalom World Cup 13th (2005/06)
 Combination World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 14th 8th 10
 Super G 17th 6th 7th
 Giant slalom 4th 2 4th
 combination 1 2 4th
 Parallel races 0 1 0
 

Aksel Lund Svindal (born December 26, 1982 in Lørenskog , Viken province ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . He is one of the most successful ski athletes today. As an all-rounder, he won 36 races in four of five disciplines in the Alpine Ski World Cup , which is a Norwegian record. In the 2006/07 and 2008/09 seasons he won the overall World Cup and was also able to win nine World Cup discipline rankings . He was twice Olympic champion and five times world champion . There are also several other medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships as well as 21 Norwegian championship titles .

biography

Youth and advancement

Svindal learned to ski at the age of three. He grew up first in Fetsund , later in Skedsmo . When he was eight years old, his mother's death resulted in a half-orphan. At the age of 15 he moved to Oppdal to the local sports high school, which he graduated four years later. Svindal competed in FIS races from December 1998, and from November 2000 he also started in the European Cup . He was able to celebrate significant international success for the first time at the Junior World Championship in Tarvisio in 2002 . There he won the gold medal in the combined classification, the silver medal in the Super-G and a bronze medal each in the downhill and in the slalom. Early on he was considered a possible successor to the successful Norwegian ski racers Kjetil André Aamodt and Lasse Kjus .

Svindal made his debut in the World Cup on October 28, 2001 at the giant slalom in Sölden . In winter 2002/03 he was able to establish himself at the top of the European Cup. He won five races, with which he won the slalom classification and took third place in the overall classification. Svindal won World Cup points for the first time on December 15, 2002 with 23rd place in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère . Five days later he surprisingly finished sixth in the Super-G in Val Gardena with the high starting number 56. Another two days later he finished ninth in the giant slalom in Alta Badia with starting number 57. On January 26, 2003, he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place in the Hahnenkamm combination in Kitzbühel . At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , he finished fifth in the giant slalom.

Establishment at the top of the world

In the seasons 2003/04 and 2004/05 Svindal classified regularly and in all five disciplines in the points. At the 2005 World Championships in Bormio , he won the silver medal in combination. On November 27, 2005, he achieved his first victory in a World Cup race at the Super-G in Lake Louise . With top 10 placements in all disciplines, he finished second in the overall World Cup in the 2005/06 season . In addition, he won the Super-G discipline, with only two points ahead of Hermann Maier . The decision was only made in the last race when Svindal drove nine hundredths of a second faster than the Austrian. In contrast, at the 2006 Winter Olympics, fifth place was the best result.

At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , Svindal won gold medals in downhill and giant slalom. During the 2006/07 season he dueled Benjamin Raich for victory in the overall World Cup standings. The decision was only made just in favor of Svindal at the World Cup final in Lenzerheide , when he won three races in a row and in the final slalom just reached the 15th place required for points wins, which, despite Raich's race victory, gave him a narrow lead of 13 points. He also won the giant slalom and the combined world cup. He then won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year , the Aftenposten gold medal and the Skieur d'Or .

Injury break and comeback

At the beginning of the 2007/08 season , Svindal initially got two more wins. But on November 27, 2007 he had a bad fall while training for the descent in Beaver Creek and suffered a cheekbone fracture, a double broken nose and a deep cut on the buttocks. Due to the severity of the injuries - an artificial anus had to be placed temporarily - he spent several weeks in hospital and was unable to contest any more races that winter.

In the following winter of 2008/09 , however, Svindal made it back to the top of the world. On the Birds of Prey slope in Beaver Creek, where he had had a bad fall almost a year earlier, he won both the downhill and the Super-G in December 2008, making an impressive comeback. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he won the gold medal in the super combined and the bronze medal in the super G. Again there was a competition with Raich for the overall ranking of the World Cup. Before the last race of the season, the slalom at the World Cup finals in Åre , the Norwegian was leading by two points. Both Raich and Svindal were eliminated, with the latter winning the overall ranking for the second time and with the narrowest lead in the history of the World Cup. In addition, there was victory in the Super G discipline classification.

Olympic and world champions

In the 2009/10 World Cup season , Svindal won a race, in the overall standings and in the discipline ratings, he could not quite maintain the level of the previous winter. However, he won the silver medal in the downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , was Olympic champion in the Super-G and finally completed his set of medals with the bronze medal in the giant slalom. In the 2010/11 season , Svindal won a World Cup race as in the previous year. As in the previous year, he finished fourth in the overall World Cup. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he successfully defended his world championship title in the super combined. In the giant slalom, he led after the first round, but then fell back to fourth place. In the overall World Cup ranking, he also took fourth place.

In the 2011/12 World Cup winter , Svindal showed consistently good performances and was classified in the top 10 a total of 21 times. Podium positions were a bit sparse. He won a Super-G in Lake Louise and a downhill in Schladming , plus two second and one third place. With a lead of 13 points over Didier Cuche , he won the Super-G discipline ranking for the third time, and took third place in the overall ranking.

Svindal achieved a significant increase in the 2012/13 World Cup winter . In the first four Super-G races of the winter, he won three times (in Lake Louise, Val Gardena and Kitzbühel) and came second once. He also won the Lake Louise descent, followed by two more podiums in this discipline. Until the first half of January he was leading in the overall standings from Marcel Hirscher . However, he had to let the Austrian pass him after he had only finished 14th in the super combination in Wengen and was eliminated in the Lauberhorn descent after a fall. At the 2013 World Cup in Schladming, he was considered the favorite for the Super-G. He was in the lead until shortly before the finish, but then fell back to third place after a driving error and won the bronze medal. Three days later he won the second downhill title at this World Cup. Two weeks before the end of the season he won the Super-G discipline for the fourth time. With his victory in the Kvitfjell Super-G, he was able to win his home race for the first time in his career. After the last downhill of the season at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide had to be canceled, he was also the winner in this discipline classification.

In the 2013/14 World Cup season , Svindal continued to show consistently strong performances in the speed disciplines. As in the previous year, his toughest competitor in the battle for the overall World Cup was Marcel Hirscher. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he was one of the top favorites in the downhill and super-G, but came away empty-handed. After the World Championships in St. Moritz and the Winter Olympics in Turin, this was only the third major event in which he went without a medal. In the further course of the season he secured the Downhill World Cup for the second time and the Super-G World Cup for the fifth time. Only Hermann Maier managed to win the small crystal ball five times in the Super-G.

Season loss, comeback and renewed injury

A few days before the start of the 2014/15 season , Svindal suffered a torn Achilles tendon while playing football . At first it seemed as if he couldn't compete in a race that winter. But healing was much faster than originally thought. Svindal received a custom-made ski boot that enabled him to ski despite the continued swelling of the tendon. Without having previously raced, he started at the 2015 World Championship and finished sixth in both the Super-G and the Downhill.

Svindal made an impressive start to the 2015/16 World Cup winter when he won seven of the first nine speed races. In the overall World Cup, a duel between him and Marcel Hirscher was developing again. Before the downhill in Kitzbühel , Svindal was 107 points ahead of Hirscher and started the race as the favorite on January 23, 2016. In the compression on the Hausbergkante Svindal fell heavily, like the Austrians Reichelt and Streitberger before him. He was able to get up and walk on himself, but was then taken to Innsbruck for an examination, where a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his right knee was diagnosed. He was out for several months.

Retired after another comeback and another injury

On December 2, 2016, Svindal made his comeback at the Super-G in Val-d'Isère after his injury and ended up in 2nd place. The next day he reached 3rd place on the downhill. In the descent from Val Gardena he made it onto the podium again with a second place. Svindal had to end the 2016/17 season early due to knee problems .

In the 2018/19 season, Svindal achieved three podium positions, including one victory in the Super-G in Val Gardena . For the Kitzbühel weekend he had to pass due to knee problems. On January 26, 2019, he announced that he would end his career with the 2019 World Ski Championships in Åre . After a disappointing 16th place in the World Cup Super-G, he started the downhill race on February 9, 2019 and won the silver medal at the end of his career, only two hundredths of a second behind his compatriot Kjetil Jansrud .

Private

Svindal was in a relationship with the US ski racer Julia Mancuso from 2010 to 2013 . In his free time he devotes himself to freeriding and has already appeared in several freeride film documentaries.

successes

Aksel Lund Svindal during training in March 2010

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination CityEvent
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2002/03 39. 225 58. 4th 23. 54 26th 54 38. 33 4th 80 - -
2003/04 19th 396 36. 40 15th 138 19th 103 41. 38 6th 77 - -
2004/05 21st 370 30th 83 11. 156 17th 96 37. 35 - - - -
2005/06 2. 1006 13. 182 1. 284 10. 195 13. 205 7th 140 - -
2006/07 1. 1268 7th 321 5. 181 1. 416 21st 118 1. 232 - -
2007/08 40. 234 45. 14th 22nd 100 19th 100 50. 20th - - - -
2008/09 1. 1009 4th 356 1. 292 5. 260 - - 11. 101 - -
2009/10 4th 883 7th 248 3. 314 8th. 211 54. 9 9. 101 - -
2010/11 4th 789 10. 220 16. 113 2. 306 - - 5. 120 5. 30th
2011/12 3. 1131 6th 370 1. 413 11. 205 - - 5. 128 9. 15th
2012/13 2. 1226 1. 439 1. 480 7th 229 47. 15th 5. 63 13. 15th
2013/14 2. 1091 1. 570 1. 346 16. 130 - - 12. 45 - -
2014/15 No results due to injury
2015/16 5. 916 2. 436 3. 310 27. 90 - - 9. 80 - -
2016/17 39. 220 15th 140 18th 80 - - - - - - - -
2017/18 3. 886 2. 612 3. 274 - - - - - - - -
2018/19 20th 419 10. 200 7th 219 - - - - - - - -

World Cup victories

Svindal achieved 80 podium places, including 36 victories (14 × downhill, 17 × Super-G, 4 × giant slalom, 1 × Alpine combination):

Departure

date place country
March 15, 2006 Are Sweden
March 14, 2007 Lenzerheide Switzerland
December 5, 2008 Beaver Creek United States
March 11, 2009 Are Sweden
March 14, 2012 Schladming Austria
November 24, 2012 Lake Louise Canada
December 6, 2013 Beaver Creek United States
December 29, 2013 Bormio Italy
November 28, 2015 Lake Louise Canada
4th December 2015 Beaver Creek United States
19th December 2015 Val Gardena Italy
January 16, 2016 Wengen Switzerland
2nd December 2017 Beaver Creek United States
December 16, 2017 Val Gardena Italy

Giant slalom

date place country
December 21, 2006 Hinterstoder Austria
March 17, 2007 Lenzerheide Switzerland
October 28, 2007 Soelden Austria
January 8, 2011 * Adelboden Switzerland

Super G

date place country
November 27, 2005 Lake Louise Canada
March 15, 2007 Lenzerheide Switzerland
November 25, 2007 Lake Louise Canada
December 6, 2008 Beaver Creek United States
December 18, 2009 Val Gardena Italy
November 27, 2011 Lake Louise Canada
November 25, 2012 Lake Louise Canada
December 14, 2012 Val Gardena Italy
January 25, 2013 Kitzbühel Austria
March 3, 2013 Kvitfjell Norway
December 1st, 2013 Lake Louise Canada
20th December 2013 Val Gardena Italy
November 29, 2015 Lake Louise Canada
December 18, 2015 Val Gardena Italy
22nd January 2016 Kitzbühel Austria
19th January 2018 Kitzbühel Austria
December 14, 2018 Val Gardena Italy

Alpine combination

date place country
November 30, 2006 Beaver Creek United States

* at the same time as Cyprien Richard

European Cup

  • 2002/03 season : 3rd overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 4th giant slalom ranking
  • 7 podium places, including 5 wins
date place country discipline
December 11, 2002 St. Vigil Italy Giant slalom
January 7, 2003 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
January 16, 2003 Saas-Fee Switzerland Giant slalom
February 24, 2003 Madesimo Italy slalom
February 25, 2003 Madesimo Italy slalom

More Achievements

  • 21 Norwegian championship titles :
    • 3 × departure: 2006, 2010 and 2013
    • 5 × Super-G: 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2013
    • 4 × giant slalom: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2012
    • 3 × slalom: 2003, 2004 and 2006
    • 5 × combination: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2012 and 2013
  • 2 Super G wins in the Australia New Zealand Cup
  • 13 victories in FIS races (3 × downhill, 2 × super-G, 5 × giant slalom, 3 × slalom)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Aksel Lund Svindal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography. (No longer available online.) Aksel Lund Svindal's website, archived from the original on October 19, 2012 ; accessed on August 22, 2012 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Portrait of Aksel Lund Svindal. (No longer available online.) Skiinfo.de, February 14, 2011, archived from the original on October 24, 2010 ; Retrieved February 20, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Crime in Lenzerheide: Raich wins, but Svindal triumphs. (No longer available online.) Skiinfo.de, March 18, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 21, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / magazin.skiinfo.de  
  4. ↑ Svindal falls badly. Netzeitung , November 28, 2007, archived from the original on November 30, 2010 ; Retrieved November 28, 2007 .
  5. ↑ 100 kilograms of sensitivity. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 20, 2010, accessed on February 21, 2011 .
  6. ↑ The whole World Cup is happy with Aksel Svindal. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, December 6, 2008, archived from the original on January 23, 2011 ; Retrieved February 21, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ch
  7. ↑ Raich blunders, Matt shines, Svindal World Cup winner. Der Standard , March 14, 2009, accessed February 21, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Super-G: Gold for Ligety, Zurbriggen disqualified. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, February 6, 2013, archived from the original on March 9, 2014 ; Retrieved February 6, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ch
  9. ↑ Achilles tendon rupture stops Aksel Lund Svindal. Der Standard, October 19, 2014, accessed February 5, 2015 .
  10. ↑ "Are you crazy, Mr. Svindal?" Aargauer Zeitung, February 4, 2015, accessed on February 5, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Svindal has to end the season. sport.orf.at, January 23, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Svindal stops after the World Cup in Aare. tt.com, January 27, 2019, accessed on January 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Svindal Silver: Losers grumble. Sport1, February 9, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Svindal and Mancuso: Separation! (No longer available online.) Ski-online.ch, September 15, 2013, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ch
  15. ↑ The Evolution of a Freeskier - Aksel Lund Svindal. RedBull, December 23, 2013, accessed December 23, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Svindal, Aksel Lund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Lørenskog , Viken Province