Alexander Koll (ski racer)

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Alexander Koll Alpine skiing
Alexander Koll, Schladming Night Race 2009
Alexander Koll in January 2009
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 24, 1982
place of birth Linz
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , combination
society Sports Union Freistadt
status resigned
End of career March 2010
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Tarvisio 2002 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 4th December 2005
 Overall World Cup 81st ( 2006/2007 )
 Slalom World Cup 35th (2006/2007)
 Combination World Cup 28th (2006/2007)
 

Alexander Koll (born May 24, 1982 in Linz , Upper Austria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He was particularly successful in the slalom discipline . Koll drove in the World Cup three times into the top 15 slalom vote decided in the 2006/2007 season of the European Cup for themselves, won in the Junior World Cup 2002 bronze medal in the slalom and was twice Austrian slalom champion .

biography

Alexander Koll is a son of the biathlete Josef Koll . After primary school in his hometown of Eidenberg , he attended the main ski school in Windischgarsten from 1992 and the ski high school in Stams from 1996 to 2001 . National and international successes in the field of schoolchildren and youngsters followed in the winter of 1997/1998 with the first starts in FIS races . In 1999, the Member was Sportunion Freistadt Upper Austrian national champion in slalom. In the same year, Koll suffered two injuries. First he suffered a compression fracture of the eighth thoracic vertebra during downhill training at the Austrian championships on March 22nd , then on September 19th he suffered a tendon injury in his thigh while playing football.

In 2000 Koll was accepted into the junior team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). The first podium in an FIS race followed six days later, on January 22nd, 2001, the first start in the European Cup . After the first victories in FIS races, he was nominated for the Junior World Championship in 2002 in Tarvisio , where he won the bronze medal in the combination and was fourth in the slalom. The following season 2002/2003 ended early for Koll. He suffered a torsional fracture of his thigh during a European Cup downhill run in Laax on December 20th and was unable to take part in any competitions during the rest of the winter. As a result, he increasingly concentrated on the discipline of slalom.

After further victories in FIS races, Koll achieved the first top 10 placements in the European Cup in the 2004/2005 season. The first podium in this racing series followed on December 13, 2005 with third place in the slalom of Alta Badia . Shortly before that, Koll had taken part in his first two World Cup races, in which he still had no points. He won his first World Cup points on January 24, 2006 with 22nd place in the night slalom on the Schladminger Planai . From the 2006/2007 season , Koll competed regularly in the World Cup, taking part in super combinations in addition to slaloms. This winter he drove in four World Cup races under the fastest 20 and achieved the best result in 14th place in the slalom of the Hahnenkamm races in Kitzbühel . In addition, he was still active in the European Cup, where he won the slalom classification in the 2006/2007 season with two victories in the slaloms of Donnersbachwald and Oberjoch and finished second in the overall classification. At the Austrian championships in 2007 he was national champion in slalom.

In the winter of 2007/2008 , Koll concentrated largely on the World Cup. At the beginning of the season he achieved the best World Cup result of his career with twelfth place in the slalom on the Reiteralm , after which he was able to score twice more with placings around 15th place by mid-January, including his best World Cup result with 14th place in the super combined of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen in this discipline. In the rest of the winter, however, he could not show any more countable results, which is why he was increasingly used in the European Cup. After Koll was only able to score once as 16th in the Schladming slalom in the 2008/2009 World Cup season , and he was also unsuccessful in the European Cup due to many failures, he lost the ÖSV squad in spring 2009. Nevertheless, he was called up to join the team at the European Indoor Championships on November 7th, 2009, where he came in fifth as the best Austrian. After that, he was able to take part in four World Cup races again in the 2009/2010 season , but never scored points. In the European Cup he was once among the top ten. In March 2010 , Koll became Austrian Slalom State Champion for the second time, after which he ended his career.

successes

Junior World Championships

  • Tarvis 2002 : 3rd combination, 4th slalom, 9th descent, 22nd Super-G

World cup

  • 3 placements among the best 15

European Cup

date place country discipline
January 13, 2007 Donnersbachwald Austria slalom
February 16, 2007 Oberjoch Germany slalom

More Achievements

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexander Koll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ÖSV squad for Olympic winter with Maier and Götschl. ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kleine Zeitung , May 8, 2009.
  2. ↑ Alex Koll: A farewell title. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , March 19, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Koll, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria