Andreas Matt

Andreas Matt

Andreas Matt before the
2014 Winter Olympics

nation

Austria

birthday

19th October 1982 (age 37)

place of birth

Zams, Austria

size

192 cm

Weight

100 kg

Career

discipline

Ski cross

society

SC Flirsch

status

resigned

End of career

15th September 2016

Medal table

Olympic games	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
World Cup medals	1 ×	0 ×	1 ×

winter Olympics
silver	2010 Vancouver	Ski cross
Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold	2009 Inawashiro	Ski cross
bronze	2011 Deer Valley	Ski cross

Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup

Debut in the World Cup	January 18, 2003
World Cup victories	7th
Overall World Cup	2. ( 2010/11 )
Ski cross world cup	1. (2010/11)

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Ski cross	7th	9	5

last change: December 18, 2018

Andreas "Andy" Matt (born October 19, 1982 in Zams ) is a former Austrian freestyle skier in the ski cross discipline . He became world champion in this discipline in 2009, won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 2010, bronze in 2011 and the overall World Cup. His brothers Mario (* 1979) and Michael (* 1993) were or are alpine ski racers .

biography

Andreas Matt is a trained carpenter and was a snowboarder in his youth . After his brother Mario, who was three years older than him, surprisingly won the slalom in Kitzbühel in January 2000 , Andreas started skiing again and training seriously. He took part in smaller national races and in January 2003 was a forerunner in the women's world cup races on Patscherkofel . A little later he was discovered by the former Austrian ski racer and Salomon racing director Günther Mader for the freestyle skiing discipline ski cross.

In the 2003/04 season , Matt drove for the first time in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and reached the first World Cup points in his second race in 27th place. After two rather mixed winters with only one place in the top 15, he finished seventh and tenth in the 2006/07 season and made it to the small finals at the 2007 World Cup in Madonna di Campiglio , finishing in sixth place. He achieved his first podium in the World Cup in the last race of the 2007/08 season with third place in Valmalenco .

The final breakthrough to the top of the world came in the winter of 2008/09 . Matt drove in the first World Cup race of the season, in St. Johann in Tirol , in second place behind the Swiss Mike Schmid and a few days later, on January 10, 2009, won his first race in the Ski Cross World Cup in Les Contamines . This is followed by a third place in Myrkdalen-Voss . He celebrated his greatest success so far on March 2, 2009 at the World Championships in Inawashiro , Japan , where he won the gold medal in front of his teammate Thomas Zangerl . He was unable to contest the last two races of the season because he suffered a pelvic contusion while qualifying for the ski cross race in Meiringen - Hasliberg . In the Ski Cross World Cup he finished sixth.

The following season 2009/10 did not start quite as desired, but Matt was able to improve and finally won his second World Cup race on January 20, 2010 in Blue Mountain . This was followed by a second place in Lake Placid behind the Canadian Christopher Del Bosco . A month later, on February 21, won Matt at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver the silver medal in ski cross. He finished all runs in second place and was only defeated by Mike Schmid in the grand finale.

On January 29, 2011 Matt won his third World Cup race in Grasgehren and, as World Cup leader, drove to the Freestyle World Championships in the Deer Valley Resort , Utah , where he won his second bronze medal on February 4. In the final he had to admit defeat to Christopher Del Bosco and the Finn Jouni Pellinen . On March 3, Matt won the World Cup for the fourth time in Grindelwald . Three days later he secured the ski cross discipline ranking early with second place in Hasliberg . Matt underscored this success with another win on March 13th in Branäs, Sweden . By a fifth in the last race of the season on March 19 in Myrdalen-Voss he lost the battle for the big crystal globe for the freestyle World Cup victory in the moguls driver Guilbaut Colas , the next day reached the necessary stage win at the same venue. In the 2011/12 season Matt was on the podium three times in World Cup races, including once as the winner.

Due to an injury, Matt did not get past fifth place in the 2012/13 World Cup season. In the winter of 2013/14 he was able to build on the achievements of previous years. He was three times on the podium of a World Cup race, including once as a winner. In the discipline classification he dueled with the Swede Victor Öhling Norberg and ultimately had to admit defeat to the latter, just twelve points behind. The 2014 Winter Olympics , where he finished 14th , were somewhat disappointing for him . On September 15, 2016, the Tyrolean resigned as an active ski crosser.

Andreas Matt is married and has two sons.

successes

Olympic games

2010 Vancouver : 2nd ski cross
Sochi 2014 : 14th ski cross

World championships

2007 Madonna di Campiglio : 6th ski cross
2009 Inawashiro : 1st ski cross
2011 Deer Valley : 3rd ski cross
Voss 2013 : 16th ski cross
Kreischberg 2015 : 9th ski cross

World Cup ratings

Season 2008/09 : 6th Ski Cross World Cup
Season 2009/10 : 10th overall world cup, 4th ski cross world cup
2010/11 season : 2nd overall World Cup, 1st Ski Cross World Cup
Season 2011/12 : 5th Ski Cross World Cup
2013/14 season : 9th overall World Cup, 2nd Ski Cross World Cup

World Cup victories

Matt has achieved 21 podiums so far, including 7 wins:

date	place	country
January 10, 2009	Les Contamines	France
January 20, 2010	Blue Mountain	Canada
January 29, 2011	Grass ears	Germany
March 3, 2011	Grindelwald	Switzerland
March 13, 2011	Branäs	Sweden
December 18, 2011	San Candido	Italy
December 15, 2013	Val Thorens	France