Andrew Weibrecht

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Andrew Weibrecht Alpine skiing
Andrew Weibrecht 2018
Andrew Weibrecht 2018
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 10th February 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Lake Placid , United States
size 168 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society New York Ski Ed Foundation
status resigned
End of career May 3, 2018
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Vancouver 2010 Super G
silver Sochi 2014 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Québec 2006 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 30, 2006
 Overall World Cup 22. ( 2015/16 )
 Downhill World Cup 22. (2015/16)
 Super G World Cup 8. (2015/16)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 56th (2015/16)
 Combination World Cup 26. (2014/15)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 0 1 1
 

Andrew Weibrecht (born February 10, 1986 in Lake Placid , New York ) is a retired American ski racer . He specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines, and won two medals at the Olympic Games.

biography

Weibrecht was born in Lake Placid as the fourth of five children to Lisa and Ed Weibrecht and grew up there. In 2001 he won the slalom and the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup and in 2002 he contested his first FIS races and races in the Nor-Am Cup . In 2003 he took part in the US championships for the first time. After he had mainly competed in slalom and giant slalom at the beginning of his career , he gradually switched to the faster disciplines. In 2005 the first appearances in the European Cup followed .

At the Junior World Championship in 2006 , Weibrecht won the bronze medal in the Super-G. On November 30, 2006 he contested his first race in the World Cup , but never drove into the points in his first season. With three victories in the 2006/07 season he decided the overall standings and the combined standings of the Nor-Am Cup for themselves. On November 29, 2007 he made his breakthrough to the top of the world, with a 14th place in the World Cup Super Combined in Beaver Creek . The following day he achieved tenth place in the downhill, his best World Cup result for a long time. The greatest success of his career to date was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, when he surprisingly won the bronze medal in the Super-G. In the winter of 2010/2011, Weibrecht was unsuccessful. He had to end the season early after a shoulder injury that he suffered in slalom training at the end of December.

After his forced break, on December 9, 2011, Weibrecht finished tenth in the Super-G at Beaver Creek for the second time in his career and for the first time in four years in a World Cup race among the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi , like four years ago, he managed a surprise: He won the silver medal in the Super-G behind Kjetil Jansrud . In the 2015/16 season, Weibrecht finally achieved podiums in the World Cup: on December 5, 2015, he finished third in the Super-G of Lake Louise , and on January 22, 2016, he finished second in the Super-G of Kitzbühel .

Due to knee problems, Weibrecht was unable to maintain this level in the following two winters. After he last competed in a World Cup race on March 11, 2018 in Kvitfjell , he announced his retirement from top-class sport on May 3, 2018.

successes

Weibrecht at the 2010 Olympic Games

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 11 placements among the top ten, including 2 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2007/08 93. 44 39. 26th - - - - 38. 18th
2008/09 97. 40 42. 13 30th 24 - - 48. 3.
2009/10 54. 152 26th 78 23. 62 - - 40. 12
2011/12 83. 67 - - 24. 67 - - - -
2012/13 101. 26th - - 29 26th - - - -
2013/14 70. 72 - - 26th 65 - - 33. 7th
2014/15 40. 203 46. 23 12. 167 - - 26th 13
2015/16 22nd 396 22nd 149 8th. 244 56. 3 - -
2016/17 87. 69 39. 21st 27. 48 - - - -
2017/18 106. 30th - - 30th 30th - - - -

Nor-Am Cup

  • Season 2006/07 : overall winner, the first combined score, the second super-G standings, third downhill standings, 8. Giant Slalom Score
  • Season 2007/08 : 10th overall, the second Super-G standings, 4. Combination results
  • 13 podium places, including 4 wins

Junior World Championships

  • Maribor 2004 : 14th Super-G, 20th giant slalom, 31st downhill
  • Bardonecchia 2005 : 20th giant slalom, 23rd descent
  • Québec 2006 : 3rd Super-G, 4th combination, 11th slalom, 16th downhill, 18th giant slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Injury Sidelines Weibrecht for Season . US ski team, January 7, 2011, accessed March 2, 2014
  2. ↑ US-American Andrew Weibrecht ends his career. skiweltcup.tv, May 3, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Woman right, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Placid , New York , United States