Anna Gasser

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Anna Gasser Snowboard
Anna Gasser Portrait.jpg
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 16th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Villach , Austria
size 165 cm
Weight 52 kg
Career
discipline Slopestyle , big air
society SGS Spittal / Drau
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
X-Games 4 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Pyeongchang 2018 Big Air
FIS Snowboard world championships
silver Kreischberg 2015 Slopestyle
gold Sierra Nevada 2017 Big Air
Winter X Games logo X-Games
silver Aspen 2017 Big Air
gold Hafjell 2017 Slopestyle
bronze Hafjell 2017 Big Air
gold Aspen 2018 Big Air
gold Fornebu 2019 Big Air
gold Hafjell 2020 Big Air
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 11, 2013
 World Cup victories 8th
 Freestyle World Cup 1. ( 2016/17 )
 Big Air World Cup 1. (2016/17, 2017/18 )
 Slopestyle World Cup 3. ( 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Big Air 7th 2 2
 Slopestyle 1 2 1
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 Overall rating 40th (2013/14)
 Slopestyle rating 10. (2013/14)
last change: March 27, 2020

Anna Maria Gasser (born August 16, 1991 in Villach ) is an Austrian snowboarder who competes in the disciplines of Slopestyle and Big Air . She is a three-time winner of the X-Games ( Slopestyle 2017 , Big Air 2018 , Big Air 2019 ) as well as World Champion (2017) and Olympic Champion (2018) in Big Air.

Career

Gasser grew up in Großdombra in the community of Millstatt am See and went to school in Spittal an der Drau . She first trained in artistic gymnastics before turning to snowboarding in 2010. She finally began her international snowboard career in the 2010/11 season in competitions of the TTR World Snowboard Tour . She achieved her first podium finish with third place in the Railjam at the Rip Curl Sista Sessions in Mayrhofen . In the following season she won her first victory in slopestyle at the “Blue Tomato Plan P” in Schladming . This was followed by a third place in slopestyle at the O'Neill Evolution 2012 in Davos . At the Snowboard World Championships in 2013 she finished 18th. At the O'Neill Pleasure Jam in Schladming in November 2013, she finished second.

"Cab Double Cork 900"

In November 2013, she became the first woman to stand the Cab Double Cork 900 , a double back flip with two and a half helical turns.

In January 2014 she came third at the Snowboard Jamboree in Stoneham and fifth at the Winter X Games 2014 in Aspen . In the FIS World Cup in 2013 she reached fourth place in Cardrona and ninth place in Špindlerův Mlýn . She achieved her best World Cup result and at the same time the only World Cup podium to date in January 2014 with a third place in Stoneham .

2014 Winter Olympics

The Carinthian qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . There she took first place in the qualification for the main competition. In the final she reached tenth place. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season she won the O'Neill Pleasure Jam in Schladming . This was followed by second places in the season at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Mammoth and at the Burton US Open 2015 in Vail and a victory in slopestyle at the Spring Battle in Flachauwinkl in March 2015. She won the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg with her third Run for the silver medal in slopestyle.
The following season she won in slopestyle at the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge and in Big Air at Nine Queens in Serfaus .

2016/18 wave of success in the World Cup, the X Games, World Championship and Olympic gold

On November 12, 2016, she won her very first Big Air World Cup competition in Milan and ensured the first victory for an Austrian in this discipline, after having previously won one in the freestyle discipline with Tyrolean Nicola Pederzolli (Niki Pederzolli) Halfpipe victory in Serre Chevalier (FRA, March 8, 2003).

Anna Gasser, named Sportswoman of the Year 2017

She also won the next two competitions in Alpensia and Mönchengladbach . In January 2017 she also won a slopestyle competition for the first time on Kreischberg. She then came second in the Slopestyle World Cup in Laax and won the silver medal in Big Air at the Winter X Games 2017 in Aspen. In February 2017, she won the Big Air World Cup in Quebec and thus won the Big Air World Cup prematurely the Freestyle World Cup. In early March 2017, she triumphed in slopestyle at the Burton US Open in Vail . At the following competition, the X-Games Norway 2017 in Hafjell , she won the bronze medal in Big Air and the gold medal in Slopestyle. At the World Championships in Sierra Nevada on March 17, she won the gold medal in Big Air with a Double Cork 1080 shown for the first time and the highest number of points 100.

Already determined as the winner of the Freestyle World Cup, Gasser decided not to take part in the World Cup finals in Špindlerův Mlýn , which will begin on March 24 ; she said, "she has been in continuous use since November and needs a break".

In November 2017, the 26-year-old was the first female snowboarder in Austria to be named Sportswoman of the Year . In the same month, in Milan and Beijing , she won her sixth and seventh World Cup victory at the first Big Air World Cups of the 2017/18 season. At the Winter X Games 2018 in Aspen, she won the gold medal in Big Air. After the 2014 Games, Gasser was at the XXIII. Olympic Winter Games in February 2018 in Pyeongchang , South Korea , part of the Austrian team for the second time . Like many of her competitors, she had to struggle with the gusty wind in the slopestyle competition and ended up in 15th place as the favorite. On February 22nd, she won the gold medal in Big Air, which was held for the first time as part of the Olympic snowboard competition . In March 2018 she was second in slopestyle at the Burton US Open and first in slopestyle at the Spring Battle in Flachauwinkl. At the X-Games Norway 2018 in Fornebu , she took seventh place in Big Air. She finished the season in ninth place in the Freestyle World Cup and, as in the previous year, first place in the Big Air World Cup.

After being the first woman to safely stand the "Cab Double Cork 900" in 2013, in November 2018 she succeeded for the first time in the "Cab Triple Underflip 1260", a triple backflip with a half turn.

2019 comeback after a long injury

After breaking up a hairline fracture in in January 2019 in Laax Open ankle and a bruise of the talus had closed, they had to take a long injury break. She missed the X Games and the Snowboard World Championships that year . During a video shoot in Obergurgl in May 2019, she became the first woman in the world to achieve a "Cab Double Cork 1260", three and a half turns around her own axis and twice overhead. At the end of August 2019 she won the gold medal in Big Air on her comeback at the X-Games Norway 2019 in Fornebu .
This was followed by third place in the World Cup in Modena and second in mid-December at the Big Air World Cup in Beijing, behind the Japanese Miyabi Onitsuka . At the Winter X Games in January 2020 she was eighth in Big Air and sixth in Slopestyle. The following month she took second place in slopestyle at the Burton US Open and won the gold medal in Big Air at the following X-Games Norway .

Anna Gasser lives in Millstatt am See .

Sporting successes

World Cup victories

No. date place discipline
1. November 12, 2016 ItalyItaly Milan Big Air
2. November 26, 2016 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Big Air
3. 3rd December 2016 GermanyGermany Mönchengladbach Big Air
4th January 14, 2017 AustriaAustria Kreischberg Slopestyle
5. February 11, 2017 CanadaCanada Quebec Big Air
6th November 11, 2017 ItalyItaly Milan Big Air
7th November 25, 2017 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing Big Air
8th. November 24, 2018 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing Big Air

More victories and podiums

2011/12 season
  • 3rd place - O'Neill Evolution in Davos , Slopestyle
2013/14 season
  • 2nd place - O'Neill Pleasure Jam in Schladming , Slopestyle
  • 3rd place - Snowboard Jamboree and Snowboard World Cup in Stoneham , Slopestyle
2014/15 season
2015/16 season
  • 1st place - Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge , Slopestyle
  • 1st place - Nine Queens in Serfaus , Big Air
  • 2nd place - Pleasure Jam in Schladming , Slopestyle
Season 2016/17
Season 2017/18
Season 2018/19
  • 2nd place - Snowboard World Cup on Kreischberg , Slopestyle
  • 3rd place - Snowboard World Cup in Modena , Big Air
Season 2019/20

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anna Gasser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Gasser: "My family is a source of strength for me". meinviertel.at, March 2, 2017, accessed on February 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Anna Gasser. (No longer available online.) In: blue-tomato.com. January 14, 2013, archived from the original on April 27, 2016 ; Retrieved April 27, 2016 . 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.blue-tomato.com
  3. ↑ Olympic champion Gasser: "Triple jump is a big goal". In: The press. February 23, 2018, accessed February 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Anna Gasser Cab Double Cork 900 , November 2013, YouTube video on the FIS Snowboarding channel
  5. ↑ Portrait of Anna Gasser on sport.orf.at ( memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / sport.orf.at
  6. ↑ Alexander Logar: "Slopestyle: Gold for the USA, Anna Gasser throws away the nerves" In: Format from February 9, 2014
  7. ↑ Gasser celebrated his first World Cup victory at Big Air debut in Milan. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online. November 12, 2016, accessed March 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Aspen 2017 Women's Snowboard Big Air. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Gasser wins US Open on Kurier.at. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Gasser lives up to its role as a favorite (March 17, 2017)
  11. ↑ «Gasser refrains from starting», «Kleine Zeitung Kärnten», from March 24, 2017, page 83
  12. ^ The Carinthian athletes at the Olympics (January 22, 2018)
  13. ↑ Anderson succeeds in defending his title. (No longer available online.) ORF , February 12, 2018, archived from the original on February 12, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2018 . 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 / sport.orf.at
  14. ↑ Big Air Gold for Austria (February 22, 2018)
  15. ↑ Anna Gasser jumps phenomenal snowboard stunt work = Die Presse. November 14, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Anna Gasser worries about the start of the World Cup. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Anna Gasser is out for the World Cup. February 1, 2019, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Watch Anna Gasser land a world-first Cab Double Cork 1260 by a female rider. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Snowboarder Gasser crowns her comeback with a victory on diepresse.com (accessed on September 8, 2019)
  20. ↑ Anna Gasser second in the Beijing Big Air Final (December 14, 2019)
  21. ↑ Gasser nominated for the "World Sports Award" (January 16, 2018)
  22. ^ Province of Carinthia: Great reception for Anna Gasser . Article dated March 2, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gasser, Anna Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian snowboarder
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Austria