Bernhard Flaschberger (ski racer)

Bernhard Flaschberger
nation	Austria
birthday	27th February 1960 (age 60)
place of birth	Weißbriach , Austria
Career
discipline	Departure
society	SV Weißbriach
status	resigned
End of career	1987
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 61st ( 1982/83 )  Downhill World Cup 25. ( 1981/82 , 1982/83)

Bernhard Flaschberger (born February 27, 1960 in Weißbriach ) is a former Austrian ski racer . The downhill specialist drove six times under the fastest 15 in the World Cup and won the downhill classification in the European Cup in the 1980/81 season . His brother Christian , 23 years his junior, was also a ski racer.

biography

After his first victories at FIS races , Flaschberger was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association in 1979 and made his first European Cup appearances in the winter of 1979/80 . In the 1980/81 season , with a second and two third places, he won the downhill classification two points ahead of the Swiss Gustav Oehrli .

On December 13, 1981 Flaschberger scored for the first time in the World Cup when he surprisingly reached sixth place in the downhill run from Val Gardena . In the next races he did not get into the points and so he had to start again more often in the European Cup, where he remained without a podium this year. In the 1982/83 season Flaschberger again achieved some good results in the World Cup. In December he finished twelfth and eleventh place in the two downhill runs from Val Gardena and on January 9, 1983, in the first downhill run from Val-d'Isère - after the best time in training - he finished 13th. Two weeks later he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in downhill training in Sarajevo , which is why he had to end the season early. In the 1983/84 season he finished twelfth in Laax and 14th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, once again two times in the World Cup points. During the following two years, however, he remained without points and on December 15, 1986 he suffered another cruciate ligament tear in his left knee during downhill training in Val Gardena, which is why he finally had to end his career. He has been running the ski and snowboard school in Weißbriach since 2000.

successes

World cup

• Six placements among the top 15, including one among the top ten

European Cup

• 1980/81 season : 1st downhill classification
• Three podium places

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 79-80.

Web links

• Bernhard Flaschberger (ski racer) in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Bernhard Flaschberger (ski racer) in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official website of the ski school , accessed on July 23, 2015