Berni Huber

Berni Huber
Full name	Bernhard Huber
nation	Germany
birthday	11th July 1967 (age 53)
place of birth	Obermaiselstein , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G combination
society	Obermaiselstein ski club
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships bronze Jasná 1985 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 40th ( 1990/91 )  Downhill World Cup 13. (1990/91)  Super G World Cup 51st ( 1991/92 )  Combination World Cup 11. ( 1988/89 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 0

Bernhard "Berni" Huber (born July 11, 1967 in Obermaiselstein ) is a former German ski racer . At the beginning of his career he was particularly successful in combination , later in downhill and super-G . He achieved a total of six top ten results in the World Cup .

biography

He made his first appearance on an international level at the Junior World Championships in 1985 in Jasná . There he came in 12th place in the downhill, 24th place in giant slalom and 8th place in slalom, with which he won the bronze medal in the combination. He won his first points in the World Cup in January 1988 in Bad Kleinkirchheim . There he took eleventh place in the combination. The first top ten placement in the World Cup came a year later in the combination of Wengen . He competed in his first World Ski Championships in 1989 in Vail . He was only used in combination there and achieved the best World Cup result of his career with 10th place. He celebrated his greatest World Cup success with his only podium in December 1990 in Val Gardena . He finished the descent on the Saslong in second behind the Swiss Franz Heinzer and ahead of Atle Skårdal from Norway. Shortly afterwards, at the 1991 World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , he came 12th in the downhill. The 40th place in the overall World Cup and the 13th place in the Downhill World Cup of the 1990/91 season were his best placements in these ratings. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Berni Huber finished nineteenth in the downhill race and 31st in the Super-G. In the 1992/93 season, Berni Huber fell out with a torn cruciate ligament. In 1995 he was German downhill champion and in 1996 German super-G champion. Before that he had finished 31st and 34th in Downhill and Super-G at the 1996 World Cup in the Sierra Nevada . A serious fall in the Downhill World Cup on January 11, 1997 in Chamonix ended his career prematurely.

Huber worked as a trainer until 2003, most recently as the European head coach for men in the German Ski Association. Then he was managing director of the Grasgehren ski area . In the 2019/20 season he returned to the German Ski Association as a senior student trainer.

Web links

• Profile Huber on skiinfo.de
• Berni Huber in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Berni Huber in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Berni Huber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Sport-Bild & Audi present the Ski World Cup '93 - Everything about the exciting races from February 3rd to 14th in Morioka (Japan)", Sport-Bild from February 3rd, 1993, p. 31ff, 35
2. ↑ “Skiing is and will remain my life” on snow-online.de ( memento of the original from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ https://www.deutscherskiverband.de/leistungssport_ski-alpin_betreuer_de,354.html