Christina Ackermann

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Christina Ackermann Alpine skiing
Christina Ackermann
Christina Ackermann in February 2019
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 6th February 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Oberstdorf , Germany
size 170 cm
Weight 67 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society SC 1906 Oberstdorf
status resigned
End of career March 15, 2020
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Mont-Blanc 2010 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 29, 2008
 Overall World Cup 30. ( 2018/19 )
 Slalom World Cup 8. (2018/19)
 Parallel world cup 23. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 0 1
 Parallel races 0 1 0
 team 0 2 1
 

Christina Ackermann (* 6. February 1990 in Oberstdorf as Christina Geiger ) is a former German alpine skier . She belonged to the A-squad of the German Ski Association and specialized in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .

biography

Ackermann competed in her first FIS races in December 2005 and four months later she was among the top ten for the first time. In the European Cup , she drove her first two races in February 2007 and started regularly from the 2007/08 season . In 2008 she started at the Junior World Championship in Spanish Formigal , where she achieved 7th place in slalom as the best result. The German achieved her first podium in the European Cup in the first slalom of the 2008/09 season on November 23rd in Funäsdalen and celebrated her first victory a few weeks later in Schruns .

After these successes, Ackermann was allowed to compete in the Slalom in Semmering for the first time in the World Cup on December 29, 2008 , but did not qualify for the second round. But just a week later she reached 15th place in her second World Cup race, the Zagreb Slalom . In the following season 2009/10 she drove in the slalom of Aspen in eighth place, which meant her best World Cup result to date. She was able to repeat this result on December 29, 2009 at the slalom in Lienz . At the 2010 Junior World Championships , she won the gold medal in slalom in Chamonix . Thanks to the results in the Ski World Cup, she qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and in an internal elimination in Canada together with Fanny Chmelar for the Olympic slalom on February 27, 2010 against Katharina Dürr , who only acted as a substitute skier. In this competition, she took 14th place.

On December 29, 2010, Ackermann finished third in the Semmering slalom and thus achieved her first podium finish in a World Cup race. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was disqualified in the first slalom run after a goal error. As in the 2010/11 season , Ackermann was among the top ten in two World Cup slaloms in the 2011/12 winter, just missing out on another podium finish as fourth in Lienz.

After a few weaker years, in which Ackermann was also injured, she was able to catch up with the world's best in the winter of 2016/17 and finished the season 14th in the slalom classification. She also took part in the 2017 World Cup in St. Moritz , but was eliminated there in the first round. At the City Event in Stockholm in January 2018, she took 5th place. In preparation for the 2018 Olympic Games , she finished 7th in the slalom in Kranjska Gora . At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , Ackermann pulled out in the second run after a stab in his ankle and gave up. The 2018/19 season started promisingly with a 5th place in Zagreb and a 6th place in Flachau. The season finally culminated in the City Event of Stockholm, where she only had to admit defeat to the dominator of winter, Mikaela Shiffrin , and could thus celebrate her second podium in a World Cup individual race.

In the following season 2019/20 she was able to achieve top 10 results. In the Killington slalom , she only just missed the podium in 4th place. After the end of the season, she announced her retirement from alpine ski racing on March 15, 2020 via Instagram .

Private

Christina Ackermann comes from a sporty family, her father, Jürgen Geiger, played ice hockey himself at SC Oberstdorf. Her younger brother Andi Geiger was a ski jumper before he switched to football. However , she is not related to the German ski jumper Karl Geiger , who is also a member of SC Oberstdorf, and the Nordic combined skier Vinzenz Geiger . In addition to ski racing, she plays volleyball, enjoys cycling and is a keen water skier. She is a sports soldier.

In 2017, Ackermann was photographed for the March issue of the men's magazine Playboy . She married in May 2019 and has since started under her new name Ackermann. In July 2020, she announced her pregnancy.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 6 placements among the top five in individual races, including 2 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total slalom Parallel
space Points space Points space Points
2008/09 98 25th 37. 10 - -
2009/10 39. 187 10. 187 - -
2010/11 50. 125 17th 125 - -
2011/12 44. 167 16. 167 - -
2012/13 53. 127 20th 127 - -
2013/14 57. 98 20th 98 - -
2014/15 83. 31 35. 31 - -
2015/16 65. 95 21st 95 - -
2016/17 48. 158 14th 158 - -
2017/18 44. 180 16. 180 - -
2018/19 30th 277 8th. 277 - -
2019/20 42. 149 9. 129 23. 20th

Junior World Championships

European Cup

date place country discipline
December 17, 2008 Schruns Austria slalom
January 27, 2010 Gressoney Italy slalom
January 18, 2011 Tarvisio Italy slalom
March 2, 2011 Jasná Slovakia slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Christina Ackermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Südkurier: Bitter Olympia - Dürr without a start  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.suedkurier.de  
  2. ↑ Winter Games: Early Olympic exit for Christina Geiger. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Johannes Knuth Flachau: The discovery of the cheeky line . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 9, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 10, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Slalom runner Christina Ackermann ends her career. Sportschau, March 15, 2019, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christina Geiger private : [1]
  6. ↑ Slalom runner shows her curves before the start of the World Cup : [2]
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstdorf , Germany