Christoph Alster

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Christoph Alster Alpine skiing
Christoph Alster in March 2009
Christoph Alster in March 2009
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 19th February 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Egg (Vorarlberg)
size 182 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Super-G , downhill ,
giant slalom , combination
society SC Egg
status resigned
End of career May 2009
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Pra-Loup 1999 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 7, 2001
 Overall World Cup 126th ( 2008/09 )
 Super G World Cup 43rd ( 2007/08 , 2008/09)
 

Christoph Alster (born February 19, 1980 in Egg (Vorarlberg) ) is a former Austrian ski racer and ski crosser . He became Junior World Champion in giant slalom in 1999 and won two Austrian championship titles . In the European Cup he celebrated several victories in Super-G and Downhill , but he was never able to establish himself in the Ski World Cup . After retiring from alpine ski racing, he switched to ski cross in winter 2009/10, but ended his career for good after an injury in 2010.

biography

Christoph Alster got into skiing at an early age through his father Günther , who was also a ski racer in the 1970s. In 1993 he became Austrian school champion in slalom and combined and drove his first FIS races in December 1995 . In 1997 he was Austrian junior champion in combination in his age group and thus made it into the ÖSV squad. The Vorarlberg resident drove the first races in the European Cup in January 1998, but initially only made a few appearances and was unable to finish any of these races. Alster celebrated his first major success at the Junior World Championships in Pra-Loup by winning the gold medal in the giant slalom. A year later , his best result was fifth in the giant slalom.

From the 1999/2000 season Alster started regularly in the European Cup. On February 14, 2001, he went on the podium for the first time in the giant slalom in Ravascletto and achieved third place in the Super-G classification with several top five results in the 2000/01 season . On April 4, 2001 he was Austrian champion in giant slalom.

World Cup debut 2001

After his successes last year, he made his first four World Cup appearances in the 2001/02 season , but only made it into the points in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 26, 2002 with rank 27. For the time being, these were his only World Cup starts. In the European Cup he came six times in the top five this season , which meant sixth place in the Super-G classification and seventh place overall.

The results of the 2002/03 European Cup season were quite disappointing for Alster, he only made it into the top ten twice. The 2003/04 season went a little better , in which he managed at least fourth place in the Super-G of Les Orres and he finished seventh in the Super-G classification with two further top ten placements. He achieved similar results in the 2004/05 season and ended up in 8th place in the Super G classification.

In the 2005/06 European Cup season , Alster's results improved significantly and he celebrated his first two victories in the downhill and Super-G in Sella Nevea in January . Another followed at the end of the season in the Super-G in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . With that he reached the second place in the Super-G-classification and got a place in this discipline for the next winter in the World Cup. But there were no good results and he only got into the points once, in the Super-G of Val Gardena on December 15, 2006. In the European Cup, however, he celebrated two more Super-G victories in the 2006/07 season and thus again took second place in the discipline ranking. In the overall standings, he came in seventh with a total of eight top ten places. He also showed his good form in Super-G at the Austrian Championships in 2007, where he won his second national title.

In the 2007/08 World Cup season , Alster did not achieve the good performance that he showed in the European Cup, which means that a 27th place in the Super-G at Beaver Creek was his best result. He finished the 2007/08 European Cup season with two victories in Les Orres , which meant he secured second place in the downhill and third place in the Super-G at the season finale, and thus got another chance to gain a foothold in the World Cup grasp. With three more podium places, he also reached fourth overall EC position.

During the 2008/09 season , Alster competed in eight World Cup races, but only once again reached the points. The 21st place in the Super-G on the Streif in Kitzbühel on January 23, 2009 is also his best World Cup result. Because he did not achieve good results in the European Cup this winter and therefore not as fixed for the World Cup as in previous years qualified, he lost the ÖSV squad membership after the season and announced his retirement from active ski racing shortly afterwards.

Freestyle skiing since 2009

A little later, Alster switched to freestyle skiing . In the 2009/10 season he was a member of the A-squad of the Austrian ski cross team, but remained unsuccessful. In the first two races of the season in Innichen , he failed to qualify for the round of 16 and was only 59 in each case.

On January 5th, 2010, the 29-year-old had a serious fall while qualifying for the ski cross race in St. Johann in Tirol and pulled out the large protruding bone in his upper arm. After the forced break due to injury, he did not take part in any more competitions and finally ended his sporting career.

successes

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 5 placements among the best 30

European Cup

date place country discipline
January 19, 2006 Sella Nevea Italy Departure
January 20, 2006 Sella Nevea Italy Super G
March 15, 2006 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Super G
February 1, 2007 Tignes France Super G
February 14, 2007 Sella Nevea Italy Super G
March 14, 2008 Les Orres France Departure
March 15, 2008 Les Orres France Super G

More Achievements

literature

Web links

Commons : Christoph Alster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Skier Alster ends his career. sport.orf.at, May 8, 2009
  2. ↑ Under the auspices of the Austrian Ski Federation, everything became more professional for the Olympics. vol.at, December 17, 2009
  3. ↑ Two ÖSV drivers injured in World Cup qualification. Kleine Zeitung, January 5, 2010
  4. ↑ ÖSV adopted Innauer, Maier, Götschl, Gruber and Co. Tiroler Tageszeitung, June 27, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Alster, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Egg (Vorarlberg) , Austria