Christoph Sieber (windsurfer)

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Christoph Sieber

Christoph Sieber (born January 9, 1971 in Wels ) is an Austrian windsurfer .

Life

Christoph Sieber was a student at the Linz Music High School and the Bruckner Conservatory (cello). For the sake of windsurfing, he gave up classical music and switched to the Salzburg school sport model, a high school for competitive athletes.

In 1992 he won the Kiel Week and qualified for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​where he only missed a medal in the last race and was fifth.

As a third at the European Championships in 1994, he was denied participation in the 1996 Games in Atlanta (sailing and surfing in Savannah) because of narrowly not meeting the qualification criteria of the Austrian Olympic Committee .

After intensive mental training, frequent training stays in Sydney and increased fitness training at the Olympic base in Obertauern, he won the gold medal when he took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. On November 3, 2000, he was chosen to be the second Austrian athlete of the year (behind the ski racer Hermann Maier).

After Sydney he mainly devoted himself to kitesurfing and traveling. In 2002 he officially announced his retirement from windsurfing. In 2004 Sieber began to sail together with the crew Clemens Kruse in the Olympic boat class 49er dinghy (Austrian State Champion 2005). He was the first windsurfer who dared to switch to this boat class.

Since mid-2008, the father of a son has been holding motivational lectures and seminars on mental training, performance optimization and burn-out prophylaxis.

Sporting successes

  • Gold medal Olympic Games 2000
  • 3rd place European Championship 1994
  • 5th place Olympic Games 1992
  • 1st place Kiel Week 1992
  • six times Austrian national champion

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. «It's crazy - I get goose bumps»; Kärntner Tageszeitung from November 4, 2000, pages 50 and 51