Christopher Hörl

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Christopher Hörl Alpine skiing
Christopher Hörl (2017)
Downhill training in Bormio in December 2017
nation AustriaAustria Austria (until 2015) Moldova (since 2017)
Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova 
birthday 30th August 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Zell am See , Austria
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society SK Saalfelden
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 16, 2017
last change: February 15, 2020

Christopher Hörl (born August 30, 1989 in Zell am See ) is a ski racer from Austria who competes for the Republic of Moldova in the downhill , Super G and Alpine Combined disciplines .

biography

Christopher Hörl grew up in Saalfelden and went skiing for the first time at the age of two. After completing secondary school in his hometown, he could have opted for a ski-specific school, but he wanted to become a ski professional and engineer and therefore attended the HTL for structural engineering in Saalfelden. Because he could only train before and after school, the Salzburg Ski Association split from Hörl. He graduated from the HTL in 2009 and has been a seasonal employee in an architectural office in Saalfelden since then. In 2012 he won the Man of Steel fitness competition.

At the age of 20, on December 3, 2009, Hörl contested his first international race (49th place) in the FIS slalom in Obergurgl. His first appearance in the European Cup followed on January 26, 2012 in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee (88th place). In the 2012/2013 season, Hörl competed nine times in the European Cup in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines and made it into the top ten six times in FIS races. His first victory in an FIS race was the Super-G in Otaki in Japan on April 6, 2013, and he won the first CIT races on February 27 and March 1, 2014 in the Super-G and Downhill disciplines in Innerkrems. In the 2013/2014 season he finished second and fifth in the two downhill runs from Madonna di Campiglio on December 21 and 22 in the European Cup.

The 2014/2015 season was decisive for the speed specialist. From a sporting point of view, the second and third place in the FIS Super G and the FIS Downhill on January 28 and 29, 2015 in South Tyrol's Sarntal Valley, respectively, stand out, but on March 3, 2015, Hörl fell at the Slovenian championships in Krvavec. One of the first to arrive on the slopes of the accident victim was Hans Frick, a native of Fieberbrunn and at the same time Director of the Ski Association of Moldova. He gave Hörl the idea to change the nation in order to start for Moldova in the future.

Due to the change of nationality, Hörl was banned for two years according to the FIS regulations and only returned to the ski circuit in the 2017/2018 season. On December 15, 2017, he was at the start of a World Cup downhill run in Val Gardena for the first time and one day later he also reached the finish line there in the Super-G for the first time as 68. Hörl's first victories for Moldova were in January 2018: On the 15th he won the FIS downhill in Spindleruv Mlyn in the Czech Republic, on the 16th and 18th he had two victories in the Czech championship - first in the downhill, then in the Super-G. Thanks to his FIS points, he also qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where he was 40th in the downhill.

Under the Moldovan flag, Hörl is pursuing a three-year plan and would like to approach the top 30 in downhill and super-G in the 2018/2019 World Cup season.

Christopher Hörl lives in Saalfelden. Parallel to his career as a ski racer, Hörl passed the Salzburg state ski instructor exam in 2011, and in the following year he obtained the C license as a state ski trainer.

successes

Olympic games

More Achievements

  • 1 podium in the European Cup
  • Victory at the Czech championships in Downhill and Super-G 2018
  • 5 victories in FIS races
  • 3 wins in Citizen races
  • Salzburg state champion in giant slalom 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It doesn't matter which country you're skiing for In Skiing Penguin. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ The 1st “MAN OF STEEL” has found the perfect athlete! In MAN OF STEEL.
  3. ↑ Christopher Hörl on an exotic ski mission in Salzburg Nachrichten. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ex-ÖSV ski racer Hörl wins for Moldova In Salzburg ORF. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Austrian Christopher Hörl fulfills his Olympic dream in Ski World Cup TV.
personal data
SURNAME Hörl, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell am See