Cristian Javier Simari Birkner
Cristian Javier Simari Birkner 
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 Argentina
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| birthday | 4th October 1980 (age 39) | ||||||
| place of birth | San Carlos de Bariloche , Argentina | ||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| status | active | ||||||
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| last change: February 12, 2019 | |||||||
Cristian Javier Simari Birkner (born October 4, 1980 in San Carlos de Bariloche , Río Negro Province ) is an Argentine ski racer . He is the eldest of the Simari Birkner siblings, while his sisters María Belén , Macarena and Angélica are also alpine skiers.
biography
The Argentine is currently the best skier in South America . Overall, he won the overall ranking of the FIS South America Cup 16 times , ten times in a row between 2004 and 2013. In addition to 65 races, he won a number of discipline classifications. In 2001 Simari Birkner achieved two third places in the slalom in the European Ski Cup , and he also won numerous Argentine championships.
World cup
In the World Cup Cristian Javier Simari Birkner drives since the 1998-99 season . He is almost exclusively in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom as well as in the combination or super combination and only very rarely in the super-G and downhill disciplines . Simari Birkner remained without World Cup points for a long time, among other things because he made a goal error in the penultimate goal of the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora in 2001 (at that time he had qualified for a second round in the technical disciplines for the only time so far) and he secured points in the 2004 Combination of Chamonix forgave because he was disqualified for a non-compliant start. For six years, a 32nd place in the super combined in Val-d'Isère on December 11, 2005 was Simari Birkner's best World Cup result, until he finally achieved 26th place in the super combined in Krasnaya Polyana on February 12, 2012 the first top 30 placement and thus the first points win in the World Cup succeeded.
Major events
Together with his two sisters, Cristian Javier took part in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver . His best Olympic placement is 17th in the slalom in 2002. He has also represented Argentina at eleven Alpine World Ski Championships ( 1997 in Sestriere , 1999 in Vail / Beaver Creek , 2001 in St. Anton , 2003 in St. Moritz , 2005 in Bormio / Santa Caterina , 2007 in Åre , 2009 in Val-d'Isère , 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , 2013 in Schladming , 2015 in Vail / Beaver Creek and 2017 in St. Moritz). 17th place was his best result, which he achieved both in 2003 in the giant slalom in St. Moritz and in 2007 in the slalom in Åre. In 2019 he took part in the East Timorese Alpine Ski Championship .
successes
World championships
- Åre 2019 : 9th team competition
World cup
- 2 placements among the best 30
World Cup ratings
| season | total | combination | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2011/12 | 138. | 5 | 40. | 5 |
| 2012/13 | - | - | - | - |
| 2013/14 | - | - | - | - |
| 2014/15 | - | - | - | - |
| 2015/16 | 157. | 2 | 47. | 2 |
| 2016/17 | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Cristian Javier Simari Birkner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Cristian Javier Simari Birkner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Cristian Javier Simari Birkner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Cristian Javier Simari Birkner (Spanish)
- Portrait of the Simari Birkner siblings in Standard
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Simari Birkner, Cristian Javier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Carlos de Bariloche , Argentina |