Dale Begg-Smith

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Dale Begg-Smith Freestyle skiing
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday January 18, 1985
place of birth Vancouver ,  CanadaCanadaCanada 
Career
discipline Moguls
status resigned
End of career 2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2006 Turin Moguls
silver 2010 Vancouver Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
bronze 2005 Ruka Moguls
gold 2007 Madonna di Campiglio Dual moguls
silver 2007 Madonna di Campiglio Moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 12, 2001
 World Cup victories 18th
 Overall World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Mughal World Cup 1. (2005/06, 2006/07,
2007/08, 2009/10)
 Dual Moguls World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 16 7th 3
 Dual moguls 2 1 0
 

Dale Begg-Smith (* 18th January 1985 in Vancouver , Canada ) is a former Australian freestyle skis , of the moguls who specialized disciplines, contained (moguls). With an Olympic victory, world championship title and overall world cup victory, the Canadian-Australian dual citizen is one of the world's best athletes. He is not only successful as an athlete, but also as an internet entrepreneur. His four year older brother Jason Begg-Smith also drove for Australia in the same disciplines.

biography

Begg-Smith was a member of the Canadian freestyle junior squad and made his debut in the 2000/01 season in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup . On January 28, 2001, he took 18th place in the Sunday River World Cup for the first time. When the coaching staff complained that he was spending too much time on his recently launched businesses and neglecting to train, he left the Canadian Federation at the age of 16 and moved to Australia with his brother . This country was chosen because the local ski association was smaller and therefore more flexible. The brothers accepted a two-year ban in order to be able to start again in the World Cup from the 2003/04 season after obtaining Australian citizenship.

On December 20, 2003, Begg-Smith advanced to the top ten in a World Cup competition for the first time, followed by three podium places in the 2004/05 World Cup season. At the 2005 World Championships in Ruka , he won the bronze medal. On December 18, 2005, he won a World Cup competition for the first time in Oberstdorf . In the 2005/06 season, three more victories followed, with which he decided the World Cup discipline ranking for himself. His greatest success so far was at the 2006 Winter Olympics , when he lived up to his role as a favorite and won the gold medal. On February 21, 2006, just six days after winning the Olympics, the Australian Post issued a stamp in honor of his achievement.

Begg-Smith continued his winning streak in the 2006/07 season. He won five out of ten World Cup competitions and thus not only decided the Moguls discipline ranking for himself, but also the overall World Cup and the unique Dual Moguls discipline ranking. Also at the 2007 World Cup in Madonna di Campiglio was one of the best; he finished first in the Dual Moguls discipline and second in the Moguls discipline. Three more World Cup victories followed in the 2007/08 season and, for the third time in a row, he won the Moguls discipline.

Begg-Smith's best result in winter 2008/09 was only a fifth place. He also had to end the season prematurely due to an injury. He made a successful comeback in the 2009/10 season. He won three World Cup competitions and won the discipline ranking for the fourth time. Before the 2010 Winter Olympics , he was one of the most popular favorites to win, but he had to admit defeat to Canadian Alexandre Bilodeau in Cypress Mountain near Vancouver and be satisfied with the silver medal.

After more than three years of absence from the World Cup, Begg-Smith started at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He did not get past 15th place in the qualification and then announced his resignation.

controversy

Begg-Smith has been linked on various occasions to the proliferation of software that users consider undesirable. Several newspapers reported that numerous digital traces indicate that his companies AdsCPM and CPM Media had distributed malware , spyware , adware and spam . His manager at IMG described reports of this kind about his client as "exaggerated". However, after the Olympic victory in 2006, the domain registrations of his company's websites were changed and references to him were removed. In addition, individual websites that were still online before the Olympic media hype were deleted. Begg-Smith didn't answer questions about his companies in the media. He called reports of his multimillion dollar fortune rumors and said he had put his business on hold in favor of the sport.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

Begg-Smith achieved 29 podiums, including 18 wins:

date place country discipline
December 18, 2005 Oberstdorf Germany Moguls
January 20, 2006 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 22, 2006 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 28, 2006 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Moguls
March 1, 2006 Jisan South Korea Moguls
March 18, 2006 apex Canada Moguls
January 6, 2007 Mont Gabriel Canada Moguls
February 6, 2007 La Plagne France Dual moguls
February 18, 2007 Inawashiro Japan Dual moguls
February 24, 2007 apex Canada Moguls
March 2, 2007 Voss Norway Moguls
March 3, 2007 Voss Norway Moguls
January 20, 2008 Lake Placid United States Moguls
February 15, 2008 Inawashiro Japan Moguls
March 7, 2008 Are Sweden Moguls
January 8, 2010 Calgary Canada Moguls
January 9, 2010 Calgary Canada Moguls
January 14, 2010 Deer Valley United States Moguls

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time to say good-bye: Freestyle Skiing retirements ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. April 30, 2014. Archived from the original on September 2, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 5, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fis-ski.com
  2. ↑ Dale stamps gold success. Sydney Morning Herald , February 21, 2006, accessed February 2, 2010 .
  3. ^ Mogul skier Dale Begg-Smith resigns. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 10, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b The ski dream funded by a spam fortune. The Age , February 14, 2006, accessed February 2, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Spyware cyber signs point to Begg-Smith. Sydney Morning Herald, March 4, 2006, accessed February 2, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Begg-Smith, Dale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , Canada