Daniel Züger
Daniel Züger 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | 15th October 1979 | ||||||
| place of birth | Gallows | ||||||
| size | 178 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 90 kg | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , super-G , giant slalom , slalom |
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| society | SC Klosters | ||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||
| End of career | 2005 | ||||||
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Daniel "Dani" Züger (born October 15, 1979 in Galgenen ) is a former Swiss ski racer . His strongest discipline was downhill . He won a European Cup race and was once among the top 15 in the World Cup .
biography
Züger contested his first FIS races in December 1995, the first start in the European Cup followed on March 1, 1997. At his next European Cup races in January 1999, he was already in the top 20 twice after several top ten places in FIS races Züger took part in the Junior World Championship in Pra-Loup in March 1999 and finished sixth in the downhill and 16th in the Super-G. On January 8, 2000, the Swiss competed in the World Cup for the first time in the Downhill from Chamonix , but he could not finish the race.
In the European Cup, Züger made it to the top in the 2001/02 season . On January 25, 2002, he came in fourth in the downhill from St. Moritz in the top ten for the first time. On February 6th he took the first podium in the downhill from Tarvisio and two days later he celebrated his only victory in the second downhill from Tarvisio. In March, he achieved another podium finish in the downhill from Tignes , taking third place in the downhill classification. In the same winter he also got his first World Cup points when he finished 29th on the downhill from St. Moritz. At the beginning of the 2002/03 World Cup season, Züger came in the points for the second time with rank 28 in the downhill from Lake Louise . In the next races he stayed outside the top 30 until he surprisingly finished 15th on January 11, 2003 in the downhill from Bormio and thus achieved by far his best World Cup result. In the further course of the season he was twice in the top 30.
At the beginning of the 2003/04 season , Züger did not reach any World Cup points. On December 20, 2003, he had a serious fall on the downhill in Val Gardena and suffered injuries to his left arm and both hands. He had to end the season early. In the 2004/05 season, the Swiss took part in seven World Cup races again and was twice just under the fastest 30. In the European Cup, his best result was ninth place in the downhill from Megève . After the season, but he was by the Swiss Ski Association Swiss-Ski dismissed from the squad, after Züger announced his resignation. Since the end of his career, Züger has been working for his former supplier Stöckli . Occasionally he also takes part in ski races, for example he won the Parsenn Derby four times from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 .
successes
World cup
- One place in the top 15, another six times in the top 30
European Cup
- 2001/02 season : 3rd downhill classification
- 2002/03 season : 8th downhill classification
- One victory (departure in Tarvisio on February 8, 2002), another three podium places
Junior World Championships
- Pra-Loup 1999 : 6th downhill, 16th super-G
More Achievements
- 4 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Daniel Züger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Daniel Züger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dani Züger ends career ( memento of the original from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.skiinfo.de, notification from January 8, 2004
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Züger, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Züger, Dani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th October 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gallows |