David Kreiner

David Kreiner
nation	Austria
birthday	March 8, 1981
place of birth	Kitzbuhel ,  Austria
size	172 cm
Weight	60 kg
job	Regular soldier
Career
society	Kitzbüheler SC
National squad	since 1997
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 5 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2001 Lahti team bronze 2005 Oberstdorf team gold 2011 Oslo Team normal hill gold 2011 Oslo Team large hill  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships bronze 1997 Canmore team bronze 1998 St. Moritz Gundersen bronze 2000 Štrbské Pleso sprint bronze 2000 Štrbské Pleso team gold 2001 Karpacz sprint bronze 2001 Karpacz Gundersen
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 13, 1997 in Steamboat Springs
World Cup victories (individual)	2 (1 of them in the team) ( details )
Overall World Cup	10. ( 2007/08 , 2010/11 )
Sprint World Cup	10th ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 1 1 1  sprint 0 0 2  Team sprint 1 1 0

David Kreiner (born March 8, 1981 in Kitzbühel ) is a former Austrian Nordic combined athlete .

Career

The Tyrolean , who was born in Kitzbühel, began his career in international junior competitions. At the Junior World Championships in Calgary in 1997 , he won the bronze medal with the Austrian team. A year later at the title fights in St. Moritz , he then won bronze in the individual competition. In 2000 in Štrbské Pleso , he then combined the successes of previous years and took third place both in the individual and with the team. At his fourth Junior World Championships in Karpacz in 2001 , he was finally able to win the gold medal in the sprint and defend third place in the Gundersen competition. He was seventh with the Austrian team.

Kreiner achieved his first podium in the senior category in 2001 in Liberec . He was second behind the German Ronny Ackermann . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2001 , he won the silver medal in the relay. The team only had to admit defeat to the Norwegians. In 2005, the Austrian relay also won the bronze medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf . In 2010 he was able to win the gold medal in the team competition at the Olympic Games in Vancouver thanks to a fantastic mileage. On January 22nd, 2011, Kreiner won the World Cup competition in Chaux-Neuve in the finish sprint and won his first World Cup race.

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season , Kreiner contested a few more races in Austria before retiring from the national team.

Kreiner lives in Kitzbühel .

successes

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	country	discipline
1	March 16, 2000	Santa Caterina	Italy	Team mass start
2	January 22, 2011	Chaux-Neuve	France	Single Gundersen

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place	1				1	2
2nd place	1				3	4th
3rd place	1	2				3
Top 10	18th	14th	4th		8th	44
Scoring	73	42	8th		9	132
Starts	86	53	12		9	160
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Awards (excerpt)

• 2001: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• David Kreiner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• David Kreiner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official website