Drago Grubelnik
Drago Grubelnik 
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| birthday | 15th January 1976 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Radlje ob Dravi , Yugoslavia | ||||||||
| size | 181 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg | ||||||||
| date of death | 17th November 2015 | ||||||||
| Place of death | Murnau am Staffelsee , Germany | ||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||||
| society | SK Branik | ||||||||
| End of career | 2007 | ||||||||
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Drago Grubelnik (born January 15, 1976 in Radlje ob Dravi , Yugoslavia , † November 17, 2015 in Murnau am Staffelsee , Germany ) was a Slovenian ski racer . He competed in the World Cup for eleven years and celebrated his greatest successes in the slalom .
biography
Grubelnik took part in the Junior World Championships from 1993 to 1995 and achieved eighth place as the best result in the 1993 slalom. After several victories in FIS races , the Slovenian started in the World Cup from the 1996/97 season . His first World Cup points he took on 8 March 1997 Rank 27 in the giant slalom in Shigakogen , the day after he arrived in the slalom already ranked 19th Constancy still and so he succeeded lacked throughout the following season only a countable result (25 . Place in the Schladming slalom). He also failed in the second slalom run at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In March 1998 he became Slovenian champion in combination and runner-up in slalom.
Grubelnik's breakthrough came in the 1998/99 season . On November 28th, he finished eighth in the Aspen slalom , and two weeks later he finished tenth in Sestriere . With two other top ten results (seventh in Kitzbühel and tenth in Ofterschwang ) he finished 17th in the Slalom World Cup. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek he was 21st in the giant slalom, in his stronger discipline, the slalom, he dropped out in the first round. The Slovenian also celebrated his only victory in the European Cup this season .
In the 1999/2000 season reached Grubelnik his best World Cup result in the slalom in Wengen on January 16, he was behind the two Norwegians Aamodt and Furuseth surprising third. But he also had to accept a lot of failures this winter and so his second-best result of the season was only 19th place in the slalom of Kranjska Gora . After a rather weak 2000/01 season , Grubelnik, who now almost only started in slalom races, was among the top ten three times in the winter of 2001/02 and achieved his best result in 14th place in the Slalom World Cup. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he fell out of the second slalom run, like four years earlier.
In the 2002/03 season his best result was tenth place in Schladming, and at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , he was the best Slovene in slalom, 18th place. The 2003/04 season was initially marked by many failures, but on February 8, 2004 he achieved his second-best World Cup result in the Adelboden slalom with fifth place. Three weeks later he finished sixth in Kranjska Gora .
In his further career, Grubelnik did not achieve any more top ten results. In 2004/05 he only crossed the finish line twice, and 19th place in Sestriere was his best result of the season. In the 2005/06 season he managed only one result due to numerous failures. With 12th place in Kranjska Gora, however, he showed that he could still achieve good results if he got through in both races. He confirmed this at the 2006 Winter Olympics , where he was the best Slovene with 13th place in slalom and also achieved his personal best at major events. In the 2006/07 season , however, Grubelnik did not finish in a single competition and on March 4, 2007 he drove his last World Cup race. In total, Grubelnik started in 87 slaloms and 21 giant slaloms in the World Cup, but only reached the finish line in 36 races due to his risky driving style.
After his resignation, Grubelnik worked as a trainer, most recently as head coach of the Bulgarian Ski Association. On November 17, 2015, he was driving his car between Sölden and the Rettenbachferner when the car came off the lane and fell down a slope. Grubelnik could still be flown by rescue workers to the hospital in Murnau, where he died on the same day. His two Bulgarian riders, ski racer Albert Popow and assistant coach Dimitar Hristow, suffered injuries.
successes
winter Olympics
- Turin 2006 : 13th slalom
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 21st giant slalom
- St. Moritz 2003 : 18th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Monte Campione / Colere 1993 : 8th slalom, 27th giant slalom
- Lake Placid 1994 : 10th Super-G
- Voss 1995 : 13th slalom, 13th giant slalom
World cup
- A podium, another ten times in the top ten
More Achievements
- Slovenian combined champion in 1998
- 1 victory in the European Cup (slalom in Adelboden on January 15, 1999)
- 13 victories in FIS races (from 1994/95)
Web links
- Drago Grubelnik in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Drago Grubelnik in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Drago Grubelnik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Driver died after a vehicle crash. ORF Tirol , November 17, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Former Olympic skier Grubelnik dies in car crash. Reuters , November 18, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grubelnik, Drago |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th January 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Radlje ob Dravi , Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 2015 |
| Place of death | Murnau am Staffelsee , Germany |