Dries Van den Broecke
Dries Van den Broecke 
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| birthday | 10th May 1995 (age 25) | ||||||
| place of birth | Ghent , Belgium | ||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | Brussels Ski Team | ||||||
| status | active | ||||||
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| last change: February 12, 2019 | |||||||
Dries Van den Broecke (born May 10, 1995 in Ghent ) is a Belgian ski racer . The three-time Belgian champion starts in all disciplines and took part in the 2017 and 2019 World Ski Championships .
biography
Dries Van den Broecke comes from the Flemish Ghent and starts for the Brussels Ski Team. At the age of 12 he moved to Austria and attended the Stams ski school . He now lives in Plangeross in the Pitztal and has already trained with the Benni Raich Race Center. Van den Broecke speaks four languages, German , English , French and Dutch .
He achieved his first success in 2008 when he won the prestigious Trofeo Topolino . At the age of 15 he took part in the Junior World Championships for the first time in Crans-Montana and started in downhill , super-G and giant slalom . In four other participations (until 2016), a 21st place in the Jasná slalom (2014) was his best result. In 2012 he won the silver medal in slalom at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck .
On December 2, 2012, at the age of 17, Van den Broecke made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom at Beaver Creek , a few weeks later he started in the European Cup for the first time . So far he has not been able to achieve any points in either competition. In 2014 he won the Belgian championship titles in Super-G, giant slalom and slalom in Val Thorens . On February 11, 2017, with third place in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen slalom, he made it onto the podium in an FIS race for the first time .
Van den Broecke caused a surprise in the team competition at the World Championships in St. Moritz . In the first lap of the parallel race, he inflicted the first defeat on the multiple world champion Marcel Hirscher in this discipline and achieved the third-best running time of the competition with 20.82 seconds. The Belgian team was eliminated against the favored Austrians.
successes
World championships
- St. Moritz 2017 : 9th team competition
- Åre 2019 : 9th team competition
Junior World Championships
- Crans-Montana 2011 : 56th giant slalom, 67th Super-G, 82nd descent
- Québec 2013 : 43rd giant slalom
- Jasná 2014 : 21st slalom, 50th descent
- Hafjell 2015 : 42nd giant slalom
- Sochi 2016 : 48th Downhill, 49th Super-G
More Achievements
- Silver at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in slalom
- Belgian champion in Super-G, giant slalom and slalom 2014
- Third at the Austrian Slalom Championships in 2017
- Belgian youth champion in giant slalom 2016
Web links
- Dries Van den Broecke in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Dries Van den Broecke in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Belgian "VDB" thanks to tunnel vision to victory over Hirscher. Courier , February 14, 2017, accessed February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ "Then I beat Marcel every single time". Salzburger Nachrichten , February 15, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Broecke, Dries van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |