Elisabeth Görgl

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Elisabeth Görgl Alpine skiing
Elisabeth Görgl (2014)
Elisabeth Görgl before the 2014 Winter Olympics
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 20th February 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Bruck an der Mur , Austria
size 166 cm
Weight 68 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Kapfenberg Sports Association
status resigned
End of career June 12, 2017
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Vancouver 2010 Departure
bronze Vancouver 2010 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Val d'Isère 2009 Super combination
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Departure
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Pra-Loup 1999 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 10, 2000
 Individual world cup victories 7th
 Overall World Cup 4. ( 2007/08 , 2010/11 )
 Downhill World Cup 3rd ( 2011/12 )
 Super G World Cup 2. (2007/08, 2009/10 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (2007/08)
 Slalom World Cup 5th ( 2003/04 )
 Combination World Cup 4. (2009/10, 2010/11 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 6th 6th
 Super G 3 3 0
 Giant slalom 2 3 10
 slalom 0 3 0
 combination 0 1 2
 Parallel races 0 0 1
 team 0 1 2
 

Elisabeth "Lizz" Görgl (born February 20, 1981 in Bruck an der Mur , Styria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . Since her resignation in June 2017, she has been working as a singer .

As an all-rounder, she was able to celebrate podium places in all World Cup disciplines . Her greatest success was the double world championship title in 2011 in the Super-G and in the downhill . She is the daughter of Traudl Hecher and the younger sister of Stephan Görgl .

biography

Görgl grew up in Parschlug and graduated from the ski school in Stams . In 1994 she won the slalom and the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup and in 1994 and 1996 the slalom at the Trofeo Topolino . From November 1996 she took part in FIS races , but a month later she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture . After she was able to contest a few races again at the beginning of the winter of 1997/98, a second cruciate ligament tear followed in January 1998, which again led to an early termination of the season. After Görgl won an FIS race for the first time in December 1998, it was used in the European Cup from January 1999 . At the 1999 Junior World Championships in Pra-Loup , she won the bronze medal in slalom.

On March 10, 2000, Görgl made her debut in the World Cup in the Sestriere slalom , but with 31st place missed the "cut" for the second run by just one place. In winter 2000/01 she got three podium places in European Cup races, but a third cruciate ligament tear in February 2001 threw her back again. After a break of several months, she established herself again in the top ranks of the European Cup in winter 2001/02. With nine wins in four different disciplines, Görgl clearly won the overall ranking of the European Cup in the 2002/03 season , as did the slalom and giant slalom rankings. She took her first World Cup points on December 12th, 2002 when she was 13th in the Val-d'Isère slalom . Three weeks later, on January 5th, 2003, she achieved her first podium finish in a World Cup race with second place in the Bormio slalom . This earned her qualification for the 2003 Alpine World Championships , where she was eliminated.

In the 2003/04 World Cup season , Görgl achieved four more podium places, twice second in slalom and twice third in giant slalom. In order to develop her further into an all-rounder, her trainers are also increasingly using her in downhill runs and super-G races. This strategy started to pay off when it first achieved a top 10 placement in a Super-G in January 2005. While she was able to maintain her level with another podium in the giant slalom, the diversification brought a deterioration in the performance in the slalom. In the 2005/06 season , Görgl came third in two downhill runs and a giant slalom. The 2006 Winter Olympics were rather disappointing with the failure in the downhill.

Although Görgl drove out another podium finish in the 2006/07 World Cup season , otherwise she was mostly classified in the midfield. At the 2007 World Cup , she did not get past 18th place in the downhill. In contrast, Görgl achieved a significant increase in performance in the 2007/08 season , with victories in the giant slalom in Maribor on January 12, 2008 and in Bormio on March 15, 2008. There were also five further podium places. In the disciplines of Super-G and Giant Slalom, she took second place and fourth place in the overall World Cup.

Three bronze medals in two seasons

With three podium places, Görgl was initially only able to maintain the level of the pre-winter season in the giant slalom in the 2008/09 World Cup season . At the 2009 World Championships , she unexpectedly won the bronze medal in the super combined , and narrowly missed another medal in the downhill. On December 6, 2009, Görgl won a World Cup Super G in Lake Louise for the first time , and two more podium places were added during the 2009/10 season . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver she won bronze twice, in the downhill and in the giant slalom - 50 years after her mother Traudl Hecher , who won the first of her two Olympic downhill bronze medals in 1960 at the age of 16.

Double gold in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Görgl achieved three podium finishes in the World Cup and thus belonged to the extended circle of favorites for the 2011 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . After singing the official World Cup song You're the Hero there at the opening ceremony , she won the gold medal in the Super-G the following day. In the super combination, she finished 5th overall after the fastest time in the downhill. She also won the special run with almost half a second ahead of Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch , the two dominators of the previous 15 runs. With this, Görgl won her second gold medal within just a few days. In the giant slalom she finally finished 10th after the third-best run in the first round. After the World Cup, she made it to third podium three times in the World Cup and fought in the World Cup final with the Slovenian giant slalom world champion Tina Maze and the US Super-G runner-up world champion Julia Mancuso for third place in the overall World Cup standings - far Trailed behind the two leading leaders Riesch and Vonn. Tina Maze decided this three-way battle for third place with her victory in the final slalom, Görgl was fourth and Mancuso fifth.

On January 7, 2012, Görgl won her first World Cup run in Bad Kleinkirchheim . With two more podium places in this discipline, she was third in the Downhill World Cup at the end of the 2011/12 season . She awarded a possible giant slalom victory on February 21, 2012 in Kranjska Gora , when she slipped away in the second run after taking the lead in the first run.

Two years later, on January 11, 2014, she also won the World Cup downhill run in Zauchensee , which was the first victory of an Austrian downhill skier since her victory in Bad Kleinkirchheim. At the same time she was the oldest ever winner of a World Cup downhill run: at 32 years and 325 days, she replaced the previous record holder Michaela Dorfmeister (32 years 302 days on January 21, 2006 in St. Moritz ). As the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill, she was replaced on January 20, 2018 by Lindsey Vonn, who was 33 years and 94 days old when she won the 79th World Cup downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

In the 2014/15 World Cup winter , Görgl celebrated the last World Cup victory of her career in the Super-G in Val-d'Isère on December 21 (she had already finished 2nd in the downhill at the same location the day before), with which she was 33 years old and 304 days became the oldest female World Cup winner and at that time also replaced Michaela Dorfmeister , who was 32 years and 344 days old on March 3, 2006 in the Super G victory in Hafjell .

At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek, she finished sixth in the downhill. In the 2015/16 season she made it into the top ten six times in the speed races; the best result was a fourth place in the downhill from St. Moritz. In her last winter of 2016/17 , Görgl's performance collapsed completely. Only in the Super-G did she finish in the top ten twice. Otherwise, she had to accept numerous failures and placements in the lower midfield. As a result, it was not taken into account for the 2017 World Cup in St. Moritz .
Nevertheless, Görgl surprised again towards the end of the season with a 7th place in Crans-Montana, which gave her the ticket to the World Cup final in Aspen. There she celebrated her best season position with a 5th place in the Super-G.

End of career and career as a singer

On June 12, 2017, Görgl announced the end of her career and at the same time presented her self-composed song "It's Up to You".

Görgl has been a singer since the end of her career as a ski racer. After “It's up to you”, the song “Bleib short stehn” was released in 2018. In 2018 she took part in Das Supertalent , where she appeared as a singer. At the auditions, she was the only juror to receive the green button from Sylvie Meis and was then eliminated.

From March 15, 2019 she danced as a candidate in the twelfth season of the ORF dance show Dancing Stars and won on May 10. Her dance partner was Thomas Kraml.

successes

Elisabeth Görgl in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee (2011)

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010 : 3rd downhill, 3rd giant slalom, 5th super-G, 7th slalom, 18th super combination
  • Sochi 2014 : 11th giant slalom, 16th descent

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination CityEvent
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2002/03 41. 178 - - - - 27. 66 18th 112 - - - -
2003/04 10. 654 - - 38. 22nd 4th 293 5. 339 - - - -
2004/05 12. 511 34. 26th 12. 137 10. 225 22nd 99 11. 24 - -
2005/06 10. 602 8th. 227 11. 172 16. 155 36. 19th 15th 29 - -
2006/07 11. 568 14th 184 23. 96 11. 171 35. 39 8th. 78 - -
2007/08 4th 1137 11. 215 2. 326 2. 479 42. 22nd 8th. 95 - -
2008/09 8th. 755 10. 176 14th 133 4th 333 - - 5. 113 - -
2009/10 6th 591 26th 65 2. 300 20th 67 29 49 4th 110 - -
2010/11 4th 992 4th 333 9 137 4th 236 33. 41 4th 185 3. 60
2011/12 6th 987 3. 384 9. 205 7th 333 - - 10. 50 9. 15th
2012/13 19th 381 24. 84 14th 101 15th 160 - - 13. 36 - -
2012/13 8th. 640 7th 334 4th 240 31. 42 - - 11. 24 - -
2014/15 8th. 638 4th 337 7th 214 25th 69 - - 14th 18th - -
2015/16 28. 363 13. 209 14th 154 - - - - - - - -
2016/17 54. 145 39. 29 16. 116 - - - - - - - -

World Cup victories

  • 42 podium places in individual races, including 7 wins:
date place country discipline
January 12, 2008 Maribor Slovenia Giant slalom
March 15, 2008 Bormio Italy Giant slalom
December 6, 2009 Lake Louise Canada Super G
January 7, 2012 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria Departure
January 11, 2014 Zauchensee Austria Departure
January 23, 2014 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Super G
December 21, 2014 Val d'Isère France Super G

European Cup

  • 2002/03 season : 1st overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 1st slalom ranking
  • 19 podium places, including 9 wins:
date place country discipline
November 25, 2002 Are Sweden slalom
November 26, 2002 Are Sweden slalom
January 23, 2003 Abetone Italy Giant slalom
February 3, 2003 Pas de la Casa Andorra slalom
February 6, 2003 La Molina Spain Giant slalom
February 24, 2003 Innerkrems Austria Departure
February 26, 2003 Innerkrems Austria Super G
March 10, 2003 Piancavallo Italy Giant slalom
March 11, 2003 Piancavallo Italy slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Görgl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As a singer: Lizz Görgl in a new role . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on July 16, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Portrait - Elisabeth Görgl. skiinfo.de, August 23, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Görgl is the "Hero" - Riesch starts with bronze. Kicker , February 8, 2011, accessed February 8, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Goergl stuns Vonn and Riesch again. Reuters , February 13, 2011, accessed February 13, 2011 .
  5. ↑ No envy with the dethroned speed duo. ORF.at , February 14, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2011 .
  6. ^ Elisabeth Görgl in her umpteenth spring. sportnet.at, December 22, 2014, accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Chris Harras: Lizz Görgl - It's up to you. August 4, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Lizz Görgl: Lizz Goergl | STAY SHORT | Music video. July 12, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Upper Austrian news: Lizz Görgl wants to impress the "Supertalent" jury. December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Courier: Ex-Ski-Queen Lizz Görgl participates in the "Super Talent". December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  11. ↑ tv.orf.at: Dancing Stars 2019 , accessed on March 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ Görgl honored by the French sports academy. sport.orf.at, April 2, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Görgl, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görgl, Lizz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur , Austria