Elisabeth Osl

Elisabeth Osl

Elisabeth Osl at the World Cup (April 2012)
To person
Nickname	Lisi
Date of birth	21st November 1985 (age 34)
nation	Austria
discipline	Cross country
Team (s)
since 2008	Team GHOST International
Most important successes
Austrian champion 9-time Cross Country Champion (2005-2011, 2017, 2018)
Last updated: August 5, 2018

Elisabeth (Lisi) Osl (born November 21, 1985 in Kirchberg in Tirol , Austria ) is an Austrian mountain bike racer. She is a two-time Olympian (2008, 2012) and nine-time national champion (2005–2018).

Elisabeth Osl at the «Kitzalpbike» in Kirchberg in Triol (2007)

career

Elisabeth Osl grew up in Kirchberg in Tirol as the fourth of five children and comes from a sporty family. At that time, father Philipp competed in road bike races, sisters Maria and Michaela are also active in mountain bike racing.

Elisabeth started her sports career in 1998 by taking part in hobby mountain bike races. In 2001 she made the leap into the Austrian national team and since 2001 she has also participated successfully in races at national level and won several national championship titles in the U17 class and in 2002 the junior vice world championship in Kaprun .

From the beginning until 2008 she started for the Kirchberg mountain bike team Tonis Pro Team Kirchberg . Elisabeth has been a professional athlete for the Austrian Armed Forces at HLSZ Hochfilzen since 2003 . At the beginning of 2008 she moved to the GHOST International team .

In the UCI world rankings of October 18, 2007 (2007 UCI Mountain Bike Rankings), Elisabeth Osl was the second best European in seventh place.

2008 Summer Olympics

On May 18, 2008 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing with a ninth place at the European Championships in St. Wendel . There she came in eleventh place, 6:28 minutes behind the German winner Sabine Spitz .

At the last World Cup race and at the same time her home race in Schladming in Austria on September 19, 2009, she achieved something that no Austrian MTB athlete had ever done before: She won the MTB World Cup in cross-country with a superior start-finish run and 1:05 minutes ahead of Norwegian competitor Lene Byberg. Eighty fans from Kirchberg had arrived in anticipation of this triumph, including their closest confidants from the early hours of their young career.

In 2011 she became Austrian Cross Country Champion for the seventh time in a row.

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 she was able to qualify again for the Summer Olympics in London , starting there on August 12th together with Karl Markt and Alexander Gehbauer for Austria and finishing in 15th place.

In 2014 she was ranked 16th in the world. In July 2017, the 31-year-old won the title at the Austrian Cross Country Championships for the eighth time in Koppl (Salzburg).

In July 2018 she was able to successfully defend her title from the previous year in Cross Country on Zanzenberg near Dornbirn and won the ninth national championship. She is in a relationship with the Swiss Andreas Gilgen , who also trains her.

Awards

• In 2009 she was honored as third place at the gala of the athlete of the year .
• In 2009 she was voted Austria's cyclist of the year (only the second woman after Christiane Soeder in 2007)
• In 2011, in honor of Elisabeth Osl, the Kirchberg Tourist Association named the “Lisi-Osl-Trail”, a 2.3 km long downhill route on the Gaisberg after her. The route opened by the namesake on May 31st leads from the mountain station 450 m down the Gaisberg. With a level of difficulty from S1 to S2 (easy to medium), the route should also be feasible for single trail beginners.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Elisabeth Osl at the gala to honor athlete of the year 2009

Successes Cross Country

2015

• 2nd place in the final of the Cyprus Sunshine Cup

2011

• 6th place at the World Cup , Mont Sainte-Anne , Canada
• 9th place at the World Cup , Windham, USA
• 10th place at the World Cup , Pietermaritzburg , South Africa

2010

• 5th place mountain bike world championship
• 3rd place at the World Cup , Houffalize , Belgium
• 5th place at the World Cup , Offenburg , Germany
• 5th place at the World Cup , Windham, USA
• 9th place at the World Cup , Champéry , Switzerland
• 13th place at the World Cup , Dalby Forest , England

2009

• 1st place at the World Cup , Schladming , Austria (1st overall)
• 1st place at the World Cup , Champéry , Switzerland (1st overall)
• 4th place at the World Cup , Bromont , Canada (2nd overall)
• 6th place at the World Cup , Mont Sainte-Anne , Canada (2nd overall)
• 1st place Mountain Bike Bundesliga overall ranking
• 6th place at the World Cup , Madrid , Spain (2nd overall)
• 5th place at the World Cup , Houffalize , Belgium (2nd overall)
• 5th place at the World Cup , Offenburg , Germany (1st overall)
• 1st place at the World Cup , Pietermaritzburg , South Africa

2008

• 11th place at the Olympic Games , Beijing , China
• 4th place in the Swiss Power Cup in Bern , Switzerland
• 11th place at the World Cup, Bromont, Canada
• 8th place at the World Cup, Mont Sainte-Anne , Canada
• 8th place at the World Championships, Val di Sole , Italy
• 9th place at the European Championships, St. Wendel , Germany
• 3rd place at the elite race in Nals , Italy

2007

• 2nd place at the U23 European Championship
• 3rd place at the U23 World Championship
• 6th place at the World Cup, Champery , Switzerland

2002

• 2nd place at the Junior World Championship, Kaprun , Austria
• 1st place at the Austrian Junior Championship

2001

• 1st place at the Austrian U17 championship

Hillclimb successes

• 2004 - 3rd of the Austrian championship
• 2003 - Austrian Junior Champion
• 2002 - Austrian Junior Champion

Web links

• Website of Lisi Osl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Message on the homepage of the Team GHOST International Athletes ( Memento from August 4th, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Favorite victories on Zanzenberg (July 23, 2018)
3. ^ The new "Lisi Osl Trail" ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Lisi Osl finished second in the final in Cyprus (March 8, 2015)