Hannes Reichelt

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Hannes Reichelt Alpine skiing
Hannes Reichelt in February 2011
Hannes Reichelt in February 2011
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 5th July 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Altenmarkt im Pongau , Austria
size 184 cm
Weight 84 kg
job Regular soldier
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society SC Radstadt
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Super G
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Québec 2000 Super G
bronze Québec 2000 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 7, 2001
 Individual world cup victories 13
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 2011/12 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. ( 2013/14 , 2014/15 )
 Super G World Cup 1. ( 2007/08 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 5th (2011/12)
 Combination World Cup 17. ( 2012/13 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 6th 6th 7th
 Super G 6th 5 8th
 Giant slalom 1 2 3
 team 0 1 1
last change: March 9, 2020

Hannes Reichelt (born July 5, 1980 in Altenmarkt im Pongau ) is an Austrian ski racer . He achieved successes above all in super-G and downhill , in earlier years of his career also in giant slalom . He won two medals at the Junior World Championship in 2000 and was the overall European Cup winner in 2005 . In the World Cup he has won 13 races so far and the Super G World Cup in the 2007/08 season . He won his first medal at major events at the 2011 World Championship with silver in the Super-G, and at the 2015 World Championship he won his first World Championship title in the same discipline. From 2003 to 2012 he was Austrian national champion five times .

biography

After secondary school in Radstadt , where he lives , Reichelt attended the Schladming ski trade school and then the local HAK advanced course there, which he completed with the Matura in 2002 . He competed in his first FIS races in the mid-1990s . In the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons he had his first appearances in the European Cup in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee , but he was still a long way from scoring points. In 1999 Reichelt was accepted into the C-team of the Austrian Ski Association . After several victories in FIS races, he achieved his first major successes at the Junior World Championship in 2000 . He won the bronze medal in the super-G and in the combination. A short time later he picked up his first points in the European Cup.

In the 2000/01 season , Reichelt made it to the top in the European Cup. In December he finished in the top ten in the Super-G in St. Moritz for the first time and a month later he celebrated his first victory in the Super-G in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. In the final ranking he came fourth in the Super-G. On December 7, 2001 Reichelt had his first appearance in the World Cup in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère . But he couldn't finish the race. In the European Cup he celebrated his second victory in the Super-G of La Clusaz in the 2001/02 season . With a further two podium places and a further seven places in the top ten, he came in second in the Super-G classification and fourth in the overall and downhill classification. At the beginning of the 2002/03 European Cup season, Reichelt won three giant slaloms in a row. He then came to the Super-G in Val Gardena on December 20, 2002 for his second World Cup appearance, in which he completely surprisingly (with starting number 35) finished second. At the end of January he finished eighth in the Super-G in Kitzbühel , which meant that he secured a starting place for the 2003 World Championship in St. Moritz, but was canceled there. He achieved another top result at the season finale in Kvitfjell , where he finished third in the Super-G and thus finished fifth in the Super-G World Cup. In addition to his three giant slalom victories in the European Cup, he had two victories in the Super-G and with another four podium places he won the giant slalom classification and was second in the overall and super-G classification. In the same winter he became Austrian champion in combination.

After a broken collarbone in November 2003, Reichelt was unable to match the previous year's results in the winter of 2003/04. Because he did not see the finish in three races in a row in the World Cup, he had to start again in the European Cup from January. There his best result of the season was the sixth place in the Super-G of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. In the 2004/05 European Cup season , Reichelt found his way back to his old form. He won a total of six races (two downhill runs, super-Gs and giant slaloms) and made it onto the podium eight more times. He won the overall standings with the same number of points as the Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud , was second in the Super-G, third in the downhill and third in the giant slalom and thus got a World Cup starting place for the next season in these disciplines. At the European Cup final in Roccaraso , Reichelt sustained a knee injury, but this no longer prevented him the next winter. In the World Cup, he was twice in the top 15 this season in the Super-Gs of Kitzbühel and Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

In the 2005/06 season , Reichelt also made it back to the top in the World Cup. On December 1, 2005, he celebrated his first World Cup victory in the Super-G of Beaver Creek and in January he was third in the Super-G of Kitzbühel, with which he reached fourth place in the discipline World Cup. At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he finished tenth. At the end of the season he was Austrian giant slalom champion. The 2006/07 season did not go so well. Reichelt was only twice in the top ten, his best result was seventh place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora . Participation in the 2007 World Cup in Åre was questionable until the end. Finally he was able to start in the giant slalom, but he was eliminated in the first round.

Super G discipline winner 2007/08

In the 2007/08 season things went up well again for the Salzburg man . On December 3, 2007 he celebrated his second World Cup victory in the Super-G of Beaver Creek and on February 23, 2008 he won the giant slalom in Whistler . Two days earlier he was second in the local Super-G. With his victory in the last Super-G of the season, Reichelt was able to win the Super-G World Cup ahead of Swiss Didier Cuche with a minimal lead of one point . Before the race, Cuche had 99 points ahead of the Austrian, but did not make it into the points at the season finale, as his teammate Daniel Albrecht pushed him out of the points. Thus Reichelt was able to surpass him with the 100 points for the victory, in which he was only a hundredth of a second faster than the runner-up Didier Défago , and get his first crystal ball for winning the discipline World Cup. In the overall World Cup, he came tenth in his best season to date and eighth in the giant slalom.

In the winter of 2008/09 , however, Reichelt fell back again. With third place in the giant slalom in Alta Badia, he came on the podium only once and only two more times in the top ten, which is why he fell significantly behind in the overall World Cup and in the discipline rankings and was transferred to the A-squad by the national team at the end of the season . At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he only started in the giant slalom and could not qualify for the second round. In March 2009 Reichelt became Austrian champion in giant slalom and super-G.

In the first few months of the 2009/10 season , Reichelt was twice in the top ten. He got a starting place for the super combination of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , but injured his elbow in training shortly before and could not take part in the race. He achieved his best results towards the end of the season with second place in the Super-G at Kvitfjell and fourth in the Super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which meant that he was able to return to the national team for the next winter.

World championship silver in Super-G 2011

Reichelt won his fifth World Cup race on February 5, 2011 in Hinterstoder , thus securing his nomination for the World Championship in the last race before the World Championship. Just four days later he was runner-up in the Super-G at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , winning his first precious metal at major events. During training for the World Cup giant slalom, he suffered a knee bruise and therefore had to skip this competition.

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Reichelt achieved his first World Cup podium in the downhill with third place in Lake Louise . He achieved his best downhill result to date on January 14, 2012 when he finished second on the Lauberhorn in Wengen . Overall, he achieved seven podium places during the season, but a win was denied him. In the overall World Cup ranking he came in fifth place. On December 29, 2012, Reichelt won his first World Cup downhill run: At the same time as Dominik Paris , he won the downhill run on Pista Stelvio in Bormio - just a hundredth of a second ahead of third-placed Aksel Lund Svindal . There was also a third place three times this winter.

In the 2013/14 season , Reichelt was only successful in the speed disciplines, especially in the downhill. After three second places in Beaver Creek, Bormio and Wengen, he won the prestigious downhill in Kitzbühel on January 25th . This was the first downhill victory of an Austrian on the Streif since Michael Walchhofer in 2006. Two days later he announced that he would be out for the rest of the season due to a severe herniated disc and that he would miss the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Gold medal in Beaver Creek

Despite this, Reichelt got off to a good start into the 2014/15 season and won the Super-G in Beaver Creek on December 6th. On January 18, 2015, he was able to win another important downhill classic alongside Kitzbühel and Bormio with the Lauberhorn run in Wengen . At the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, he won gold in the Super-G. On that February 5th, at the age of 34 years and 215 days, he became the oldest world champion in history, but was won two years later (on February 8, 2017) by Erik Guay , also in the Super-G, in his gold run at the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz replaced. After he was the third part of an Austrian triple victory on February 21, 2015 at the downhill in Saalbach , he led one himself just a week later in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and thus won another downhill classic in the World Cup. A week later he won another downhill run in Kvitfjell . He also had the chance to win the Downhill World Cup (16 points behind Kjetil Jansrud ), but he failed to drive at the finals on March 18, 2015 in Méribel (rank 10), while Jansrud won the race.

In January 2016, Reichelt had a hard crash on the downhill run on the Streif . He suffered a bruised knee. He had to undergo meniscus surgery in September. Accordingly, his (renewed) comeback season did not start that strong. With his victory in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 28, 2017, he became the oldest Alpine World Cup winner of the ÖSV and he overtook Hermann Maier (who won the Super-G in Lake Louise on November 30, 2008) at the age of 36, 6 months and 3 weeks by almost exactly seven months. At the season finale in Aspen , thanks to his victory in the Super-G, he was able to advance to 2nd place in the discipline classification.

On February 22, 2019 Reichelt suffered at the Alpine combined in Bansko a whiplash . In the 2018/19 season, however, he can no longer continue his old performance and achieved his best result of the season with fourth place in the Super-G of Lake Louise. At the end of December 2019, the 39-year-old suffered a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and a bony tear in the outer capsular ligament complex on his right knee on the descent in Bormio.

Private

Reichelt has been married to Larissa Hofer (* 1986) since 2016, who herself appeared as a ski racer until 2009 and is the daughter of the Sulden ski school director Emil Hofer. In April 2019, he became the father of a son.

successes

Hannes Reichelt during the award ceremony of the World Cup Super G in Hinterstoder on February 5, 2011

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2002/03 42. 194 - - 5. 194 - - - -
2003/04 138. 4th - - - - 52. 4th - -
2004/05 95. 38 - - 31. 38 - - - -
2005/06 20th 425 34. 33 4th 250 16. 142 - -
2006/07 48. 158 - - 24. 56 13. 102 - -
2007/08 10. 594 51. 8th 1. 341 8th. 245 - -
2008/09 41. 198 - - 18th 69 17th 129 - -
2009/10 27. 257 - - 7th 186 21st 71 - -
2010/11 23. 362 36. 39 5. 207 12. 115 56. 1
2011/12 5. 1024 4th 396 8th. 241 5. 337 20th 50
2012/13 8th. 595 5. 290 6th 161 17th 122 17th 22nd
2013/14 12. 476 2. 360 18th 100 37. 16 - -
2014/15 6th 760 2. 511 4th 243 47. 6th - -
2015/16 16. 485 10. 296 13. 174 48. 15th - -
2016/17 8th. 556 6th 253 2. 303 - - - -
2017/18 10. 535 8th. 268 4th 267 - - - -
2018/19 27. 302 15th 153 14th 149 - - - -
2019/20 51. 155 28. 74 17th 81 - - - -

World Cup victories

  • 44 podium places in individual races, including 13 victories:
date place country discipline
December 1, 2005 Beaver Creek United States Super G
December 3, 2007 Beaver Creek United States Super G
February 23, 2008 Whistler Canada Giant slalom
March 13, 2008 Bormio Italy Super G
February 5, 2011 Hinterstoder Austria Super G
December 29, 2012 * Bormio Italy Departure
January 25, 2014 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
December 6, 2014 Beaver Creek United States Super G
January 18, 2015 Wengen Switzerland Departure
February 28, 2015 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
March 7, 2015 Kvitfjell Norway Departure
January 28, 2017 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
March 16, 2017 Aspen United States Super G

* at the same time as Dominik Paris

European Cup

  • 2000/01 season : 4th Super-G classification
  • 2001/02 season : 4th overall ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking, 4th downhill ranking
  • 2002/03 season : 2nd overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking
  • 2004/05 season : overall winner, 2nd Super-G classification, 3rd downhill classification, 3rd giant slalom classification
  • 28 podium places, including 13 wins:
date place country discipline
January 20, 2001 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Super G
March 11, 2002 La Clusaz France Super G
November 27, 2002 Levi Finland Giant slalom
November 28, 2002 Levi Finland Giant slalom
December 10, 2002 St. Vigil Italy Giant slalom
January 13, 2003 Lech Austria Super G
February 13, 2003 Sella Nevea Italy Super G
January 26, 2005 Tarvisio Italy Departure
January 27, 2005 Tarvisio Italy Departure
January 28, 2005 Tarvisio Italy Super G
February 14, 2005 Sella Nevea Italy Super G
February 17, 2005 Oberjoch Germany Giant slalom
March 8, 2005 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Québec 2000 : 3rd combination, 3rd super-G, 5th slalom, 11th downhill, 15th giant slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Hannes Reichelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ That hurts! Reichelt doesn't go to Sochi. heute.at, January 27, 2014, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hirner, Thomas: Streif: Season end for Svindal and Streitberger after cruciate ligament tears at derstandard.at, January 24, 2016 (accessed January 24, 2016).
  3. ↑ Marco Schwarz and Hannes Reichelt left Bansko injured. Spox.com , February 22, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reichelt does not give up after the cruciate ligament rupture. Courier , December 31, 2019, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Südtirol online ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on September 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Larissa Hofer on the official FIS website , accessed on February 5, 2015
  7. ↑ Vice world champion on Sulden's slopes , accessed on February 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichelt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenmarkt im Pongau , Austria