Hannes Trinkl

Hannes Trinkl
nation	Austria
birthday	1st February 1968 (age 52)
place of birth	Steyr , Austria
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , combination
society	SC Hinterstoder
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Nagano 1998 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships gold St. Anton 2001 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 6th  Overall World Cup 5th ( 1993/94 )  Downhill World Cup 2. (1993/94)  Super G World Cup 7th ( 2000/01 )  Combination World Cup 8. ( 1998/99 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 5 6th 11  Super G 1 1 1

Hannes Trinkl (born February 1, 1968 in Steyr ) is a former Austrian ski racer . The departure - and Super-G -Spezialist won six in his career World Cup race was downhill world champion in 2001 and third in the Olympic downhill 1998 . He lives with his family in St. Pankraz . He has been the FIS World Cup Race Director since 2014 .

biography

Trinkl came to the Ski Club Hinterstoder at the age of seven, and in 1984 he celebrated his first victory in an FIS race . After two serious knee injuries in 1986 and 1989, he picked up his first points in the World Cup on December 7, 1991 in the downhill from Val-d'Isère . Shortly afterwards he injured himself again during training in Val Gardena and had to take a break for several weeks. In March 1992 he achieved his first top result with fifth place in Aspen . With good performances in the 1992/93 season , including fourth place in the Kandahar downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Trinkl joined the downhill team for the World Championship in Morioka-Shizukuishi and finished twelfth there. At the end of the season he was in the top three for the first time on the downhill runs in the Sierra Nevada and in Kvitfjell .

In December 1993, Trinkl celebrated his first World Cup victories. He won the Super-G in Lech and the downhill in Bormio . This made him one of the favorites at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . However, his first participation in the Olympics did not go as planned, in the downhill he only achieved sixth place, in the Super-G he was eliminated. In the first World Cup downhill run after the Games, the Upper Austrian stood on the podium for the third time in Aspen . With a total of three wins, two second and one third place, he reached fifth place in the overall World Cup and was second in the downhill classification , 20 points behind Marc Girardelli . In the overall World Cup, this fifth place is by far his best result, and he was later unable to repeat second place in the downhill classification. The next three seasons were quite disappointing, with Trinkl only getting onto the podium once. At the 1996 World Cup in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, he only finished ninth in the downhill, for the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere he was unable to qualify.

In the 1997/98 season , Trinkl was able to qualify with several top five results for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . There he won the downhill bronze medal behind the French Jean-Luc Crétier and the Norwegian Lasse Kjus . In the 1998/99 season Trinkl achieved only a few top results, but in the downhill from Wengen he achieved second place.

On December 4th, 1999, Trinkl celebrated his fourth World Cup victory on the downhill run from Lake Louise , the first in almost six years. The next victory he achieved on March 14, 2000 in Bormio. With a further two third places, he reached fourth place in the Downhill World Cup in the 1999/2000 season . In the next winter he did not win the World Cup, but with a second place and some other good results he was able to defend fourth place in the Downhill World Cup. In the Super-G he also finished second once and finished seventh in the final ranking - his best result in this discipline. The then 33-year-old celebrated the greatest success of this winter and his entire career at the 2001 World Cup in St. Anton am Arlberg . He distanced Hermann Maier, who dominated the World Cup, by two tenths of a second on the "Karl-Schranz-Piste" and was downhill world champion.

Due to a serious injury before the start of the season, Trinkl was only able to intervene late in the race in winter 2001/02 . With second place on the Lauberhorn in Wengen and third on the Streif in Kitzbühel , he made an impressive return in January. Before the Olympic downhill run in Salt Lake City , however, the reigning world champion had to go into the team's internal qualification, in which he missed an Olympic starting place. It was a bitter disappointment for Trinkl. Shortly after the Games, he won his sixth World Cup race, the downhill from Kvitfjell. In the 2002/03 season , the Upper Austrian made it onto the podium three times and, as in the previous year, finished fifth in the Downhill World Cup and ninth in the Super G classification. At the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , however, the defending champion suffered a heavy defeat and was only 31st in the downhill.

In the 2003/04 season Trinkl no longer came on the podium. Two fifth places in the downhill runs from Chamonix and Garmisch-Partenkirchen were his best results. In the following summer training he tried again to catch up with the world's best, but finally announced his resignation on July 9, 2004, which was also due to constant knee pain.

Trinkl has been one of the vice-presidents of the Austrian Ski Association since 2005 . The "Hannes Trinkl World Cup course" opened in 2006 in Hinterstoder was named after him. Since the 2014/15 World Cup season he has been the FIS Race Director of the speed competitions. Among other things, he is responsible for preparing and setting courses for downhill races. Trinkl succeeds the resigned Helmuth Schmalzl .

successes

winter Olympics

• Lillehammer 1994 : 6th departure
• Nagano 1998 : 3rd descent

World championships

• Morioka-Shizukuishi 1993 : 12th departure
• Sierra Nevada 1996 : 9th departure
• St. Anton 2001 : 1st descent
• St. Moritz 2003 : 31st departure

World Cup ratings

• 1992/93 season : 8th descent
• 1993/94 season : 5th overall World Cup, 2nd Downhill, 8th Super-G
• 1994/95 season : 7th descent
• 1997/98 season : 8th descent
• 1998/99 season : 9th descent, 8th combination
• 1999/00 season : 4th descent, 10th combination
• 2000/01 season : 4th downhill, 7th super-G
• 2001/02 season : 5th descent
• Season 2002/03 : 5th Downhill, 9th Super-G

World Cup victories

Hannes Trinkl won six World Cup races (5 downhill and 1 super-G). There are also seven second places, twelve third places and a further 53 placements among the top ten.

date	place	country	discipline
December 22, 1993	Lech	Austria	Super G
December 29, 1993	Bormio	Italy	Departure
March 4, 1994	Aspen	United States	Departure
4th December 1999	Lake Louise	Canada	Departure
March 15, 2000	Bormio	Italy	Departure
March 2, 2002	Kvitfjell	Norway	Departure

European Cup

• 1990/91 season : 4th downhill classification

Awards (excerpt)

• 1998: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 456–457.

Web links

• Hannes Trinkl in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Hannes Trinkl in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Hannes Trinkl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )