Harald de Man

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Harald de Man Alpine skiing
Harald de Man.jpg
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
birthday May 31, 1973
place of birth Alkmaar
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom
status resigned
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 139th ( 1998/99 )
 Super G World Cup 49th (1998/99)
 

Harald de Man (born May 31, 1973 in Alkmaar ) is a former ski racer from the Netherlands . In the results lists of the International Ski Association , he is given  the addition II due to the fact that his name is identical to a previous skier - similar to Bruno Kernen .

biography

The Dutchman started skiing in the 1980s, and was the best ski racer in his country in the 1990s. When Super-G of Aspen in the 1998-99 season , he was 26 and ended up in the World Cup -Punkterängen. Up until Marvin van Heek's eighth place in the downhill run from Val Gardena in 2012, he was the only male ski racer of the Dutch Ski Association to ever win World Cup points. At Winter Olympics Harald de Man took due to strict selection criteria of the Dutch NOC never part, but with five Alpine Ski World Championships ( Vail 1989 , Saalbach 1991 , Sierra Nevada 1996 , Sestriere 1997 and St. Anton in 2001 ). His best results were 17th in Sestriere and 23rd in the Sierra Nevada, both in the giant slalom . In 1999 de Man was absent from the World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek because he had a hard fall two weeks after winning the World Cup points in the downhill from Val-d'Isère and had to end the season. In 2001 he remained at his last World Cup participation without a countable result. From 1994 to 2002 de Man was eleven times Dutch champion .

After the end of his skiing career, de Man worked as a trainer in the Dutch ski association. He lives in Austria; first in Koblach , Vorarlberg , then in Maishofen , Salzburg . At SK Maishofen he is an amateur soccer player.

successes

World championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

Dutch championships

  • 11 Dutch championship titles :
    • 4 × slalom (1994, 1996, 1998, 2002)
    • 4 × giant slalom (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
    • 1 × Super-G (1994)
    • 2 × combination (1994, 1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nederlandse skiërs 'geen exoten'. de Volkskrant , February 8, 2001, accessed December 16, 2012 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ HARALD DE MAN 'Stop met dat gevaarlijke skiën? geen sprake van '. de Volkskrant , January 19, 1999, accessed December 16, 1999 (Dutch).
  3. ^ SK Maishofen
  4. ↑ Results of the world championships according to www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com, accessed on November 10, 2010 (website no longer online).
personal data
SURNAME Man, Harald de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Alkmaar , the Netherlands