Thomas Hettegger
Thomas Hettegger 
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| birthday | January 14, 1994 (age 26) | ||||||
| place of birth | Austria | ||||||
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Giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | SK Wagrain | ||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||
| End of career | May 2020 | ||||||
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Thomas Hettegger (born January 14, 1994 ) is a former Austrian ski racer . From 2015 he was a member of the B-team of the Austrian Ski Association and specialized in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .
biography
Thomas Hettegger comes from Wagrain in Salzburg and started for his home club.
Hettegger took part in two Junior World Championships , in 2015 in Hafjell he achieved a tenth place in the Super-G and an eleventh place in the slalom as the best results. With the team he won the silver medal. He won three national youth championship titles, in 2015 in giant slalom and in 2016 in slalom and combined .
Hettegger made his European Cup debut on January 19, 2013 in the giant slalom in Kirchberg . After numerous failures and non-qualifications, he scored 26th place for the first time in January 2016. He achieved his first result among the top ten a year later in Zell am See . On January 12, 2017, he celebrated his first European Cup victory in the second slalom ex aequo with Christian Hirschbühl and Leif Kristian Haugen .
Only three days after his first victory in the European Cup, he made his World Cup debut in the Wengen slalom , where he was eliminated in the first round. On December 22nd, 2017, he won World Cup points for the first time by finishing 16th in the night slalom in Madonna di Campiglio . At the end of the season he had a hard fall in a European Cup giant slalom in Berchtesgaden , tearing the anterior cruciate ligament , the patellar tendon , the medial ligament and both menisci in his right knee. He ended his career in May 2020.
successes
World cup
- 1 place in the top 20
European Cup
- 2 placements among the top ten, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 12, 2017 | Zell am See | Austria | Slalom * |
* at the same time as Christian Hirschbühl and Leif Kristian Haugen
Junior World Championships
- Jasná 2014 : 25th Super-G
- Hafjell 2015 : 2nd team competition, 10th Super-G, 11th slalom, 40th downhill
More Achievements
- Austrian youth champion in giant slalom 2015 and slalom and combined 2016
- 7 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Thomas Hettegger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Thomas Hettegger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Division of cadres. (No longer available online.) In: www.oesv.at. Archived from the original on December 11, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hettegger sustains severe knee injuries. ORF , March 10, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Herbert Struber: The "Kitz" calls the Salzburg regional squad kids. May 21, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hettegger, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1994 |