Hilde Gerg

Hilde Gerg

nation

Germany

birthday

19th October 1975 (age 44)

place of birth

Lenggries , Germany

size

171 cm

Weight

70 kg

Career

discipline

Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination

society

Lenggries Ski Club

status

resigned

End of career

November 21, 2005

Medal table

Olympic medals	1 ×	1 ×
World Cup medals	1 ×	3 ×
JWM medals	1 ×	0 ×

winter Olympics
gold	Nagano 1998	slalom
bronze	Nagano 1998	combination
Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze	Sestriere 1997	Super G
bronze	Sestriere 1997	combination
bronze	St. Anton 2001	Super G
gold	Bormio 2005	team
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold	Lake Placid 1994	Super G

Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Individual World Cup debut	17th January 1993
Individual world cup victories	20th
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1998/99 )
Downhill World Cup	2. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Super G World Cup	1. ( 1996/97 , 2001/02 )
Giant Slalom World Cup	9. (1996/97, 1997/98 )
Slalom World Cup	3. (1997/98)
Combination World Cup	1. (1997/98, 1998/99)

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Departure	7th	6th	10
Super G	8th	6th	9
Giant slalom	0	0	1
slalom	1	3	1
combination	3	2	1
Parallel races	1	0	0

Mathilde "Hilde" Gerg (born October 19, 1975 in Lenggries , official family name after marriage: Graßl ) is a former German ski racer .

biography

Gerg won a total of six Olympic and World Cup medals in her career: Gold in slalom and bronze in combination at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , World Cup bronze in Super-G and Combination 1997 , World Cup bronze in Super-G 2001 and World Cup -Gold in the team competition 2005 . At the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was the flag bearer of the German delegation, but could not win a medal in the downhill or Super-G.

For winning the gold and bronze medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf.

She already experienced her first Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer , but when she was eliminated in the giant slalom - after finishing 2nd in the first run (starting number 28). In 1994 she was junior world champion, in the 1996/97 and 2001/02 seasons she took first place in the Super G World Cup. In the course of her career she was able to achieve 20 World Cup victories. On November 21, 2005, she announced her retirement from competitive sports after a serious injury. From 2006 to 2012 she worked as a co-commentator on ski broadcasts on ZDF .

Today Hilde Gerg lives in the community of Schönau am Königssee . Since marrying Wolfgang Graßl in June 2000, she has had his family name, but in the sports field she continues to appear under the name Gerg. With him she has a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2009). On April 12, 2010, her husband died of an aorta tear . In 2014 Gerg married again and became a mother for the third time in the summer of 2015.

successes

winter Olympics

Lillehammer 1994 : 8th combination, 18th super-G
Nagano 1998 : 1st slalom, 3rd combination, 9th descent, 10th Super-G, 13th giant slalom
Salt Lake City 2002 : 4th Downhill, 5th Super-G

World championships

Sierra Nevada 1996 : 10th combination, 13th slalom, 17th giant slalom, 19th super-G
Sestriere 1997 : 3rd Super-G, 3rd combination, 6th slalom, 14th giant slalom, 15th descent
Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 4th Super-G, 4th combination, 12th descent
St. Anton 2001 : 3rd Super-G, 6th downhill
St. Moritz 2003 : 14th downhill, 20th super-G
Bormio 2005 : 1st team competition, 8th downhill, 13th super-G

World Cup ratings

Hilde Gerg won the discipline rankings twice in the Super-G and in the combination.

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
season	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1992/93	106.	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	48.	14th	-	-
1993/94	18th	344	48.	16	3.	200	29	53	39.	40	15th	35
1994/95	37.	186	45.	4th	17th	109	34.	26th	43.	15th	8th.	32
1995/96	15th	489	22nd	78	11.	167	17th	96	24.	88	3.	60
1996/97	3.	1150	7th	265	1.	490	9.	174	15th	141	2.	80
1997/98	3.	1391	5.	224	7th	197	9.	209	3.	451	1.	200
1998/99	2.	1179	4th	431	6th	300	14th	146	17th	122	1.	180
1999/00	26th	376	14th	166	10.	178	57.	7th	37.	25th	-	-
2000/01	32.	274	11.	186	28.	64	-	-	-	-	11.	24
2001/02	4th	847	4th	412	1.	355	41.	30th	-	-	9.	50
2002/03	14th	491	6th	196	7th	281	39.	14th	-	-	-	-
2003/04	4th	962	2.	546	4th	390	35.	26th	-	-	-	-
2004/05	7th	799	2.	495	5.	296	-	-	-	-	23.	8th

World Cup victories

59 podium places, of which 20 wins (7 × downhill, 8 × super-G, 1 × slalom, 1 × parallel slalom , 3 × combination):

date	place	country	discipline
February 6, 1994	Sierra Nevada	Spain	Super G
December 12, 1996	Val d'Isère	France	Super G
November 28, 1997	Mammoth Mountain	United States	Parallel slalom
December 20, 1997	Val d'Isère	France	combination
January 11, 1998	Bormio	Italy	slalom
January 31, 1998	Are	Sweden	combination
December 18, 1998	Veysonnaz	Switzerland	Departure
December 20, 1998	Veysonnaz	Switzerland	combination
January 2, 1999	Maribor	Slovenia	Super G
March 8, 2001	Are	Sweden	Departure
December 15, 2001	Val d'Isère	France	Super G
January 11, 2002	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	Austria	Departure
January 12, 2002	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	Austria	Departure
January 25, 2002	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Super G
November 29, 2002	Aspen	United States	Super G
December 6, 2002	Lake Louise	Canada	Departure
January 11, 2004	Veysonnaz	Switzerland	Super G
January 17, 2004	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Departure
4th December 2004	Lake Louise	Canada	Departure
December 21, 2004	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Super G

German championships

German champion in Super-G 1997 and downhill 2005

Others

Gerg took part in the third season of the competition show Eternal Heroes in 2018 .

Web links

Hilde Gerg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Hilde Gerg in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Website of Hilde Gerg
Hilde Gerg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Wikinews: Hilde Gerg - in the news

Individual evidence

↑ Introduced: The "Faces of the Games" of the Special Olympics Berchtesgaden 2020. Special Olympics Deutschland eV, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
↑ Hilde Gerg - holiday apartment. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2010 ; Retrieved February 20, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2
↑ At the age of 40: Hilde Gerg's husband is dead , spiegel-online on April 13, 2010
↑ Five months pregnant! Bunte , March 4, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gerg, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerg, Mathilde; Graßl, Hilde (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	19th October 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lenggries

[1] Introduced: The "Faces of the Games" of the Special Olympics Berchtesgaden 2020. Special Olympics Deutschland eV, accessed on March 15, 2020 .

[2] Hilde Gerg - holiday apartment. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2010 ; Retrieved February 20, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2

[3] At the age of 40: Hilde Gerg's husband is dead , spiegel-online on April 13, 2010

[4] Five months pregnant! Bunte , March 4, 2015, accessed November 14, 2015 .