Ina Meschik

Ina Meschik
nation	Austria
birthday	25th September 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Sankt Veit an der Glan ,  Austria
size	160 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Army athlete
Career
discipline	Parallel races
status	resigned
End of career	October 29, 2018
Medal table
Junior World Championships 0 × 1 × 2 × National championships 2 × 1 × 2 ×
Snowboard Junior World Championships silver 2008 Valmalenco Parallel giant slalom bronze 2009 Nagano Parallel giant slalom bronze 2010 Snow Park Parallel giant slalom
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup January 9, 2008  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 22. ( 2009/10 )  Parallel World Cup 5. ( 2015/16 , 2016/17 )  PGS World Cup 4. ( 2016/17 )  PSL World Cup 3. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Parallel 1 2 5
last change: October 27, 2018

Ina Meschik (born September 25, 1990 in Sankt Veit an der Glan ) is a former Austrian snowboarder . She started in the parallel giant slalom and in the parallel slalom for the SK TSA Landskron located in the municipality of Villach .

Career

Ina Meschik visited the Sport-BORG Spittal an der Drau .

In January 2006 she drove her first race in the European Cup in Radstadt , which she finished in 17th and 12th place in the parallel slalom. The following year she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom and the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival 2007 in Jaca . In the 2007/08 season she came in third place three times in the European Cup and twice.

World Cup debut 2008

In addition, she had two wins and at the end of the season she finished second in the parallel overall ranking. She made her debut in the Snowboard World Cup in January 2008 in Bad Gastein . She came in 19th place in the parallel slalom. In March 2008 she won the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2008 in Chiesa in Valmalenco . After placing three and two in the European Cup in Abzakovo at the beginning of the 2008/09 season , she took 11 wins and a second place and thus won the parallel ranking. In March 2009 she won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2009 in Nagano and achieved her first top ten placement in the World Cup with 4th place in La Molina . After two second places in the European Cup at the beginning of the 2009/10 season, she came on the podium in the World Cup for the first time with third place in Telluride .

2010 Winter Olympics

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was sixth in the parallel giant slalom. In March 2010 she achieved another podium finish with third place in La Molina and reached 11th place in the Parallel World Cup at the end of the season. At the 2010 Snowboard Junior World Championships in Cardrona , she won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom. Her best World Cup result in the 2010/11 season was seventh in the parallel slalom in Landgraaf . At the Snowboard World Championships 2011 in La Molina she finished 16th in the parallel giant slalom.

In the following season she came in the top ten four times in the World Cup and thus reached 13th place in the parallel World Cup. At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham , she achieved 14th place in the parallel giant slalom. Also in the season she became Austrian champion in parallel slalom. After finishing second in the European Cup at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, she achieved three top ten results in the World Cup and took third and first place in the parallel slalom in the European Cup in Lachtal .

2014 Winter Olympics

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she finished fourth overall in the parallel giant slalom. In the race for the bronze medal she lost to the Russian Aljona Zavarsina . In the parallel slalom, she came eighth.

In March 2014 she became Austrian champion in parallel slalom and giant slalom and second in parallel giant slalom in the European Cup in Gerlitzen . She finished the season in sixth place in the parallel ranking of the European Cup and in tenth place in the parallel World Cup. She also finished seventh in the parallel giant slalom world cup. In the 2014/15 season she came in the top ten three times in the World Cup, including second place in the parallel giant slalom in Rogla , 12th place in the parallel slalom world cup and in the parallel world cup and tenth place in the parallel giant slalom world cup. In the European Cup, she finished once in second and once in first place and was eighth in the parallel ranking.

At the 2015 Snowboard World Championships in Lachtal, she achieved tenth place in the parallel slalom. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season she reached three third places in the European Cup. In the further course of the season she came in the top ten five times in the World Cup, including third place in the parallel giant slalom in Kayseri and second place in the parallel slalom in Winterberg . In March 2016 she won two European Cups and thus achieved third place in the parallel classification and first place in the parallel giant slalom classification. In the World Cup, she finished sixth in the parallel giant slalom world cup, fifth in the parallel world cup and third in the parallel slalom world cup at the end of the season.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, she won her first World Cup victory in the parallel giant slalom in Carezza . In the further course of the season she reached five top ten placings, including third place in the parallel giant slalom in Rogla and thus finished tenth in the parallel slalom world cup, fifth in the parallel world cup and fourth in the parallel giant slalom world cup. At the season highlight of the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she finished ninth in the parallel slalom and eighth in the parallel giant slalom.

Olympic Winter Games 2018

Meschik was nominated for the third time in 2018 for a starting place at the Winter Olympics in February in the South Korean city ​​of Pyeongchang . In the parallel giant slalom, the 27-year-old made it to the quarter-finals on February 24 and finished eighth.

In October 2018, the 28-year-old declared her active career over after 13 years.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

date	place	country	discipline	space
Feb. 24, 2018	Pyeongchang	COR	Parallel giant slalom	8th
Feb 22, 2014	Sochi	RUS	Parallel slalom	8th
19th Feb. 2014	Sochi	RUS	Parallel giant slalom	4th
Feb. 26, 2010	Vancouver	CAN	Parallel giant slalom	6th

World championships

• 2011 La Molina : 16th place parallel giant slalom
• 2013 Stoneham : 14th place parallel giant slalom
• 2015 Kreischberg : 10th place parallel slalom
• 2017 Sierra Nevada : 8th place parallel giant slalom, 9th place parallel slalom

World Cup overall placements

season	Parallel		Parallel giant slalom		Parallel slalom
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2007/08	148	46.	-	-	-	-
2008/09	1155	24.	-	-	-	-
2009/10	2440	11.	-	-	-	-
2010/11	1248	23.	-	-	-	-
2011/12	2460	13.	-	-	-	-
2012/13	990	21st	670	21st	414	18th
2013/14	1660	10.	1100	7th	560	12.
2014/15	2346	12.	1080	10.	1266	12.
2015/16	3010	5.	1140	6th	1870	3.
2016/17	3260	5.	2430	4th	830	10.
2017/18	2920	13.	2540	10.	380	19th

Web links

Commons : Ina Meschik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ina Meschik in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ina Meschik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "My first professional goal was kindergarten teacher" (March 2nd, 2017)
2. ↑ Winner list ÖM Snowboard ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ The Carinthian athletes at the Olympics (January 22, 2018)
4. ↑ ÖSV snowboarder Meschik announced her resignation (October 29, 2018)