Ingrid Hirschhofer

Ingrid Hirschhofer
Ingrid Hirschhofer in September 2009
nation	Austria
birthday	November 30, 1963
place of birth	Schwarzensee
size	160 cm
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	SC Sport Husar Bad Vöslau
status	active
Medal table
World championships 22 × 9 × 12 × European championships 16 × 9 × 5 ×
Grass ski world championships gold Bryce Resort 1979 slalom gold Bryce Resort 1979 combination gold Alberschwende 1981 Giant slalom gold Kiama 1983 Giant slalom gold Kiama 1983 combination silver Kiama 1983 slalom gold Owen 1985 slalom gold Owen 1985 combination bronze Owen 1985 Giant slalom gold Nobeyama 1987 slalom gold Nobeyama 1987 combination silver Nobeyama 1987 Giant slalom gold Kindberg 1989 Super G silver Kindberg 1989 Giant slalom gold Asiago 1993 slalom gold Asiago 1993 Giant slalom gold Asiago 1993 Super G gold Asiago 1993 combination gold Kálnica 1995 slalom gold Kálnica 1995 combination bronze Kálnica 1995 Giant slalom bronze Kálnica 1995 Super G bronze Müstair 1997 slalom bronze Müstair 1997 Giant slalom bronze Müstair 1997 combination silver Gaal 1999 Giant slalom silver Gaal 1999 Super G silver Gaal 1999 combination bronze Gaal 1999 slalom gold Forni di Sopra 2001 slalom gold Forni di Sopra 2001 combination silver Forni di Sopra 2001 Super G bronze Forni di Sopra 2001 Giant slalom gold Castione 2003 slalom gold Castione 2003 Giant slalom gold Dizin 2005 Giant slalom gold Dizin 2005 Super G silver Olešnice 2007 Giant slalom silver Olešnice 2007 Super G bronze Olešnice 2007 slalom bronze Rettenbach 2009 Super combo bronze Goldingen 2011 slalom bronze Goldingen 2011 Super G  European Grass Ski Championships bronze Bruck an der Mur 1976 Giant slalom silver Bischofsheim 1978 combination bronze Bischofsheim 1978 slalom gold Davos 1980 slalom gold Davos 1980 combination silver Davos 1980 Giant slalom silver Owen 1982 slalom silver Owen 1982 combination gold Gutenstein 1984 Giant slalom gold Gutenstein 1984 combination bronze Gutenstein 1984 slalom gold Petersfield 1986 Giant slalom silver Petersfield 1986 slalom silver Petersfield 1986 combination silver Gutenstein 1988 slalom silver Gutenstein 1988 combination bronze Gutenstein 1988 Giant slalom bronze Gutenstein 1988 Super G gold Vars 1990 slalom gold Vars 1990 Super G gold Faistenau 1992 slalom gold Faistenau 1992 Super G gold Faistenau 1992 combination silver Faistenau 1992 Giant slalom gold Kálnica 1994 slalom gold Kálnica 1994 Giant slalom gold Kálnica 1994 Super G gold Kálnica 1994 combination gold Forni di Sopra 1996 Giant slalom gold Forni di Sopra 1996 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2000  Overall World Cup 1. (2002-2009)
Placements in the European Cup
All European Cup 1. (1979–1982, 1984–1987, 1989, 1990, 1992–2000)
last change: October 20, 2012

Ingrid Hirschhofer (born November 30, 1963 in Schwarzensee , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian grass skier . In her 37-year career she has become 22-time world champion , 16-time European champion and 95-time Austrian champion . In addition, she has won the European Cup 19 times and the World Cup eight times , making her the most successful athlete in grass skiing. She was awarded the Silver Medal in 1996 and the Golden Medal of Honor in 2004 for services to the Republic of Austria .

Career

Hirschhofer grew up with two siblings in their parents' farm. At the age of almost twelve she first watched a grass ski race. The young Lower Austrian was immediately enthusiastic about this sport, which is why her parents gave her her first grass skis shortly afterwards. Soon coaches became aware of her great talent and in 1976 she began to practice the sport competitively. At the Junior European Championships in 1976 she won the titles in slalom and giant slalom and at the European Championships she won the bronze medal in giant slalom in the same year.

Hirschhofer at the Austrian championships 2010

In 1977 Hirschhofer was accepted into the Austrian national grass ski team. She completed her first full season in the European Cup and finished third overall. At the European Championship in 1978 she won the silver medal in the combination and bronze in the slalom. In the 1979 season, Hirschhofer won the European Cup overall ranking for the first time at the age of 15 and at the first grass ski world championship in 1979 in the US state of Virginia , she won two gold medals in slalom and combined. At the first Austrian championships she was able to win both competitions (slalom and giant slalom).

Hirschhofer was able to continue its winning streak in national and international competitions until the beginning of the 1990s. Until 1990 she was ten times world champion, seven times European champion and won the overall ranking in the European Cup ten times. In 1991, however, she was sidelined for the entire season due to a torn cruciate ligament . In the next year, however, the 28-year-old immediately returned to the top of the world. She won the European Cup again and was able to repeat this victory eight times in a row by 2000. At the 1992 European Championships in Faistenau , she won three gold medals in slalom, super-G and combined, as well as the silver medal in giant slalom. At the 1993 World Cup in Asiago , Italy , she even won all four competitions. She did the same a year later at the 1994 European Championships in Kálnica , Slovakia , where she also won all four gold medals. She won two more titles each at the 1995 World Cup and at the last European Championship held in 1996, increasing her overall EM balance to 16 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals. This was followed by two world championships without a title win. In 1997 she won three bronze medals in Müstair and three silver and one bronze medals in Gaal in 1999 . At the 2001 World Championships , she was twice at the top of the podium in slalom and the combination, making her 18-time world champion.

In the Grass Ski World Cup , which has been held since the 2000 season , Hirschhofer had to admit defeat to the Czech Sylva Lipčíková in the first two years and took second place overall. In 2002 she achieved her first overall victory in the World Cup, which she was able to defend seven times in a row until 2009. This streak of success did not end until the 2010 season . Hirschhofer made it onto the podium in eight of the eleven World Cup races, but remained without a win and fell back to third place behind the new overall winner Anna-Lena Büdenbender from Germany and the Japanese Yukiyo Shintani . In 2011 she achieved second place overall behind the Czech Zuzana Gardavská with one win and another six podium places . The 2012 season had Hirschhofer after two World Cup victories and three other podium finishes at halftime through injury exit. She had a bad fall while running in for the World Cup Super-G in San Sicario , suffered fractures of the ankle and the spoke and lost two teeth .

At the World Championships in Castione della Presolana in 2003 and Dizin in 2005 , Hirschhofer won two more gold medals each, making a total of 22 world championship titles. At the next major events, Hirschhofer remained untitled. At the 2007 World Championships in Olešnice , she won two silver and one bronze medals and at the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach , now at the age of 45, a bronze medal in the super combination. In 2011, two more bronze medals in slalom and super-G followed at the World Championships in Goldingen .

successes

World championships

• 43 medals (22 × gold, 9 × silver, 12 × bronze) in 16 world championships

European championships

• 30 medals (16 × gold, 9 × silver, 5 × bronze) in 12 European championships

World cup

• 8 × overall victory: 2002–2009
• 2nd overall: 2000, 2001 and 2011
• 3rd overall place: 2010

European Cup

• 19 × overall victory: 1979–1982, 1984–1987, 1989, 1990, 1992–2000
• 3rd overall: 1977

Austrian championships

• Hirschhofer won 95 Austrian championship titles from 1979 to 2012 : 26 × slalom, 28 × giant slalom, 18 × super-G, 7 × parallel slalom and 16 × combination

Awards

• Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria : 1996
• Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria : 2004

literature

• Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 153-154 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingrid Hirschhofer: The somewhat different skier , noe.orf.at
2. ↑ ÖSV winner table: Austrian medal winners at the Grasski European Championship 1976 ( memento of the original from March 5, 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. ↑ A horror fall and a gala performance. In: Ski Austria. Official journal of the Austrian Ski Association, issue 1 2012/13, p. 28.

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Hirschhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ingrid Hirschhofer in the database of the International Ski Association (English) - results only registered since 2004
• Ingrid Hirschhofer on the website of the ÖSV grass ski team