Isolde Kostner
Isolde Kostner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 20th March 1975 (age 45) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Bolzano , Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 171 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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society | GS Fiamme Gialle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | December 18, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Isolde Kostner (born March 20, 1975 in Bolzano , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian ski racer and the most successful athlete from Val Gardena to date . At the turn of the millennium, the South Tyrolean was one of the best athletes in the downhill and super-G disciplines . She won three Olympic medals, was twice world champion and twice won the downhill classification of the Ski World Cup . In her career she achieved 15 victories (12 downhill runs, 3 Super-G) and 51 podiums in World Cup races. Figure skater Carolina Kostner is a second-degree niece.
biography
Father Ulrich Kostner was a professional ice hockey player at HC Gröden , which is why daughter Isolde often played with her two brothers during her childhood. However, her talent for skiing soon became apparent. At the age of 16 she was accepted into the C-squad of the Italian Ski Federation and began to compete in FIS races . At the Junior World Championships in 1993 Kostner won the gold medal in the Super-G and was then able to transfer directly to the national team. She made her first appearance in the World Cup on December 4, 1993, in the downhill in Tignes she finished 11th and immediately scored World Cup points.
On January 29, 1994, Kostner surprisingly (start number 35) won the downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ; However, this success was overshadowed by the accidental death of Austrian Ulrike Maier during the race. At the following Winter Olympics in 1994 she won a bronze medal in Kvitfjell in the downhill and in the Super-G. She finished her first World Cup season in fourth place in the downhill classification. In the following 1994/95 season she did not succeed in winning, but she was able to confirm her achievements with three podium places and fifth place in the Downhill World Cup.
Three weeks after the second downhill win on the "Tofana" in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Kostner won the Super-G at the 1996 World Cup in the Sierra Nevada and won her first world title. There were also two sixth places in the downhill and giant slalom . She was able to successfully defend the Super-G world championship title at the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere , and as fourth in the downhill she narrowly missed another medal. After another victory in Cortina, Kostner was one of the most popular favorites to win a medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , but an eleventh place in the downhill remained her best result.
Kostner tried to compensate for her weaknesses on technically demanding routes through more giant slalom training, because she hoped that this would give her a chance to win the overall World Cup. But this training was at the expense of her skills on flat sliding passages, so that she could not win in the 1998/99 season and again remained without a medal at the 1999 World Championships in Vail . Before the 1999/2000 season there were disputes with the association, whereby Kostner was able to enforce her demand for a private trainer. As a result, you get four victories.
At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton , she missed a third world championship title (also in the same discipline, the Super-G); In the end, she was only six hundredths of a second missing, which meant that she won the silver medal behind Régine Cavagnoud . She ended the 2000/01 World Cup season with three wins and first place in the downhill classification. In the 2001/02 World Cup season, Kostner again proved to be the world's best downhill skier. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Kostner was the flag bearer of the Italian team during the opening ceremony, in the downhill she won another silver medal. Her two victories in the downhill discipline classification were the first ever for the Italian Ski Association in this discipline (the men didn't have a winner here either; Peter Fill only managed to close this gap in 2015/16 ).
During downhill training in Lake Louise in December 2002, Kostner fell and sustained a shoulder injury. As a result, she had to take a break for several weeks and was unable to build on her previous performance. The following 2003/04 season began just as badly, but then on January 31, 2004 she won the downhill run from Haus im Ennstal ; it should be her last though. She ended the 2004/05 season with a single podium.
On January 10, 2006, Kostner announced his immediate retirement from top-class sport, citing pregnancy as the reason. Their son was born on July 9, 2006. Three months later she married Werner Perathoner, whom she had met five years earlier. Today, the trained barrel painter and her husband run his hotel garni Soraiser in Selva .
successes
Olympic games
- Lillehammer 1994 : 3rd downhill, 3rd super-G
- Nagano 1998 : 11th Super-G
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 2nd Downhill, 13th Super-G
World championships
- Sierra Nevada 1996 : 1st Super-G, 6th Downhill, 6th Giant Slalom
- Sestriere 1997 : 1st Super-G, 4th downhill, 7th giant slalom
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 6th Super-G, 9th Downhill
- St. Anton 2001 : 2nd Super-G, 5th Downhill
- St. Moritz 2003 : 9th downhill, 18th super-G
- Santa Caterina 2005 : 5th Super-G, 10th Downhill
World Cup ratings
Isolde Kostner won the downhill discipline twice.
season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | combination | |||||
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space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
1993/94 | 19th | 340 | 4th | 230 | 16. | 110 | - | - | - | - |
1994/95 | 20th | 390 | 5. | 310 | 32. | 53 | 33. | 27 | - | - |
1995/96 | 4th | 905 | 3. | 449 | 4th | 291 | 11. | 165 | - | - |
1996/97 | 5. | 833 | 6th | 365 | 4th | 355 | 16. | 113 | - | - |
1997/98 | 8th. | 695 | 3. | 292 | 3. | 266 | 21st | 79 | - | - |
1998/99 | 14th | 532 | 5. | 371 | 14th | 152 | 50. | 9 | - | - |
1999/00 | 4th | 878 | 3. | 484 | 5. | 300 | 32. | 70 | 11. | 24 |
2000/01 | 6th | 895 | 1. | 596 | 6th | 281 | 41. | 18th | - | - |
2001/02 | 6th | 641 | 1. | 568 | 27. | 38 | 38. | 35 | - | - |
2002/03 | 35. | 195 | 19th | 89 | 17th | 106 | - | - | - | - |
2003/04 | 15th | 449 | 4th | 348 | 23. | 89 | 46. | 12 | - | - |
2004/05 | 21st | 289 | 14th | 150 | 14th | 133 | - | - | 25th | 6th |
2005/06 | 83. | 37 | 48. | 20th | 41. | 17th | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
date | place | country | discipline |
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January 29, 1994 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | Departure |
January 20, 1996 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Departure |
January 23, 1997 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Departure |
January 25, 1997 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Super G |
January 22, 1998 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Departure |
November 27, 1999 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
December 8, 1999 | Val d'Isère | France | Super G |
December 17, 1999 | St. Moritz | Switzerland | Departure |
February 10, 2000 | Santa Caterina | Italy | Departure |
December 1, 2000 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
January 19, 2001 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Departure |
February 25, 2001 | Lenzerheide | Switzerland | Super G |
November 29, 2001 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
November 30, 2001 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
January 31, 2004 | House in the Ennstal | Austria | Departure |
Junior World Championship
- Maribor 1992 : 7th Super-G, 9th giant slalom, 13th descent
- Monte Campione 1993 : 1st Super-G, 6th combination, 8th giant slalom, 25th slalom
Italian championships
Isolde Kostner is twelve-time Italian champion :
- Super-G (7): 1992, 1995-2000
- Departure (4): 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999
- Giant Slalom (1): 1996
source
- International sports archive , issue 49/2004 ( Munzinger archive )
Web links
- Isolde Kostner in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Isolde Kostner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Isolde Kostner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait on ski2b.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Offspring on the move - Olympia without Isolde Kostner , Handelsblatt , January 10, 2006
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kostner, Isolde |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |