Isolde Kostner

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Isolde Kostner Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 20th March 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Bolzano , Italy
size 171 cm
Weight 66 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , combination
society GS Fiamme Gialle
status resigned
End of career December 18, 2005
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Lillehammer 1994 Departure
bronze Lillehammer 1994 Super G
silver Salt Lake City 2002 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Sierra Nevada 1996 Super G
gold Sestriere 1997 Super G
silver St. Anton 2001 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Monte Campione 1993 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 28, 1993
 Individual world cup victories 15th
 Overall World Cup 4. ( 1995/96 , 1999/2000 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 )
 Super G World Cup 3. ( 1997/98 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 11. (1995/96)
 Combination World Cup 11. (1999/2000)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 12 13 10
 Super G 3 5 7th
 Giant slalom 0 0 1
 

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

World championships

World Cup ratings

Isolde Kostner won the downhill discipline twice.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
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
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

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Offspring on the move - Olympia without Isolde Kostner , Handelsblatt , January 10, 2006