Ivan Heimschild

Ivan Heimschild
nation	Slovakia
birthday	March 5, 1980
place of birth	Martin
size	180 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, combination
society	ASK Dukla Banska Bystrica
status	not active
End of career	2008
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 9th of March 2000

Ivan Heimschild (born March 5, 1980 in Martin ) is a former Slovak ski racer .

Career

Heimschild contested his first FIS race in December 1995. By March 2008 he took part in almost 300 of these races and celebrated 16 victories. The Slovak first started in the European Cup on February 23, 1997. One day later he achieved his best result in the Krompachy slalom with 28th place. From March 2000 to December 2006 Heimschild took part in a total of 26 races in the World Cup, but never reached the points. His best result was 41st place in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on February 1, 2004.

Heimschild took part in 4 world championships from 2001 to 2007 in a total of 16 races and achieved 20th place in the slalom of Åre 2007 as the best result. In his two Olympic participations in 2002 in Salt Lake City and 2006 in Turin , his best result was a 24 Rank in the combination of Salt Lake City. From 1999 to 2007 Heimschild won six Slovak championship titles.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Salt Lake City 2002 : 24th combination, 28th super-G, 47th downhill
• Turin 2006 : 25th combination, 26th slalom, 46th Super-G

World championships

• St. Anton 2001 : 27th downhill, 28th slalom, 39th Super-G
• St. Moritz 2003 : 30th combination, 37th Super-G, 38th slalom, 41st descent
• Bormio 2005 : 37th slalom, 44th giant slalom, 51st Super-G
• Åre 2007 : 20th slalom, 27th super combination, 35th giant slalom, 36th super-G

Junior World Championships

• Megève 1998 : 37th slalom, 54th downhill, 70th giant slalom
• Pra Loup 1999 : 23rd Super-G, 37th slalom, 46th giant slalom, 54th descent
• Québec 2000 : 18th Super-G, 38th slalom, 45th downhill

European Cup

• a placement among the top 30

More Achievements

• 6-time Slovak champion:
  • Slalom: 2007
  • Giant slalom: 2000, 2006
  • Super-G: 2005, 2006
  • Departure: 1999
• 16 victories in FIS races (8 × slalom, 6 × giant slalom, 2 × Super-G)
• 3rd place in the Super-G at the Universiade 2003

Web links

• Ivan Heimschild in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ivan Heimschild in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Ivan Heimschild in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )