Jacob rest

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Jacob rest Grass ski
Jakob Rest in the Rettenbach World Cup Slalom in July 2011
Jakob Rest in July 2011
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday January 23, 1991
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
super-G , combination
society Friends of nature Vienna
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 4 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
FIS Grass ski world championships
silver Goldingen 2011 slalom
FIS Grass ski junior world championships
silver Welschnofen 2007 Super combo
bronze Welschnofen 2007 Super G
bronze Vineyards 2008 slalom
gold Horní Lhota 2009 slalom
bronze Horní Lhota 2009 Super combo
gold Dizin 2010 Giant slalom
gold Dizin 2010 Super combo
gold Goldingen 2011 Giant slalom
silver Goldingen 2011 Super G
FIS logo Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup August 19, 2006
 Overall World Cup 6. ( 2008 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 2 0
last change: October 20, 2012

Jakob Rest (born January 23, 1991 ) is an Austrian grass skier . He is a member of the A-team of the Austrian Ski Association , is a four-time junior world champion , was runner-up in slalom world champion in 2011 and has made two podiums in the World Cup so far.

Career

Jakob Rest at Sports Day 2009

Jakob Rest contested his first FIS races in May 2006. In July he took part in the Junior World Championship in Horní Lhota u Ostravy in the Czech Republic , finishing ninth in the slalom and giant slalom, as well as eleventh in the combination and 20th in the super G. On August 19th, Rest drove his first World Cup race . In the giant slalom in České Petrovice he finished 28th rank, the next day he came in slalom already in 14th place at the World Cup finals in Forni di Sopra he went three more times in the top 20, which he in the overall standings of the 2006 season, the 23 Reached place. At the beginning of the 2007 World Cup season , Rest achieved his first top 10 placements. In Dizin he was ninth in the giant slalom and eighth in the Super-G. In the last World Cup race of the year, the Super Combined in Rettenbach , he was also among the top ten, which improved him to eleventh place in the overall standings. Rest also performed well at the Junior World Championships in August 2007 in Welschnofen . He won the silver medal in the super combined and bronze in the super G. A month later he also took part in the 2007 World Cup in Olešnice v Orlických horách . Here his best result by far was the 16th place in the slalom, in the other competitions he did not make it into the top 30.

On July 6, 2008, the then 17-year-old made it onto the podium for the first time in a World Cup race. With the fastest time in the second round, he finished second in the Čenkovice slalom behind the Czech Martin Štěpánek . In the overall ranking of the 2008 season he reached sixth place with another five top 10 results. At the Junior World Championships in 2008 Rest won the bronze medal in slalom. In the giant slalom he only missed a second medal by three hundredths of a second. In the 2009 World Cup season , Rest reached his second podium with second place in Maria Gugging's slalom on August 30th. Overall, he was eight times among the top ten, which he finished seventh in the overall standings. At the 2009 Junior World Championship , Rest won his first title. He won the slalom ahead of the Czech Jan Gardavský and the Slovak Timotej Oravec , although he had a serious fall during giant slalom training the day before. In the super combined he won the bronze medal and in the super G he was fourth. At the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach, Rest was among the fastest 17 in all competitions, his best results were fifth in slalom and tenth in super combined.

In April 2010 Jakob Rest broke his hand, which is why he was only able to take part in the race from July. At the beginning of August he won the giant slalom and the super combined at the junior world championships in Dizin and was fifth in the super G; only in the slalom did he not finish. In the World Cup he lagged behind the results of the last two years. In Dizin he achieved his best result of the season with sixth place in the giant slalom, after which he was twice in the top ten and was 16th in the overall World Cup. In the 2011 World Cup season , Rest drove into the top 10 four times, making him eleventh in the overall World Cup. His greatest success so far was at the 2011 World Championships in Goldingen , when he won the silver medal in slalom, eleven hundredths of a second behind the Swiss Domenic Senn . He was also twelfth in the Super-G. He was also successful in the Junior World Championship, which was held at the same time . He won the giant slalom ahead of the Czech Lukáš Kolouch and thus his fourth junior world championship title and was second behind Kolouch in the Super-G. At national level he won his first national title in 2011 in slalom. In the 2012 season , Rest only took part in the two World Cup slaloms in Trieste , where he finished ninth and eighth.

successes

World championships

Junior World Championships

  • Horní Lhota 2006 : 9th slalom, 9th giant slalom, 11th combination, 20th super-G
  • Welschnofen 2007 : 2nd super combination, 3rd super G, 7th slalom, 8th giant slalom
  • Rieden 2008 : 3rd slalom, 4th giant slalom, 8th Super-G
  • Horní Lhota 2009 : 1st slalom, 3rd super combination, 4th super G
  • Dizin 2010 : 1st giant slalom, 1st super combination, 5th super G
  • Goldingen 2011 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd super-G, 6th combination, 7th slalom

World cup

Austrian championships

Web links

Commons : Jakob Rest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Rest Junior World Champion . Vienna Ski Association, accessed on September 25, 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.noen.at/redaktion/n-tul/article.asp?Text=347104&cat=321 phoned Link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04-16 18:44:47 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www.noen.at/redaktion/n-tul/article.asp? Text = 347104 & cat = 321}} The rest gets WM double gold. Niederösterreichische Nachrichten , August 2010, accessed on September 16, 2010 (link no longer available)
personal data
SURNAME Rest, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian grass skier
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1991