Joachim Puchner

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Joachim Puchner Alpine skiing
Joachim Puchner, on the right next to Mario Matt and Hannes Reichelt (Lackenhof 2009)
Joachim Puchner (right) at the Austrian championships 2009
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 25th September 1987 (age 32)
place of birth Vöcklabruck , Austria
size 190 cm
Weight 97 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom ,
combination
society WSV St. Johann
status resigned
End of career 3rd April 2017
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Altenmarkt 2007 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 16, 2009
 Overall World Cup 21st ( 2011/12 )
 Downhill World Cup 12. (2011/2012)
 Super G World Cup 8. ( 2012/13 )
 Combination World Cup 24. (2012/13)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 0
 Super G 0 0 2
 

Joachim Puchner (born September 25, 1987 in Vöcklabruck ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He specialized in the fast downhill and Super-G disciplines and was a member of the national team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) from 2011 . Puchner was Vice Junior World Champion in Super-G in 2007 , Austrian State Champion in Combined in 2010 and achieved the first podium places in the World Cup in 2011 . His sister Mirjam Puchner is also a ski racer.

biography

Puchner was born in Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria and moved with his family at the age of one to St. Johann im Pongau in the province of Salzburg . He skied for the first time in 1990 and competed in the first children's race the following year. Puchner graduated from the secondary school in St. Johann and began studying business administration at the Institute for Management in Hallwang in autumn 2010 . After his first successes in school races, he was accepted into the Salzburg youth squad at the age of 14 and two years later into the junior squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). After another three years, he was promoted to the European Cup team and in 2009 to the A-team. He has been a member of the national team since 2011.

After reaching the age limit, Puchner drove his first FIS races in December 2002 . The first European Cup start followed in January 2004, from 2007 he was regularly in the European Cup. In 2006 he took part in the Junior World Championship in the Canadian province of Québec and achieved eighth place in the giant slalom as the best result. A year later he won the silver medal in the Super-G behind the Swiss Beat Feuz at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . He was also ninth in the downhill and in the giant slalom.

In the European Cup, Puchner managed to catch up with the top in the 2008/09 season : On December 4, he made it onto the podium for the first time in the Super-G on the Reiteralm and, in the further course of the season, achieved, among other things, two fourth places in the downhill runs from Les Orres and Sarntal / Reinswald . This put him in seventh place in the downhill and super-G class as well as eleventh in the overall classification. On January 16, 2009, Puchner contested his first World Cup race , but, like at his next three World Cup starts this winter, did not yet make it into the points. At the end of the season he was third in the giant slalom at the Austrian Championships in 2009, behind the established World Cup runners Hannes Reichelt and Mario Matt .

On December 4th, 2009, Puchner won his first World Cup points with 20th place in the super combined at Beaver Creek . He had to contest the descent a second time because he was waved off after the fall of the Canadian Louis-Pierre Hélie , who had started before him . On March 5th, 2010 he celebrated his first victory in the European Cup in the Super-G of Sarntal / Reinswald . He achieved second place in the Super-G ranking in the 2009/10 season . With a total of eight top 10 results, he also achieved fifth place in the overall ranking and sixth in the downhill and super combination rankings. At the end of the season he was Austrian national champion in the super combined.

Towards the end of the 2010/11 season , Puchner made it to the top of the world. After a 16th place, achieved in the classic combination of Kitzbühel in January 2010, which was his best result in the World Cup so far, he finished fourth on January 29, 2011 in the Downhill from Chamonix . On March 13, 2011 he achieved his first podium finish with third place in the Super-G of Kvitfjell , and three days later with a second place in the downhill at the World Cup final in Lenzerheide the second. This winter, Puchner was also nominated for a major event for the first time, the 2011 World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He was only used there in the super combination, in which he finished twelfth. In the 2011/12 World Cup season there were no podium places (the best result was a fourth place in the downhill from Kitzbühel), but Puchner drove a total of ten times under the top ten in the downhill and super-G disciplines, making him face-to-face in the World Cup rankings could improve by up to ten places over the previous year.

After the end of the World Cup season, Puchner fell during downhill training at the Austrian Championships in March 2012 , where he suffered a debris fracture in his right ankle . Although he then had to take a break for several weeks and could not complete any snow training until August, at the beginning of the next season 2012/13 he reached third place in the Super-G of Lake Louise and thus his third World Cup podium. In the further course of the winter he was twice in the top ten. In the 2013/14 season, eighth place remained his best World Cup result. Due to unsatisfactory results at the beginning of the 2014/15 season, Puchner was increasingly used in the European Cup; with a win and a second place he secured the downhill classification. On April 3, 2017, he announced his retirement from active racing after several injuries.

successes

World championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 19 placements among the top ten, including 3 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2009/10 88 53 52. 7th - - 25th 46.
2010/11 29 283 15th 173 21st 81 28. 29
2011/12 21st 506 12. 270 11. 204 25th 32
2012/13 24. 278 18th 114 8th. 154 24. 10
2013/14 57. 109 36. 30th 23. 79 - -
2014/15 90. 54 - - 28. 49 38. 5

European Cup

  • 2008/09 season : 7th downhill classification, 7th Super-G classification
  • Season 2009/10 : 5th overall ranking, 2nd super-G, 6th downhill, 6th super combination
  • 2014/15 season : 1st downhill classification
  • 9 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
March 5, 2010 Sarntal / Reinswald Italy Super G
January 15, 2015 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Departure
22nd February 2017 Sarntal / Reinswald Italy Departure

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Joachim Puchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ski racer Puchner resigns. ORF , April 3, 2017, accessed on April 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Puchner, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck , Austria