Juan Del Campo

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Juan Del Campo Alpine skiing
nation SpainSpain Spain
birthday 28th June 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Bilbao ,  Spain
size 180 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom
society EURO SKI
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut October 25, 2015
last change: February 17, 2018

Juan Del Campo (born June 28, 1994 in Bilbao , Basque Country ) is a Spanish ski racer . The two-time Spanish champion specializes in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .

biography

Juan Del Campo comes from the city of Mungia in the province of Bizkaia in northern Spain. His parents taught him how to ski at the age of three in the Baqueira-Beret Pyrenees ski area , where he joined the Club d'Esquí Val d'Aran.

When he was 15, he competed in his first FIS race in Spain and France . At his first Junior World Championship in Crans-Montana , he ended up in the last quarter of the classification in downhill , super-G and giant slalom, but in three further competitions he still achieved 24th place in giant slalom ( Jasná 2014 ) and 29th place in slalom ( Hafjell 2015 ) Top performances. In addition, he started at two winter Universiades , but did not get beyond a 31st place in the Super-G ( Trentino 2013 ). In January 2015 he made his European Cup debut in the Chamonix slalom . He achieved his best result so far in December 2016 with a shared ninth place in the parallel slalom on the Kronplatz .

On October 25, 2015, he made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Sölden . At the end of the season he was crowned Spanish champion in his favorite discipline, slalom, for the first time in Formigal . In January 2017 in Kitzbühel he missed qualifying for the second run by only 19 hundredths of a second and with 33rd place marked the best result for a male Spaniard since 1986. At his first World Championship in St. Moritz , he qualified for both giant slalom and slalom, whereby he left Ivica Kostelić behind, among others . He finished the giant slalom in 35th place, in the slalom he was eliminated.

The following winter he qualified for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and celebrated his first two wins in the Far East Cup in South Korea . At the games he could not follow these results and was eliminated in both giant slalom and slalom. In January 2019, he qualified for a second run at the Nightrace in Schladming for the first time, which he finished in 24th place. However, due to a serious mistake, he was too late to win points.

successes

World championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

South American Cup

  • Season 2016: 6th slalom ranking
  • Season 2019 : 2nd slalom ranking
  • 3 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
August 8, 2019 Cerro Catedral Argentina slalom
August 12, 2019 El Bolson Argentina slalom

Far East Cup

  • 3 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
January 11, 2018 High1 Resort South Korea slalom
January 16, 2018 High1 Resort South Korea slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 2 Spanish championship titles (Super-G 2015, Slalom 2016)
  • Victory at the Andorran Giant Slalom Championships in 2013
  • 1 podium in the South American Cup
  • 5 victories in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan del Campo - Bio. Basque Team, accessed February 3, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Igor G. Vico: El niño que no seguía la línea recta. Deia - Noticias de Bizkaia, October 25, 2015, accessed February 3, 2018 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Neither exotic nor world class: A visit to the ski world in between. Aargauer Zeitung , February 20, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Del Campo, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao