Karin Köllerer
Karin Köllerer 
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 Karin Köllerer in December 1998 |
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 Austria
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| birthday | 8th October 1970 (age 49) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kuchl , Austria | ||||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline |
Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination |
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| society | SC Kuchl | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | December 2001 | ||||||||||||
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Karin Köllerer (born October 8, 1970 in Kuchl , Land Salzburg ) is a former Austrian ski racer whose strongest discipline was the slalom . She reached four podium places in World Cup races , was fourth in the Slalom World Cup in the 2000/01 season and won the overall ranking of the European Cup in the 1994/95 season . At world championships two sixth places in 1999 and 2001 were her best results. The five-time Austrian champion is married to the former Norwegian ski racer Atle Skårdal .
biography
Köllerer skied for the first time at the age of two and came to the ski club in her home town of Kuchl as a five-year-old . In 1980 she was accepted into the Salzburg state squad and later into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association . 1987 Köllerer Salzburg became national champion in giant slalom and super-G. In 1988 she was used at the Junior World Championships in Madonna di Campiglio , where her best result was 13th place in the Super-G. In the same year she won her first of five Austrian championship titles (2 × combination and 3 × slalom). On January 6, 1989, the then 18-year-old made her debut in the World Cup in the giant slalom in Schwarzenberg . She finished 25th, but has not yet won any World Cup points, as these were only awarded to the best 15 until the end of the 1990/91 season (after that, to the best 30).
In addition to individual starts in the World Cup, the main focus was initially in the European Cup , where she won the Super-G classification in the 1989/90 season with a victory in Haus Im Ennstal . In December 1990 Köllerer won her first World Cup points when she finished 13th in the combination of Morzine . Towards the end of the 1990/91 season she reached her first top 10 result with tenth place in the slalom of Lake Louise . The giant slalom and especially the slalom increasingly became Köllerer's strongest disciplines. After further top 10 results, she achieved her first World Cup podium at the end of the 1992/93 season with second place in the Åre slalom . In the Slalom World Cup she finished ninth. Köllerer's rising form was ended in the next winter by a serious knee injury. She missed most of the 1993/94 season because of a torn cruciate ligament and collateral ligament as well as a meniscus damage.
From the comeback season 1994/95 Köllerer started in the World Cup only in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom. However, she initially remained without a countable result this winter and was only able to score again towards the end of the season. On the other hand, she reached four podium places in the 1994/95 European Cup , with which she won the European Cup and was third in the giant slalom classification. In the winter of 1995/96 , Köllerer again achieved two top 10 places in the World Cup (fifth in the slalom in St. Anton am Arlberg and ninth in the giant slalom in Veysonnaz ), which means that you qualify for the 1996 Spanish World Cup in both disciplines Sierra Nevada succeeded. There she finished ninth in the slalom, while she was eliminated in the giant slalom after the twelfth intermediate rank in the second round. At the next World Cup in 1997 in Sestriere , she was only used in the giant slalom, where she failed again in the second round after she had finished the first run in 26th place. In the World Cup, Köllerer remained without a top result in the 1996/97 and 1997/98 seasons . At the 1998 Winter Olympics she was not at the start.
For the first time in three years, Köllerer achieved top 10 placings in the World Cup in the 1998/99 season , which meant that they were able to improve significantly in all World Cup rankings compared to the two previous years. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail , she achieved sixth place as the best Austrian in slalom. In the giant slalom she was eliminated again - this time in the first round. Köllerer was able to improve further in the winter of 1999/2000 when, on December 29, 1999, with third place in the Lienz slalom, she achieved the second World Cup podium of her career - more than six and a half years after her first podium. For the second time after 1992/93 she came eighth again among the top ten in the Slalom World Cup. The 2000/01 World Cup season went even better . Köllerer achieved second place in the Flachau slalom and third place in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen slalom , drove two more times under the fastest five and came fourth in the Slalom World Cup. This also made her one of the potential medal candidates in the 2001 World Championship slalom in St. Anton. After finishing third in the first run, she finally finished sixth, just like two years earlier.
At the end of December 2001, Köllerer announced her retirement from ski racing. She was pregnant with her first son, and two more children followed over the next few years. Her husband is the former Norwegian ski racer and later FIS women's race director Atle Skårdal , with whom she lives in Oberalm . In the mid-2000s, Köllerer graduated from the University of Salzburg with a degree in sports journalism . She has been the Technical Delegate of the FIS since 2008.
successes
World championships
- Sierra Nevada 1996 : 9th slalom
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 6th slalom
- St. Anton 2001 : 6th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Madonna di Campiglio 1988 : 13th Super-G, 16th downhill, 20th giant slalom
World cup
- 1992/93 season : 9th Slalom World Cup
- 1999/00 season : 8th Slalom World Cup
- 2000/01 season : 4th Slalom World Cup
- 4 podium places and another 23 top 10 placements
European Cup
- 1989/90 season : 1st Super-G classification
- 1992/93 season : 5th overall ranking, 4th slalom ranking
- 1994/95 season : 1st overall ranking, 3rd giant slalom ranking
- 1997/98 season : 5th overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking
- 18 podium places, including 4 wins:
| season | place | country | discipline |
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| 1989/90 | House in the Ennstal | Austria | Super G |
| 1990/91 | Vercors | France | Giant slalom |
| 1992/93 | Berchtesgaden | Germany | slalom |
| 1997/98 | Miss | Germany | slalom |
Austrian championships
Five-time Austrian Champion :
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 211-212.
- Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , pp. 155–156.
Web links
- Karin Köllerer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Karin Köllerer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , p. 337.
- ↑ Fascinating: Mother and Technical Delegate. In: Ski Austria Lady. Official magazine of the Austrian Ski Association. No. 13, December 2010, p. 4.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Köllerer, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuchl , Austria |