Katharina Gutensohn

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Katharina Gutensohn Alpine Freestyle
Katharina Gutensohn (2013)
nation AustriaAustria Austria (Alpine skiing, freestyle) Germany (Alpine skiing 1989–1998)
GermanyGermany 
birthday 22nd March 1966 (age 54)
place of birth Kirchberg in Tirol , Austria
size 172 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
discipline Alpine skiing ( Downhill , Super-G )
Freestyle skiing ( Skicross )
society SK Kirchberg
status resigned
End of career February 16, 1998 (Alpine skiing)
February 25, 2010 (Freestyle skiing)
Medal table
Alpine World Ski Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Alpine Ski JWM 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Bormio 1985 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Sestriere 1983 combination
bronze Sestriere 1983 Departure
FISPlacements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Debut in the World Cup 17th December 1982
World Cup victories 8th
Overall World Cup 11. ( 1985/86 , 1990/91 )
Downhill World Cup 1. ( 1989/90 )
Super G World Cup 9. ( 1996/97 , 1997/98 )
Giant Slalom World Cup 45th ( 1994/95 )
Combination World Cup 10. (1985/86)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 8th 5 3
 Super G 0 0 2
FISPlacements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup

Debut in the World Cup March 5, 2005
World Cup victories 2
Overall World Cup 9th ( 2008/09 )
Ski cross world cup 2. (2008/09)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Ski cross 2 2 1
 

Katharina Anna Gutensohn (also: Katrin or Kathrin, born March 22, 1966 in Kirchberg in Tirol ; married Katharina Gutensohn-Knopf ) is a former Austrian ski crosser and Austrian- German alpine ski racer . Her greatest successes in alpine ski racing include the silver medal in downhill skiing at the World Championships in Bormio in 1985 and winning the Downhill World Cup in 1990.
Gutensohn won eight downhill races in the Ski World Cup, was two-time Austrian champion in this discipline and competed four times at the Olympic Winter Games (1992 , 1994, 1998, 2010). In the Freestyle Skiing World Cup, she won two ski cross races.

biography

Alpine skiing until 1989

Gutensohn grew up in Kirchberg in Tirol and graduated from the ski trade school in Stams . Brigitte Schroll trained at the Kirchberg Ski Club . On December 17, 1982, at the age of 16, she started the World Cup for the first time in a slalom in Piancavallo . With start number 66, she reached 25th place. The first World Cup points followed in the combination of Piancavallo with seventh place. At the Junior World Championships in 1983 in Sestriere , she won the silver medal in the combination and the bronze medal in the downhill .

In the 1984/85 season Gutensohn reached her first podium in the World Cup with third place in the downhill from Santa Caterina . She celebrated her greatest success at the World Championships in Bormio in February 1985 : The then 19-year-old won the silver medal in the downhill run behind the Swiss Michela Figini , at the same time as her compatriot Ariane Ehrat . At the end of the season, on March 2, 1985, she finally crowned the successful season with her first World Cup victory in the downhill from Vail . In the following season she won another three downhill runs and was second in the Downhill World Cup with 110 points, beaten by Maria Walliser with 5 points . On January 25, 1987, she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in training and had to end the season prematurely (could not take part in the World Cup), followed by results in the top ten, but no podium finishes.

Start for Germany since 1989

After the World Cup was not included in Vail, she moved to the 1988/89 season for the German Ski Association . Since she was married to a German, changing associations was not a problem for Katharina Gutensohn-Knopf. In her first season at DSV, she won two runs within two days in Veysonnaz , achieved second place once and four more results in the top ten and won the Downhill World Cup ahead of Petra Kronberger . In the following winter of 1990/91 she was able to win two more downhill runs, but at the world championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm it was only eighth in the downhill. In the Super-G three days later, she fell badly and tore a cruciate ligament again.

In her comeback season, she reached second place in the downhill and sixth at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . In the following winter Gutensohn was injured again: On January 15, 1993, she fell on the descent from Cortina d'Ampezzo and tore the cruciate and inner ligament in her right knee. In the next few seasons, after the injury and a change of ski brand, she could no longer match her previous top results. In 1994 she reached third place in the Super-G and a few places in the top ten. At the 1996 World Cup in Sierra Nevada , she was seventh in the Super-G and 15th in the downhill. A year later at the World Championships in Sestriere , she reached fifth place in the Super-G and ninth in the downhill.

In her last World Cup season in 1997/98 , she made it onto the podium twice. After the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , where she was ninth in the downhill, she ended her career in the Alpine Ski World Cup at the age of 31.

She then competed in races in the Carving World Cup from 1998 to 2000 and was a co-commentator at the women's world cup races on ORF .

Freestyle skiing since 2003

From 2003 Gutensohn competed in various ski cross races in the USA , and in December 2004 she won a race in the Jeep King of the Mountain series. From 2005 she was part of the Austrian ski cross team. On March 5, 2005, she started the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in the ski cross discipline and won her first race in Grindelwald .

At the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Ruka in 2005 she was eleventh, in 2007 in Madonna di Campiglio 17th and in 2009 in Inawashiro 21st. In the 2008/09 World Cup season , she won the ski cross race in Meiringen - Hasliberg and finished second twice on the podium . In the Ski Cross World Cup, she finished second behind Ophélie David .

After Gutensohn finished 26th at the 2010 Winter Olympics in ski cross, she announced her final retirement from top-class sport on February 25, 2010.

At the beginning of 2013 she was on ORF in the eighth season of Dancing Stars .

Private

Gutensohn is the mother of three children, and she also completed a degree in sports journalism.

Successes in alpine skiing

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

  • Sestriere 1983 : 2nd combination, 3rd descent, 11th giant slalom, 11th slalom

World Cup ratings

Katharina Gutensohn once won the downhill discipline.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1982/83 47. 21st 34. 3 - - - - 13. 18th
1983/84 52. 18th 23. 10 - - - - 24. 8th
1984/85 22nd 59 6th 63 - - - - - -
1985/86 11. 145 2. 110 20th 12 - - 10. 23
1986/87 42. 21st 17th 21st - - - - - -
1987/88 33. 37 13. 36 29 1 - - - -
1988/89 37. 27 14th 25th 29 2 - - - -
1989/90 12. 114 1. 110 25th 4th - - - -
1990/91 11. 87 6th 72 17th 15th - - - -
1991/92 30th 281 10. 209 26th 72 - - - -
1992/93 45. 156 23. 130 32. 26th - - - -
1993/94 41. 189 29 53 14th 136 - - - -
1994/95 42. 152 36. 31 18th 108 45. 13 - -
1995/96 27. 296 16. 129 13. 157 46. 10 - -
1996/97 18th 382 11. 207 9. 170 51. 5 - -
1997/98 23. 288 14th 130 9. 152 - - - -

World Cup victories

Gutensohn achieved 18 podiums, including 8 wins:

date place country discipline
March 2, 1985 Vail United States Departure
January 10, 1986 Bad Gastein Austria Departure
January 16, 1986 Puy-Saint-Vincent France Departure
February 2, 1986 Crans-Montana Switzerland Departure
3rd February 1990 Veysonnaz Switzerland Departure
4th February 1990 Veysonnaz Switzerland Departure
December 8, 1990 Altenmarkt Austria Departure
January 6, 1991 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria Departure

Austrian championships

Success in freestyle skiing

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • Season 2008/09 : 9th overall ranking, 2nd ski cross
  • 5 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
March 5, 2005 Grindelwald Switzerland Ski cross
March 14, 2009 Meiringen - Hasliberg Switzerland Ski cross

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When athletes change their names. In: kurier.at. April 26, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Katrin Gutensohn declares resignation. Der Standard , February 25, 2010, accessed February 25, 2010 .
  3. ^ Tyrolean Katharina Gutensohn among the new "Dancing Stars". In: tt.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Good son, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutensohn, Katharina Anna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German skier (alpine skiing and freestyle)
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg in Tyrol