Katja Seizinger

Katja Seizinger
nation	Germany
birthday	10th May 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Datteln , Germany
size	171 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Half-timbered ski club
National squad	since 1989
status	resigned
End of career	April 23, 1999
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 0 × 2 × World championships 1 × 3 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Albertville 1992 Super G gold Lillehammer 1994 Departure gold Nagano 1998 Departure gold Nagano 1998 combination bronze Nagano 1998 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Morioka 1993 Super G silver Sierra Nevada 1996 Departure silver Sestriere 1997 Super G silver Sestriere 1997 combination  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships silver Alyeska 1989 Super G bronze Alyeska 1989 Giant slalom gold Zinal 1990 Super G silver Zinal 1990 Giant slalom silver Zinal 1990 Departure silver Zinal 1990 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut November 24, 1989  Individual world cup victories 36  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1995/96 , 1997/98 )  Downhill World Cup 1. ( 1991/92 - 1993/94 , 1997/98)  Super G World Cup 1. ( 1992 /93-1995/96, 1997/98)  Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (1995/96, 1996/97 )  Slalom World Cup 12. (1997/98)  Combination World Cup 2. (1997/98)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 16 8th 8th  Super G 16 8th 3  Giant slalom 4th 4th 6th  slalom 0 0 1  combination 0 1 1

Katja Seizinger (now Katja Weber ) (born May 10, 1972 in Datteln , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a former German ski racer . Their ski club was the SC Halch in Ostallgäu . With 36 World Cup victories , she is one of the most successful athletes in World Cup history and the best German ahead of Maria Höfl-Riesch . She is a three-time Olympic champion , won a world championship and won the overall World Cup twice . Added to this is the nine-time win of a World Cup discipline and a junior world championship. Seizinger was voted German Sportswoman of the Year three times (1994, 1996, 1998).

biography

Sports career

Katja Seizinger learned to ski in the Odenwald on Katzenbuckel , a mountain near where she lived at the time, Eberbach . She attended the boarding school in Hohenschwangau . In 1986 she won the Trofeo Topolino . Three years later Seizinger took part in the World Cup for the first time and finished in 44th place in the end. In 1990 she reached second place in the Super-G. In 1991 she was fifth in both the downhill and the combined at the World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , Austria . In the same year she won her first World Cup race, the Super-G in Santa Caterina Valfurva , Italy.

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , she won the bronze medal in the Super-G. She also won the Downhill World Cup that year. In 1993 she won the gold medal in Super G at the World Championships in Morioka , Japan . In 1994 she became an Olympic Downhill Champion at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Norway . She was also named Sportswoman of the Year for the first time .

At the 1996 World Cup in Sierra Nevada , she won the silver medal in the downhill and was overall World Cup winner in the same season . Katja Seizinger was again voted German Sportswoman of the Year this year. At the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere (Italy) she was second in the Super-G and in the combination.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Japan , she won the downhill gold medal again after 1994 and successfully defended her Olympic victory in an alpine speed discipline, which no one had ever achieved before ( Alberto Tomba had won the giant slalom in 1988 and 1992). She is also the first female alpine ski racer ever to successfully defend an Olympic title. She won her third Olympic gold medal the next day in combination. There was also a previously unattained German triple triumph: Martina Ertl was second and Hilde Gerg third. Katja Seizinger also won the bronze medal in the giant slalom in Nagano. She was also overall World Cup winner this season, won the individual World Cups in Downhill and Super-G and was voted Sportswoman of the Year for the third time. In addition, she is one of three racers (alongside Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin ) who managed to win three races within three days; Seizinger succeeded in doing this in December 1997 in Lake Louise, Canada .

Professional background

After a long period of injury, Katja Seizinger ended her career on April 23, 1999. Seizinger has been married to Kai-Uwe Weber since October 1, 1999 and has two children, a son and a daughter. After completing her degree in business administration at the Fernuniversität in Hagen with a diploma in 2000, she completed an internship in a Heidelberg tax office, for which she then worked for three years. Seizinger has been working for Südweststahl, her father's company, since 2003 and has been chairman of the supervisory board of Badische Stahlwerke and chairwoman of the supervisory board of Südweststahl AG since 2008 . In addition, shortly after the end of her skiing career, Seizinger appeared as an expert on television broadcasts of major winter sports events, for example the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .

successes

Olympic games

• Albertville 1992 : 3rd Super-G, 4th Downhill, 8th Giant Slalom
• Lillehammer 1994 : 1st departure
• Nagano 1998 : 1st downhill, 1st combined, 3rd giant slalom, 6th super-G

World championships

• Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 5th descent, 5th combination
• Morioka 1993 : 1st Super-G, 4th Downhill, 12th giant slalom
• Sierra Nevada 1996 : 2nd downhill, 5th giant slalom, 5th combination
• Sestriere 1997 : 2nd Super-G, 2nd combination, 5th downhill, 5th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

Katja Seizinger won the overall World Cup in 1996 and 1998, plus nine other victories in the disciplines.

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1989/90	44.	27	-	-	12.	25th	39.	1	-	-	21st	1
1990/91	15th	79	13.	34	4th	33	29	5	-	-	12.	7th
1991/92	3.	937	1.	523	3.	234	10.	180	-	-	-	-
1992/93	2.	1266	1.	604	1.	371	7th	234	58.	7th	7th	50
1993/94	3.	1195	1.	482	1.	416	6th	258	49.	13	19th	26th
1994/95	2.	1242	3.	445	1.	446	9.	206	19th	95	4th	50
1995/96	1.	1472	2.	485	1.	545	2.	410	39.	32	-	-
1996/97	2.	1424	5.	405	2.	474	2.	420	19th	125	-	-
1997/98	1.	1655	1.	520	1.	445	6th	295	12.	193	2.	140

World Cup victories

Katja Seizinger achieved a total of 76 podium places, of which 36 wins (16 × downhill, 16 × super-G, 4 × giant slalom):

Departure date place country January 11, 1992 Schruns Austria January 25, 1992 Morzine France March 7, 1992 Vail United States January 15, 1993 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy February 26, 1993 Veysonnaz Switzerland March 3, 1993 Morzine France January 14, 1994 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy March 6, 1994 Whistler Canada March 16, 1994 Vail United States December 15, 1995 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria February 3, 1996 Val d'Isère France November 30, 1996 Lake Louise Canada 4th December 1997 Lake Louise Canada 5th December 1997 Lake Louise Canada December 17, 1997 Val d'Isère France January 31, 1998 Are Sweden Giant slalom date place country March 20, 1993 Vemdalen Sweden January 6, 1996 Maribor Slovenia March 9, 1996 Hafjell Norway October 26, 1996 Soelden Austria

Super G date place country December 7, 1991 Santa Caterina Italy December 20, 1992 Lake Louise Canada March 20, 1993 Are Sweden January 15, 1994 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy March 9, 1994 Mammoth Mountain United States December 11, 1994 Lake Louise Canada March 19, 1995 Bormio Italy January 13, 1996 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany February 2, 1996 Val d'Isère France 4th February 1996 Val d'Isère France March 7, 1997 Mammoth Mountain United States March 13, 1997 Vail United States November 29, 1997 Mammoth Mountain United States December 6, 1997 Lake Louise Canada December 18, 1997 Val d'Isère France January 24, 1998 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy

Junior World Championships

• Alyeska 1989 : 2nd Super-G, 3rd giant slalom
• Zinal 1990 : 1st Super-G, 2nd descent, 2nd giant slalom, 2nd combination, 16th slalom

German championships

Seizinger was three times German champion :

• 2 × Super-G (1989 and 1996)
• 1 × giant slalom (1998)

Awards

• German athlete of the year 1994, 1996 and 1998
• Inclusion in the Hall of Fame of German Sports 2018

Web links

Commons : Katja Seizinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Katja Seizinger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Katja Seizinger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Katja Seizinger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Seeger : Ski World Cup Guide 97.Biorama, Basel 1996, p. 182.
2. ↑ Sebastian Kayser: Katja Seizinger is now the steel boss. What does the Sky Olympic champion actually do? In: bild.de. January 23, 2014, accessed August 29, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Südwest Presse of February 13, 2010: Luca Schaller follows in the footsteps of Katja Seizinger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Website FIS Children Cup , accessed on May 15, 2018.
5. ↑ www.sc-halblech.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} swr.de: Skisport: Katja Seizinger - ski queen of the 90s
7. ↑ spiegel.de of October 2, 1999, accessed on March 3, 2010: Wedding - Katja Seizinger is under the hood
8. ↑ ^{a b} picture on Sunday January 30, 2010, accessed on March 3, 2010: Germany's ski heroine - exclusive! Katja Seizinger completely private - she has completely withdrawn into private life.
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10. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 15, 2006, accessed on March 3, 2010: Interview - "Copying me would be a mistake"
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12. ↑ [3]
13. ↑ Rheinische Post of January 31, 2001, accessed on March 3, 2010: Second assignment in Salt Lake City - Katja Seizinger as a TV expert  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.