Katrin Ofner

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Katrin Ofner Freestyle skiing
Katrin Ofner before the 2018 Winter Olympics
Ofner before the 2018 Winter Olympics
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 5th March 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Klagenfurt
size 170 cm
Weight 63 kg
Career
discipline Ski cross
society UNSC Kobenz
status active
Medal table
Universiade 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Logo of the FISU Winter Universiade
silver Yabuli 2009 Ski cross
Junior World ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver Cardrona 2010 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 12, 2008
 Overall World Cup 16. ( 2014/15 )
 Ski cross world cup 5. (2014/15)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Ski cross 0 3 6th
last change: March 18, 2020

Katrin Ofner (born March 5, 1990 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian freestyle skier . She specializes in the ski cross discipline and is the niece of the former Nordic combined athlete Klaus Ofner .

biography

Ofner was initially an alpine ski runner and started an FIS race for the first time in January 2006 as a 15-year-old . This was followed by nine more in the slalom and giant slalom disciplines , the last in February 2007. As the best place she achieved a 40th place.

A few weeks after her first alpine FIS race, Ofner contested her first ski cross race on February 17, 2006 at the Austrian championships in St. Johann in Tirol . A year later she won the first of a total of ten Austrian championship titles. She has been competing in the World Cup since the 2007/08 season , and in her first race on January 12, 2008 in Les Contamines , she achieved twelfth place. In her fourth World Cup race, on February 22, 2008 in the Sierra Nevada , she was third on the podium behind Ophélie David and Hedda Berntsen . With placements among the top 15 in all seven World Cup competitions, she finished ninth in the Ski Cross World Cup at the end of the season.

In the following World Cup season 2008/09 Ofner again reached third place in Les Contamines. This was followed by four more top 10 placements. At the Winter Universiade 2009 in Yabuli , she won the gold medal. Shortly afterwards it was enough to place 17th at the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro . The 2009/10 season was less successful for Ofner, her best placing was an eighth place. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , she was eliminated in the round of 16 and finished 23rd. In contrast, she won the silver medal at the 2010 Junior World Championships, which took place in Cardrona , New Zealand in August . Ofner's best results in the 2010/11 World Cup season were two sixth places. At the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley , she advanced to the final run, but narrowly missed a medal in fourth.

In the World Cup of the 2011/12 season , a second place was added, in the 2012/13 season a fifth place was the best result. Ofner finished sixth at the 2013 World Championships in Voss . During the 2013/14 season she achieved third place in the World Cup, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she finished sixth. Ofner also stayed just behind the world's best in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 winters . You get two second and a third place. She achieved another third place during the 2016/17 season .

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successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

Ofner has achieved nine podium places in the World Cup so far.

World Cup ratings:

season total Ski cross
space Points space Points
2007/08 34. 26th 9. 205
2008/09 41. 22nd 13. 218
2009/10 46. 18th 14th 193
2010/11 40. 22nd 12. 239
2011/12 24. 32 7th 317
2012/13 40. 28 9. 277
2013/14 48. 24 12. 260
2014/15 16. 38 5. 418
2015/16 28. 36.83 7th 442
2016/17 33. 31.62 7th 411
2017/18 48. 27.90 9. 279
2019/20 37. 28.18 8th. 310

Junior World Championships

  • Cardrona 2011: 2nd ski cross

More Achievements

  • Winter X Games 2016 : 5th ski cross
  • Winter Universiade 2009 : 1st ski cross
  • 4 podiums in the European Cup, including 3 wins
  • ten-time Austrian ski cross champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Ofner, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt