Kilian Albrecht

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Kilian Albrecht Alpine skiing
Kilian Albrecht in March 2008
nation AustriaAustria Austria Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgaria 
birthday 13th April 1973 (age 47)
place of birth Au , Austria
size 181 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , super-G
society WSV Au
Ulen Ski Team
status resigned
End of career 2011
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Maribor 1992 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 3rd December 1994
 Overall World Cup 30. ( 2000/01 )
 Super G World Cup 36th ( 1995/96 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 35th (1995/96)
 Slalom World Cup 8. (2000/01)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 2 0
 

Kilian Albrecht (born April 13, 1973 in Au , Vorarlberg ) is a former alpine ski racer from Austria who started for Bulgaria in 2006 . He is a state-certified qualified ski instructor and has been one of the best slalom runners of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) for several years . He finished second twice in his career in the World Cup and achieved a total of 18 top 10 placements between 2000 and 2005. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he achieved fourth place in the slalom. After falling performance, he was dismissed from the ÖSV squad. From the 2006/07 to 2011 season he started for Bulgaria. He completed his last race so far in 2016.

biography

At the age of 17 Albrecht was accepted into the junior squad of the Austrian Ski Association. He achieved his first international success at the Junior World Championships in Maribor in 1992 when he won the bronze medal in slalom. He then rose to the B-squad. After good results in FIS races , he started regularly in the European Cup from the 1993/94 season , where he first achieved his best performances in the giant slalom. With his first victory in the giant slalom on the Koralpe , he finished tied with Italian Massimo Zucchelli in second place in the giant slalom ranking and eighth in the overall classification. In the 1994/95 season , with two victories in the giant slaloms in Les Arcs and Villach and a third place in Geilo, he reached fourth place in the giant slalom ranking and third place in the overall European Cup and was promoted to the A-squad of the ÖSV. In the same winter he also competed in his first two World Cup races , in which he could not qualify for the second round.

In the 1995/96 European Cup season , Albrecht again achieved third place in the overall classification with five podium places (2 × giant slalom, 2 × Super-G and 1 × slalom) and third in the Super-G classification, tied with Hermann Maier . In this winter he started regularly in the World Cup and took the season opener in the giant slalom in Tignes as 21 the first points. Another two top 30 results followed at the overseas races in the United States , but then a few races without results. At the end of winter he achieved his best result of the season with 14th place in the Kvitfjell Super-G .

From winter 1996/97 Albrecht concentrated entirely on the slalom in the World Cup. This initially had a negative effect on his results, because in the 1996/97 season he only qualified in one of eight slaloms for the second round. The following winter he was able to score at least three times and achieved eleventh place in Veysonnaz as the best result . After a 15th place in the Slalom of Park City in the 1998/99 season was his best result and he was never placed in the top 30 in the Slalom World Cup, Albrecht was dismissed from the ÖSV squad after this winter. He then continued to train at his own expense.

Dismissed from the ÖSV squad and resumed

During the next winter, Albrecht was able to improve noticeably. In the first five slaloms of the 1999/2000 season he did not yet make it into the top 20, but on January 23, 2000 he finished ninth in Kitzbühel for the first time under the top ten. With another three top 10 results at the end of the season, he finished 14th in the Slalom World Cup, whereupon he was re-accepted into the ÖSV squad. In the 2000/01 season , Albrecht achieved his first podium finish as second in the slalom of Sestriere and with another four top 10 results he achieved eighth place in the Slalom World Cup. Within the strong Austrian team, however, he was unable to qualify for the 2001 World Cup in St. Anton am Arlberg in his specialty . Therefore, he was only used in the combination at the World Cup, in which he was eliminated in the second slalom run. The next winter started with slightly worse results and several failures. In January he again achieved second place in Kitzbühel and two days later in the night slalom on the Planai, seventh place, which also secured him participation in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . There Albrecht first took eleventh place in the combination and ten days later fourth in the slalom, where he missed the bronze medal against Benjamin Raich by only 4 hundredths of a second. In the Slalom World Cup he reached tenth place with a fourth place at the season finale in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee .

In the next few years Albrecht's results deteriorated. Although he was regularly in the points, top 10 placings were getting fewer and fewer and there were no podiums at all. In the 2002/03 season Albrecht drove three times in the top ten, with his best result being fifth in the slalom of Yongpyong . In the winter of 2003/04 there were only two top 10 results and after he was only once among the top ten in the 2004/05 season and failed in four of eight World Cup races, he lost his ÖSV squad again. In the summer of 2005, Albrecht planned a change of nation to the United Arab Emirates . This project failed and so he was able to complete six more World Cup races for the ÖSV in the 2005/06 season , but only achieved an 18th and 19th place, which meant that he was unable to return to the ÖSV permanently.

Bulgarian citizen

In order not to have to end his career, Albrecht became a Bulgarian citizen in December 2006 and drove for Bulgaria from the 2006/07 season . On December 18, 2006, he completed his first World Cup race for the Bulgarian Ski Association, but failed in the first round. In his other six World Cup races that winter, he never made it through to the second round. Nevertheless, he was nominated for the 2007 World Championships in Åre , where he initially failed in giant slalom, but reached 13th place in slalom. He was also Bulgarian champion in slalom. In the 2007/08 season Albrecht scored the first World Cup points for his new association. He finished in the top 30 in five of ten slaloms, with his best result being 20th in Zagreb . He was able to successfully defend his Bulgarian championship title. In the 2008/09 season he achieved three top 20 results and the best result was 17th in Kitzbühel. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he failed in the first slalom run. Since his move to the Bulgarian Ski Association, Albrecht has started again increasingly in the European Cup, where he achieved two podium places this winter. Also in the 2009/10 season he reached a podium in the European Cup, while he only scored once in the World Cup as 21st on the Ganslernhang in Kitzbühel. In the slalom of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he finished 20th. After that, Kilian Albrecht had already ended his career, but he returned to racing again in the 2010/11 season. First he took part in the World Cup slalom in Kitzbühel, in which he did not finish, and then in the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where he finished 26th. He then contested the slalom in Bansko , Bulgaria - for the first time since 1984 the Men's World Cup was hosted in Bulgaria - his last World Cup race, in which, however, he failed again.

In 2009 Albrecht was elected chairman of the athletes' commission of the International Ski Federation for four years . He was succeeded in 2013 by cross-country skier Kikkan Randall . Albrecht is currently the manager of slalom star Mikaela Shiffrin .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

Junior World Championships

European Cup

More Achievements

  • 2 wins in the Nor-Am Cup
  • 2 wins in the Far East Cup
  • 1 win in the Australian New Zealand Cup
  • 2 Bulgarian championship titles (slalom 2007 and 2008)
  • 2-time Austrian youth champion (giant slalom and Super-G 1992)
  • Austrian runner-up in slalom in 1995 and 2000 and in Super-G in 1996
  • Gold medal in slalom at the 1999 Universiade
  • 17 victories in FIS races

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=AL&competitorid=645&raceid=86154
  2. ↑ Kilian Albrecht competes for Bulgaria at the World Ski Championships. www.orf.at, February 19, 2011, accessed on February 19, 2011
  3. ↑ Philip Bauer: The ÖSV is still alive in the last century. In: derstandard.at . June 17, 2015, accessed January 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Kilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and Bulgarian alpine ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Au (Vorarlberg) , Austria