Klaus scrap hammer

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Klaus scrap hammer
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 16th May 1979 (age 41)
place of birth Bad AusseeAustria
size 190 cm
Weight 95 kg
job Bank clerk
Career
discipline Speed ​​sking
society WSC Bad Mitterndorf
Debut in the World Cup 2004 ( SDH )
Pers. Top speed 248.447 km / h
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS World Speed ​​Ski Championships
bronze Pas de la Casa 2015 S1
bronze Idre 2017 S1
bronze Vars 2019 S1
Placements in the Speed ​​Ski World Cup
 World Cup victories 11
last change: March 26, 2017

Klaus Schrottshammer (born May 16, 1979 in Bad Aussee ) is an Austrian speed skier . In 2012 and 2014 he won the overall speed ski world cup and twice the bronze medal at world championships. With 248.447 km / h it has held the Austrian speed record since 2016.

biography

Klaus Schrottshammer comes from Bad Mitterndorf in Styria and starts for his home club.

Schrotthammer devoted himself to alpine ski racing until he was 16 . In 2004 he competed in the Speed ​​Ski World Cup for the first time, until 2007 he competed in all races in the downhill class (SDH). On his debut in the professional S1 class in Les Arcs, he immediately achieved a personal best of 217.52 km / h. In 2009 he took part in a world championship for the first time in Vars , but did not get beyond a 39th place. In the following seasons he improved continuously and celebrated his first World Cup victory on April 3, 2011 in Idre . In the 2012 season he won all five races and thus secured the overall World Cup for the first time. After a year without a win, he celebrated his second triumph in the overall World Cup in 2014 with four season wins. In his fourth World Cup participation in 2015, he was able to win the bronze medal behind the dominating Origone brothers. On March 26, 2016, he set a new Austrian record at the Speed ​​Masters in Vars with 248.447 km / h. He beat the 17-year-old record set by Harry Egger from Tyrol by 0.342 km / h.

Schrottshammer is a trained banker and spends his free time skiing, cross-country skiing, ski touring, jogging and mountain biking.

successes

World championships

World cup

World Cup victories

  • 25 podium places, including 11 wins:
date place country
April 3, 2011 Idre Sweden
February 26, 2012 Pas de la Casa Andorra
March 18, 2012 Vars France
March 24, 2012 Idre Sweden
March 25, 2012 Idre Sweden
April 18, 2012 Verbier Switzerland
February 23, 2014 Pas de la Casa Andorra
March 7, 2014 Sun peaks Canada
March 15, 2014 Idre Sweden
March 16, 2014 Idre Sweden
March 3, 2015 Pas de la Casa Andorra

World Cup placements

season space Points class
2010 6th 275 S1
2011 7th 160 S1
2012 1. 500 S1
2013 3. 410 S1
2014 1. 590 S1
2015 2. 330 S1
2016 3. 325 S1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Record flood in speed skiing. ORF , March 26, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2016 .
  2. Speed ​​Ski Austria - Klaus Schrottshammer. (No longer available online.) ÖSV , archived from the original on March 27, 2016 ; accessed on March 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.speedskiing.at

Remarks

  1. The Italian Ivan Origone set a new world record in the same competition with 254.958 km / h.