Maarten Meiners started skiing at the age of five. After he had contested his first races in the indoor ski area , he trained in Austria between 2004 and 2008 before making the leap to the Dutch national team. In the 2009/10 season he was named Dutch youth champion in giant slalom and took part in a junior world championship in the Mont Blanc region for the first time . In three starts he reached ranks 36 and 57 in slalom and super-G. At his second JWM participation in Crans-Montana, he classified himself in all five disciplines and achieved 16th place in the super combined as the best result. In two other participations ( Roccaraso 2012 , Québec 2013 ), a tenth place in the giant slalom ( Mont Sainte-Anne 2013) remained his top result.
World Cup and major events
In January 2011, Meiners made his European Cup debut in the giant slalom in Oberjoch . His best results to date were two tenth places in the giant slalom there in 2014 and in Lélex in 2015. A few weeks after his European Cup debut, he started in Garmisch for the first time in a world championship , which he finished in slalom and giant slalom with ranks 52 and 59. At the end of the season he secured his first national title in the combination. At the beginning of next winter he won the Dutch indoor championship. On December 16, 2012, he made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom on the Gran Risa , but has never qualified for a second round. In February 2013 he took a remarkable 20th place in the super combined as part of his second world championship in Schladming . The following two world championships ( Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 , St. Moritz 2017 ) did not go as planned and ended with three retirements in three races. After the first round of the giant slalom at Beaver Creek, Meiners was still in 25th place. As part of the Universiade in Almaty , he won the silver medal in the combination behind Kristaps Zvejnieks in February 2017 . At the end of the season he was crowned the Dutch champion in giant slalom for the first time in St. Johann im Pongau .
↑ The races of the Australian New Zealand Cup are held annually in August and September (southern winter) and are already included in the coming international season.
Netherlands
