Manfred Mölgg

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Manfred Mölgg Alpine skiing
Manfred Mölgg in January 2008
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 3rd June 1982 (age 38)
place of birth Brunico , Italy
size 176 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
super-G , combination
society GS Fiamme Gialle
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Indoor European Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Are 2007 slalom
bronze Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 slalom
bronze Schladming 2013 Giant slalom
European Ski Federation European Alpine Indoor Ski Championships
bronze Amnéville 2009 Knockout slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 12, 2003
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 4th ( 2007/08 )
 Super G World Cup 35th (2007/08)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd (2007/08)
 Slalom World Cup 1. (2007/08)
 Combination World Cup 13th ( 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 3 0
 slalom 3 4th 9
 combination 0 0 1
 team 1 1 1
last change: March 15, 2020

Manfred Mölgg (born June 3, 1982 in Bruneck ) is an Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean has won three slaloms in the World Cup so far . In 2007 he became vice world champion in this discipline, and in the 2007/08 season he won the slalom discipline. He won a bronze medal each at the 2011 World Championships in slalom and in 2013 in giant slalom. His younger sister Manuela Mölgg was also a member of the Italian national ski team.

biography

Promotion to the World Cup

Mölgg started skiing at the age of four. Under the care of his uncle Marco Kaneider, whom he describes as the most influential person in his career, he made the leap into the South Tyrolean national team in 1997. In December of the same year he took part in FIS races for the first time at the age of 15 . From 2000 he belonged to the C-team of the Italian national ski team, from 2002 to the B-team and finally from 2003 to the A-team. His first appearances in the European Cup were in December 2001, and in March 2002 he was Italian junior slalom champion. In the 2002/03 season Mölgg began to establish himself in the European Cup, his first podium place he achieved in mid-January 2003 as second in the giant slalom in Saas-Fee . Four weeks later, on February 11, 2003, he won his first European Cup victory in the Oberjoch slalom . At the end of the season there were six podium places and second place in the slalom discipline of the European Cup. In addition, there was his first Italian championship title .

Mölgg took part in a World Cup race for the first time on January 12, 2003, finishing 56th in the giant slalom in Bormio . He came regularly to appearances in the World Cup from the 2003/04 season . He won World Cup points for the first time on December 15, 2003 in the slalom of Madonna di Campiglio , where he surprisingly finished fifth. Just five weeks later, on February 21, 2004, he was second in the Schladming slalom for the first time on the podium. He had only Benjamin Raich beaten. With regular top 10 rankings, he qualified for the 2005 World Cup in Bormio, where he finished 13th in the giant slalom. In the 2005/06 World Cup season he was only able to achieve a top 10 result, his two races at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin each ended with a retirement.

Highlights

Mölgg achieved a significant increase in the 2006/07 World Cup season . After a cautious start to the season, eight top 10 placings followed in the second half of December. In the slaloms of Kitzbühel , Kranjska Gora and Lenzerheide he was third. He experienced a first career highlight at the 2007 World Cup in Åre . There he won the silver medal in slalom, with his deficit on winner Mario Matt was almost two seconds. Mölgg drove very consistently in the winter of 2007/08 , especially in the slalom. After three third and one second place, he achieved his first victory in a World Cup race on March 9, 2008 in Kranjska Gora. Six days later he won the discipline classification at the World Cup final in Bormio, 19 points ahead of Jean-Baptiste Grange . Not numerous victories were responsible for this success, but the fact that, unlike the competition, he finished in every race and was always placed in the top 15 with one exception. He also achieved an increase in performance in the giant slalom: Two second places resulted in third place in the discipline ranking.

Mölgg could not quite maintain this high level in the 2008/09 season . The highlight of the season was the Slalom World Cup victory on February 1, 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , while it failed to meet the high expectations at the subsequent World Cup in 2009 in Val-d'Isère . At the beginning of the 2009/10 season he won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Ski Championships in Amnéville, which was held only once . In the further course of the winter he achieved a second and third place in the World Cup, while at his second Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, seventh place in the slalom was his best result.

Mölgg was denied a podium place during the 2010/11 World Cup (the best result was fourth place in the slalom in Schladming ), but at the 2011 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won the slalom bronze medal. After he did not get past eighth place in the 2011/12 World Cup , the 2012/13 season went significantly better: He was classified in the top ten 13 times, and once he was second and third on the podium. He won another bronze medal, this time in the giant slalom, at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming.

Further course of the career

Mölgg achieved a podium place during the 2013/14 World Cup season . In contrast, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were disappointing , when he was eliminated in both the giant slalom and the slalom in the second round. In mid-August 2014 he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon during training , which forced him to take a break of several months. He was only able to start again in January 2015, but still managed to qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The best World Cup result this winter was a 13th place. There was an upward trend in the 2015/16 World Cup , with eight top 10 placements and fifth place as the best result. At least in the slalom, Mölgg was once again among the world's best in the 2016/17 World Cup season : in eight out of ten races he was among the top ten. The highlight of the season was first place in Zagreb on January 5, 2017, his first World Cup victory after almost eight years and his third overall. With two more podium places, he secured third place in the discipline ranking. On the other hand, he was far from meeting the higher expectations at the 2017 World Cup in St. Moritz .

Mölgg also performed well in the 2017/18 World Cup and achieved eight results among the top ten, but it was not enough for a podium. His results at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where he did not get past 12th place in slalom, were below average . He achieved another three top 10 results in the 2018/19 World Cup (a sixth place each). At the 2019 World Championships in Åre, he finished 18th in slalom. Similar to previous winters, Mölgg's performances were at the beginning of the 2019/20 World Cup season . On January 11, 2020, he fell in the giant slalom in Adelboden and suffered a cruciate ligament tear in his left knee. This meant the premature end of the season.

Private

Manfred Mölgg is the cousin of the Austrian actor Robert Palfrader . Together with his sister Manuela Mölgg , he runs the Hotel MÖLGG Dolomites Residence in St. Vigil .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Manfred Mölgg at the World Cup Slalom in Zagreb 2015
season total Super G Giant slalom slalom combination City event
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2003/04 27. 326 - - 23. 90 9. 236 - - - -
2004/05 19th 398 - - 15th 142 8th. 256 - - - -
2005/06 56. 126 - - 25th 67 28. 59 - - - -
2006/07 18th 453 - - 10. 119 5. 334 - - - -
2007/08 4th 924 35. 14th 3. 376 1. 531 51. 3 - -
2008/09 17th 484 - - 19th 101 6th 370 34. 13 - -
2009/10 14th 474 36. 20th 13. 167 12. 211 13. 76 - -
2010/11 19th 419 - - 20th 92 6th 298 28. 29 - -
2011/12 41. 222 - - 20th 116 26th 106 - - - -
2012/13 7th 636 - - 4th 301 5. 535 - - 13. 15th
2013/14 17th 391 - - 17th 130 10. 261 - - - -
2014/15 81. 74 - - 40. 14th 26th 60 - - - -
2015/16 33. 300 - - 23. 129 17th 171 - - - -
2016/17 9. 580 - - 21st 104 3. 476 - - - -
2017/18 21st 376 - - 15th 132 10. 244 - - - -
2018/19 26th 333 - - 21st 103 12. 230 - - - -
2019/20 72. 119 - - 39. 14th 22nd 105 - - - -

World Cup victories

  • 20 podium places in individual races, including three wins:
date place country discipline
March 9, 2008 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
February 1, 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany slalom
5th January 2017 Zagreb Croatia slalom

European Cup

  • 2002/03 season : 6th overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking, 9th giant slalom ranking
  • Season 2003/04 : 3rd overall, 2nd giant slalom rating
  • 13 podium places, including 2 wins

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Manfred Mölgg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred MOELGG. sochi2014.ru, 2014, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Portrait - Manfred Mölgg (ITA). Skiinfo, August 23, 2012, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Manfred Mölgg: Workhorse and fighter nature in personal union. skiweltcup.tv, December 14, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mölgg new king of Zagreb - convince the Swiss. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , January 5, 2017, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Knee shock in Adelboden: Fears about Manni Mölgg. sportnews.bz, January 11, 2020, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dolomites Residence. In: moelgg-dolomites.com. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mölgg, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunico