Manuel Kramer
Manuel Kramer 
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| birthday | January 1, 1989 (age 31) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Schladming , Austria | |||||||||||||||
| size | 188 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg | |||||||||||||||
| job | Army athlete | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline |
Alpine skiing speed ski |
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| society | USC Flachau | |||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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Manuel Kramer (born January 1, 1989 in Schladming ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He was particularly successful in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines . Kramer has been taking part in the Speed Ski World Cup since 2015 .
Career
Manuel Kramer grew up in the World Cup resort of Flachau in the Ski amadé sports world and had shown his talent early on in various children's and youth races as a member of the Union Sportclub Flachau. From a young age he was supported and trained by his father. Manuel Kramer, like his older brother Michael, who ended his skiing career in 2004 after numerous starts in FIS races , belonged to the Salzburg State Ski Association . Kramer graduated from the ski trade school in Schladming as a retail salesman. He is currently stationed as an army athlete (corporal rank) in Rif near Hallein and trains in the performance support center (LBZ). He was considered a great young talent of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV).
Kramer has been driving FIS races since 2004 and started in the European Cup for the first time in February 2006 . In the 2008/09 season he achieved his first podium finishes as second at the Super-G in Sarntal / Reinswald and third at the Super-G in Crans-Montana . He finished third in the Super-G discipline and secured a place in the World Cup for the 2009/10 season . At the Junior World Championship 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Kramer won the gold medal in the Super-G ahead of his teammate Marcel Hirscher .
In the 2009/10 season Kramer was a member of the A-team of the ÖSV. He contested his first World Cup race on November 29, 2009 in Lake Louise , but could not finish the Super-G. He did not finish in his next two World Cup Super Gs either. In the European Cup, Kramer could not quite match his previous year's results. Although he improved in the downhill, he fell far behind in the Super-G and in the overall standings and was placed back in the B-squad from the ÖSV A squad. On March 20, 2010 he was Austrian runner-up in the Super-G behind Klaus Kröll .
In the winter of 2010/11, Kramer took part in two World Cup races in Kvitfjell , in which he was again without points. He celebrated his first victory in the European Cup on February 18, 2011 when he won the downhill run on the slope newly laid out for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi . With a second place in the final in Formigal , he secured victory in the European Cup downhill classification and the return to the A-squad of the ÖSV in the 2010/11 season . On November 27, 2011, Kramer drove to twelfth place in the Super-G in Lake Louise with the high starting number 60 and thus won World Cup points for the first time. In the rest of the winter, however, he was no longer among the fastest 30 in any World Cup races, which is why he lost his ÖSV squad in spring 2012.
In the following winter of 2012/13, Kramer secured third place in the downhill classification in the European Cup for the coming 2013/14 season in the Downhill World Cup. With 42nd place in the downhill from Val Gardena as the best place, he fell short of his expectations and ended his career after this season.
From 2015, Kramer will start in the Speed Ski World Cup.
successes
Junior World Championships
- Formigal 2008 : 20th Super-G
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 1st Super-G, 11th Downhill
World cup
- 1 place among the best 15
European Cup
- 2008/09 season : 3rd super-G rating
- 2010/11 season : 1st downhill classification
- 2012/13 season : 3rd downhill classification
- 5 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 18, 2011 | Sochi | Russia | Departure |
More Achievements
- Austrian runner-up in the Super-G 2010
- 2 victories in FIS races (each 1 × Super-G and downhill)
Web links
- Manuel Kramer's website
- Manuel Kramer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Alpine skiing
- Manuel Kramer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Speedski
- Manuel Kramer at speedski-info.com (English, French )
- Manuel Kramer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
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| SURNAME | Kramer, Manuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schladming , Austria |