Martin Štěpánek (grass skier)

Martin Štěpánek
Martin Štěpánek in June 2010
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	November 27, 1982
place of birth	Brno
size	184 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	TJ Tesla Brno
status	active
Medal table
Junior World Championship 4 × 1 × 0 ×
Grass ski junior world championships gold Bursa 2001 Super G gold Nové Město 2002 slalom gold Nové Město 2002 Super G gold Nové Město 2002 combination silver Nové Město 2002 Giant slalom
Placements in the World Cup
World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 4. ( 2009 , 2010 )
last change: October 22, 2012

Martin Štěpánek (born November 27, 1982 in Brno ) is a Czech grass skier . The member of the Czech national grass ski team has been a four-time junior world champion and has won two world cup races so far .

Career

Martin Štěpánek studied at the Technical University of Brno and began grass skiing as summer training for alpine skiing . Eventually grass skiing became his main sport, but in winter he still competes in alpine ski races. So far, he has achieved several top 10 places in FIS and student races.

Štěpánek celebrated his first major successes in grass skiing at the Junior World Championships . In 2001 he won gold in the Super-G and in 2002 he won three golds in the slalom, in the Super-G and in the combined, as well as silver in the giant slalom. At world championships in the general class he achieved numerous top 10 placements and narrowly missed the medal ranks several times. At the 2003 World Championships in Castione della Presolana , ninth place in the giant slalom was his only result. Two years later he reached sixth place in the Super-G at the 2005 World Championships in Dizin , eleventh place in slalom and eighth place in the combination. In the giant slalom, however, he was disqualified after a goal error in the first round. Just behind the medal ranks remained Štěpánek at the 2007 World Cup in Olešnice v Orlických horách . He was fourth in the super combined, fifth in the giant slalom and eighth in the super G. Also at the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach , he just missed the medal ranks. In slalom and super-G he was fourth, each less than a tenth of a second behind the bronze rank, and in giant slalom he was fifth. He didn't finish in the super combination. Once again, Štěpánek just missed the medal ranks at the 2011 World Championships in Goldingen . He finished fourth in the super combined, fifth in the super-G and seventh in the giant slalom. In the slalom he was eliminated in the first round.

In the World Cup , Martin Štěpánek was initially able to regularly rank among the top 20 and sometimes also among the top ten in the overall ranking. From 2007 to 2012 he was among the top six in the overall World Cup six times in a row: In the 2007 season , he achieved sixth place overall with a second place in the first slalom in Sattel and another four top 5 results. In 2008 he won the slalom in Čenkovice , was third in the super combination of Rettenbach, was in the top ten five times and was fifth in the overall World Cup. In the 2009 season , Štěpánek won the Super-G from Marbachegg , finished second in the slalom from Čenkovice and reached fourth place overall with four more top 5 results. Martin Štěpánek also came fourth overall in the 2010 season . His best race result of the year was second place in the giant slalom in Cesana San Sicario , and he finished third three times. In the overall World Cup of the 2011 season , Štěpánek finished sixth with two podium places. He achieved four podiums and fifth place in the overall World Cup in the 2012 season .

successes

World championships

• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 9th giant slalom
• Dizin 2005 : 6th super-G, 8th combination, 11th slalom
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 4th super combined, 5th giant slalom, 8th super G
• Rettenbach 2009 : 4th slalom, 4th Super-G, 5th giant slalom
• Goldingen 2011 : 4th super combination, 5th super G, 7th giant slalom

Junior World Championships

(only podium placements)

• Bursa 2001 : 1st Super-G
• Nové Město na Moravě 2002 : 1st slalom, 1st Super-G, 1st combination, 2nd giant slalom

World cup

• 2007 season : 6th overall
• 2008 season : 5th overall
• 2009 season : 4th overall
• 2010 season : 4th overall
• 2011 season : 6th overall
• 2012 season : 5th overall
• Two victories in world cup races

Web links

Commons : Martin Štěpánek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Martin Štěpánek in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (from 2004)