Martin Hansson (ski racer)

Martin Hansson
nation	Sweden
birthday	12th March 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Hedemora , Sweden
size	177 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	slalom
society	Sälens IF
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 22, 1995  Overall World Cup 43rd ( 1996/97 )  Slalom World Cup 13. (1996/97)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 0 0 1

Martin Hansson (born March 12, 1975 in Hedemora ) is a former Swedish ski racer . The slalom specialist achieved a podium place in the World Cup and a further eleven top 10 placements as well as tenth place at the 2006 Winter Olympics and two twelfth places at world championships .

biography

Hansson took part in the Junior World Championships in 1993 and 1994 . His best result was fifth in the slalom in 1994 . After a number of starts at FIS races as well as in the European and Nor-Am Cups , he made his World Cup debut on January 22, 1995 in the Wengen slalom . A year later he was able to qualify for a second round in Sestriere for the first time and win his first World Cup points with rank 20. In the following winter he made it to the top of the world. First he drove in Breckenridge and Madonna di Campiglio twice under the top ten, before he achieved the first and only World Cup podium of his career on January 20, 1997 with third place in Chamonix .

In the next two years Hansson drove a total of five times under the top ten, but from 2000 onwards - also due to many failures - he was able to qualify less and less for a second round, so that in the 2000/01 and 2001/02 seasons he even did remained without World Cup points. Hansson also had to accept many failures at major events. Both at the 1996 , 1997 and 1999 World Championships and at the 1998 Winter Olympics , he remained without a result. He did not take part in the 2001 World Cup and the 2002 Olympic Games.

From 2003 Hansson was able to score again sporadically in the World Cup, even if he only rarely qualified for a second round in the next two years. Positive exceptions during this time were twelfth place at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz and eleventh place in the World Cup slalom in St. Anton in February 2004. In the 2005/06 season , Hansson was more consistent again, finishing eighth in Schladming and ninth in Kranjska Gora for the first time in seven years two top 10 results in the World Cup. He also made it into the top 10 in tenth place at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . Hansson achieved similar results in winter 2006/07 . As the best World Cup result, he reached tenth place in Schladming and was twelfth at the 2007 World Cup in Åre .

In his last season 2007/08 , a 20th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was Hansson's best World Cup result. After the winter he ended his career after 13 years in the World Cup. During this time he took part in 106 World Cup slaloms (as well as two giant slaloms and one Super-G) and made it into the top ten twelve times.

Together with his sister Erika Hansson , who was a ski racer herself until 2001, he runs the winter sports shop Dalskidan in his home town of Sälen .

successes

winter Olympics

• Turin 2006 : 10th slalom

World championships

• St. Moritz 2003 : 12th slalom
• Åre 2007 : 12th slalom

Junior World Championships

• Monte Campione 1993 : 17th slalom, 46th Super-G, 47th descent
• Lake Placid 1994 : 5th slalom, 7th giant slalom, 7th combination, 40th descent

World cup

• A podium and a further eleven top 10 placements

More Achievements

• Three-time Swedish slalom champion (1996, 1998 and 2001)
• One victory and another three podium places in the European Cup (from 1994/95)

Web links

• Martin Hansson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Martin Hansson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Martin Hansson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )