Mathias Berthold

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Mathias Berthold Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 18th May 1965 (age 55)
place of birth Gargellen , Austria
size 178 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
combination
society SC Gargellen
status resigned
End of career 1996
Medal table
Professional World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
Professional world championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze Squaw Valley 1991 combination
gold Aspen 1993 slalom
bronze Aspen 1993 combination
bronze Aspen 1996 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 16, 1985
 Overall World Cup 26. ( 1986/87 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 21st ( 1989/90 )
 Slalom World Cup 6. (1986/87)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 1 0
 

Mathias Berthold (born May 18, 1965 in Gargellen ) is a former Austrian ski racer and today's trainer . He won the slalom classification in the European Cup in 1985 and reached a podium in the World Cup . In 1993 he became professional world champion in slalom. Berthold has worked as a trainer since 1996, from 2010 to 2014 as head coach of the Austrian men's team , from 2014 to 2019 he was head coach of the German men's team .

biography

Berthold attended the ski school in Schruns and the ski trade school in Stams . In 1979 he was Austrian student champion in giant slalom and combined and in 1983 Austrian youth champion in slalom. The Vorarlberger started in the European Cup from the 1983/84 season and was able to win his first race, the Pamporowo slalom, that winter . In the next season he celebrated two more victories in the slaloms at Corno alle Scale and in Savognin and came second in each of the two slaloms in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He won the slalom classification and finished seventh in the overall classification.

Berthold had his first start in the World Cup on February 16, 1985 in the slalom of Kranjska Gora , where he immediately achieved eleventh place. In the winter of 1985/86 he was seven times in the top fifteen. The best result was ninth place in the Parpan slalom . In the 1986/87 season he was able to improve further, in December in Kranjska Gora he finished sixth and on January 25th in the slalom in Kitzbühel , just eight hundredths of a second behind the winner Bojan Križaj , he finished second and thus his best World Cup result. Two weeks later, Berthold only came in 16th slalom rank at the World Championships in Crans-Montana . At the end of the season he secured sixth place in the Slalom World Cup with fifth place in Sarajevo .

In the 1987/88 season Berthold could not repeat his previous year's results. The best result was eighth place in the Kranjska Gora slalom, and he was among the top fifteen three more times. He was therefore unable to take part in the Winter Olympics. The next winter he only finished in the points in the first slalom of the season in Sestriere . At the beginning of the 1989/90 season he came again three times in the top ten in the North American races, for the first time in the giant slalom. After that he did not make it into the World Cup points and he ended his career with the amateurs.

From 1991 to 1996 Berthold started with great success in the US Pro-Ski Tour. He celebrated five wins, made it onto the podium more than 30 times and took third place in the overall standings twice. He became professional world champion in slalom in 1993 and won the bronze medal at the professional world championships in 1991 and 1993 in combination and in 1996 in slalom.

After his active career, Berthold became a coach. First he worked for two years in Great Britain before he became the slalom and giant slalom trainer of the Austrian women's team for four years in autumn 1998. In the winter of 2002/03 Berthold was the technical trainer for the US women and from 2003 he trained the technicians in the German Ski Association . In 2006 he became the head coach of the German women’s ski team, with whom he won three gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics . On March 22, 2010, ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel announced that Berthold will take over the post of Austrian men's head coach as Toni Giger's successor from the 2010/11 season. From October 3, 2010 to 2014 he was head coach at the ÖSV. On April 7, 2014, he announced that he would work as the men's head coach of the DSV in the future, replacing Karlheinz Waibel . He has been a mental coach at 1. FC Nürnberg since 2019 .

His son Frederic , born in 1991, is also a ski racer and has been in the A-team of the ÖSV since 2012, previously in the B-team from 2009.

successes

World championships

World cup

  • 1986/87 season : 6th slalom ranking
  • One podium, another nine placements among the top ten

European Cup

Professional racing

World championships

  • Squaw Valley 1991: 3rd combination
  • Aspen 1993: 1st slalom, 3rd combination
  • Aspen 1996: 3rd slalom

US Pro Tour

  • 1991 season: 5th overall ranking
  • 1992 season: 3rd overall ranking
  • 1993 season: 3rd overall ranking
  • 1994 season: 5th overall ranking
  • Five wins, another 31 podiums

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Berthold resigns as DSV men's head coach. In: spox.com. March 21, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Berthold is the coach of the DSV men sport.orf.at, April 7, 2014
  3. ↑ New head coach for men ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sport.orf.at, March 22, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sport.orf.at
  4. ↑ Berthold is the coach of the DSV men sport.orf.at, April 7, 2014
  5. ↑ Ex-ÖSV head coach Mathias Berthold helps Damir Canadi at 1. FC Nürnberg spox.com, September 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Gargellen , Austria