Max Franz

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Max Franz Alpine skiing
Max Franz (2018)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 1st September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria
size 182 cm
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , combination
society SV Weißbriach ski section
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze St. Moritz 2017 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 28, 2009
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 15th ( 2014/15 )
 Downhill World Cup 9. ( 2012/13 , 2018/19 )
 Super G World Cup 5. ( 2017/18 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 55th (2018/19)
 Combination World Cup 23rd ( 2011/12 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 3 1
 Super G 1 2 1
 team 1 0 0
last change: March 15, 2020

Max Franz (born September 1, 1989 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian ski racer . He is the cousin of the former ski racer Werner Franz and is particularly successful in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines . Since 2012 he has been a member of the national team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV).

biography

Max Franz drives for SV Weißbriach and was accepted into the ÖSV squad in 2006. He contested his first FIS race in December 2004, the first podium place followed in March 2009 in the giant slalom .

In the European Cup , he went for the first time in March 2006 at the start, the year after a thigh comminuted fracture put him out of action for 18 months. The first full season followed in 2008/09 . In his only third European Cup race, he made his first podium finish with third place on the downhill run on Patscherkofel in Innsbruck . He celebrated his first victory on the subsequent downhill run in Wengen on January 9, 2009, but suffered a strained cruciate ligament while jumping while riding. Franz would have been planned by the ÖSV coaches to start the World Cup downhill in Wengen, the legendary Lauberhorn race , in the following week, but had to pause for two weeks due to his knee injury. At the end of January he made a successful comeback with second place on the downhill in Les Orres . Because of these results, he finished second behind Patrick Küng in the European Cup downhill classification and secured a fixed starting place in his special discipline for the coming 2009/10 World Cup season .

In his first World Cup race, the descent from Lake Louise on November 28, 2009, Franz only achieved 59th place. Five days later he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during downhill training at Beaver Creek , which ended the season for him. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Franz was able to take part in races again. On January 30th, 2011 he won his first World Cup points as 21st of the super combined in Chamonix . In March 2011 he became Austrian downhill national champion for the first time . In the 2011/12 season , Franz caught up with the world's best: On December 16, 2011, he finished fifth in the Super-G in Val Gardena and achieved his first top 10 result in the World Cup. He was also fifth on March 4, 2012 in the Kvitfjell Super-G . In the downhill and super combined disciplines, he was twice among the fastest 15. After the winter he was accepted into the national team of the ÖSV.

On November 24, 2012, Franz finished second in the Lake Louise descent and achieved his first podium in the World Cup. Seven days later, he suffered a severe concussion , a fractured nose and facial abrasions in a fall in the Beaver Creek Super-G . He had to take a break for six weeks and made his comeback on January 19, 2013 with 14th place in the Lauberhorn downhill run from Wengen. A week later he achieved his first top 10 position after the injury with fifth place on the Streif in Kitzbühel . At the home world championship in Schladming , Franz could not live up to his expectations. In the downhill he only reached rank 23, in the Super-G he was not even allowed to start. After that, things went better for him in the World Cup: In Kvitfjell he finished 7th in both the Super-G and the Downhill. He finished the season in 9th place in the Downhill World Cup .

In the following 2013/14 season , Franz confirmed his performance of the previous year with consistent top 15 results. He achieved his best downhill result on January 18, 2014 with 4th place in the Lauberhorn run from Wengen . Shortly afterwards he finished 3rd in the Super-G in Kitzbühel ex-aequo with Aksel Lund Svindal . It was his only podium in the Super-G to date. Thanks to these achievements, Franz was allowed to compete in both the Super-G and the Downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics . In the Super-G he only missed the bronze medal by six hundredths. In the downhill he came in ninth. In the 2014/15 season , too , he was regularly in the top 20. On the descent in Saalbach-Hinterglemm he finished second behind Matthias Mayer in the Austrian triple victory .

The 2015/16 season began with good results for Franz: in the Lake Louise speed races, he finished 6th in the downhill and 4th in the Super-G. In the runs from Val Gardena and Wengen, he achieved further top ten results. On January 19, 2016, he sustained serious injuries in his left knee and wrist during the first training session for the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel and had to end the season early. At the end of the season, Max Franz was back at the start, although he did not finish in the points in the Super-G or the downhill from Kvitfjell. At the season finale in St. Moritz he reached 11th place in the Super-G. On December 17, 2016, he won the downhill classic from Val Gardena ahead of Aksel Lund Svindal and the three-time Val Gardena winner Steven Nyman , thus celebrating his first World Cup victory. At the Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, he won bronze in the downhill. At the first Super-G of the 2017/18 season in Lake Louise, he achieved his best result in this discipline with second place.

Franz won the Lake Louise Downhill and the Beaver Creek Super-G at the beginning of the 2018/19 World Cup season . A second place followed in the downhill from Val Gardena in mid-December. On January 25, 2019 he suffered an unshifted fracture of the heel bone from a blow to the right foot on the Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm run . He then had to end the season prematurely and thereby also missed the world championship.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2010/11 140 12 - - 57. 2 - - 39. 10
2011/12 32. 290 24. 94 14th 156 - - 23. 40
2012/13 26th 269 9. 201 18th 68 - - - -
2013/14 26th 336 13. 214 15th 117 - - 37. 5
2014/15 15th 457 10. 256 8th. 187 - - 24. 14th
2015/16 43. 237 27. 116 22nd 105 - - 28. 16
2016/17 25th 329 16. 139 6th 190 - - - -
2017/18 17th 433 10. 207 5. 228 - - - -
2018/19 21st 408 9. 222 11. 185 55. 1 - -
2019/20 52. 154 29 74 18th 80 - - - -

World cup

  • 10 podium places in individual races, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
17th December 2016 Val Gardena Italy Departure
November 24, 2018 Lake Louise Canada Departure
1st December 2018 Beaver Creek United States Super G

European Cup

date place country discipline
January 9, 2009 Wengen Switzerland Departure

Junior World Championships

Austrian championships

Web links

Commons : Max Franz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austria's contingent for Sochi. (No longer available online.) In: sport.orf.at. February 9, 2014, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Alpine Skiing: New generation suedsport.at, 3rd February, 2009.
  3. ↑ ÖSV young stars can ride down the Lauberhorn. kleinezeitung.at ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) January 14, 2009.
  4. ↑ Max Franz injured during training kaernten.orf.at, December 3, 2009, accessed on April 14, 2010.
  5. ↑ Franz on the mend. derStandard.at , December 2, 2012, accessed on December 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ Defago wins Super-G from Kitzbühel - Franz third. In: Kronen Zeitung . January 26, 2014, accessed March 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Jansrud wins Super-G - ÖSV unlucky. In: news.at . February 16, 2014, accessed March 8, 2015.
  8. ^ Austrian triple success in Saalbach. In: Courier . February 21, 2015, accessed March 8, 2015.
  9. ^ End of the season for French. In: ORF . January 19, 2016, accessed January 20, 2016.
  10. ↑ Max Franz is out for WM - more and more downhill riders injured. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . January 25, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee