Michael Stocker (grass skier)

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Michael Stocker Grass ski
Michael Stocker with the slalom silver medal of the 2009 World Championships
Michael Stocker during the 2009 World Cup
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 28, 1983
place of birth Wiener Neustadt
size 183 cm
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
super-G , combination
society SC Neudörfl
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Grass ski world championships
bronze Dizin 2005 combination
silver Rettenbach 2009 slalom
bronze Goldingen 2011 slalom
FIS Grass ski junior world championships
silver Nové Město 2002 slalom
silver Nové Město 2002 combination
bronze Nové Město 2002 Super G
FIS logo Placements in the World Cup
 World Cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 2008 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 2 2 5
 Giant slalom 1 4th 3
 Super G 0 3 1
 Super combination 1 2 3
last change: October 20, 2012

Michael Stocker (born May 28, 1983 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian grass skier . He is a member of the national team of the Austrian Ski Association and has won three medals at world championships , four world cup races and 27 Austrian championship titles .

Career

Michael Stocker lives in Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria , but has been a member of the Neudörfl ski club in Burgenland since he was five . He completed his school education at the Schladming main ski school and at the Bad Ischl tourism school with a focus on skiing. Then he studied sports science .

Stocker began his sporting career in alpine skiing . He started grass skiing in 1996 when he was looking for an alternative to expensive glacier training in summer. After several medals at junior world championships , he drove on August 27, 2004 with third place in the giant slalom of Nové Město na Moravě for the first time in a World Cup race on the podium. The next day he came in second in the second giant slalom and in the overall ranking of the 2004 season he finished seventh. He achieved another World Cup podium at the beginning of the 2005 season as third in the slalom of L'Aquila . With another four top 10 results, he reached fourth place overall. At the 2005 World Championships he won the bronze medal in combination with fourth place in slalom and tenth place in super-G; He finished the giant slalom in eleventh place. In 2005 Stocker became Austrian champion in all four disciplines for the first time . He was able to repeat this every year until 2009. In 2010 he won three Austrian championship titles in slalom, giant slalom and combined, but was beaten by a tenth of a second in the Super-G by Marcus Peschek .

Stocker remained without a top result in the World Cup during the 2006 season . With three placements among the top ten, he finished seventh in the overall ranking. In the 2007 season he reached second place in the super combined at the finals in Rettenbach, but fell back to ninth place in the overall standings. At the 2007 World Cup , he just missed the medal ranks with fourth place in the slalom. He finished seventh in giant slalom, eleventh in super-G and 14th in super combined.

Michael Stocker in the slalom of the 2009 World Championships

In the 2008 World Cup season, Stocker was able to improve significantly again and celebrated his first World Cup victory on June 14th in the Super Combined by Rettenbach . He achieved his second World Cup victory on August 8th in the giant slalom in Dizin . With a further four podium places, he finished second in the overall standings behind the Italian Edoardo Frau . Stocker achieved his third World Cup victory on August 30, 2009 in Maria Gugging's slalom , after having finished second three times in the 2009 season . In the overall standings, he finished fifth. At the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach, Stocker won the silver medal in slalom behind the Czech Jan Němec . He was fifth in the Super-G and seventh in the giant slalom. In the super combination he was eliminated in the slalom run.

In the 2010 World Cup season , Stocker achieved a total of five podium places, including two second places in the giant slalom in Dizin and in the Super-G in Cesana San Sicario, as well as three third places. He was able to improve himself by two places in the overall World Cup and took third place behind the Czech Jan Němec and the Italian Edoardo Frau. Stocker celebrated his fourth World Cup victory on July 9, 2011 in the Rettenbach slalom, the third World Cup race of the 2011 season . This ended the winning streak of Jan Němec, who after Stocker's third World Cup victory in August 2009 had won 15 World Cup races in a row (one of them at the same time as Jan Gardavský ). As in the previous year, Stocker finished third in the overall World Cup. At the 2011 World Championships in Goldingen , he won the bronze medal in slalom behind Domenic Senn and Jakob Rest . In the giant slalom he was sixth and eighth in the super combination, only in the super G he was eliminated.

In 2012 Stocker achieved third place in the overall World Cup for the third time in a row. He drove on the podium in 5 of the 12 World Cup races, finished second in the giant slalom in Předklášteří and in the second Super-G in Dizin and third three times. As in the previous year, he became Austrian champion in the super-G and in the (super) combined in 2012.

In addition to grass skiing, Stocker is still active in alpine skiing. He trains the student squad of the Burgenland Ski Association and at the beginning of 2009 looked after the Iranian grass and alpine skier Hossein Kalhor in order to prepare him for his first race in the Alpine Ski World Cup .

successes

World championships

Junior World Championships

(Results only known from 2002)

World cup

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
June 14, 2008 Rettenbach Austria Super combination
August 8, 2008 Dizin Iran Giant slalom
August 30, 2009 Maria Gugging Austria slalom
July 9, 2011 Rettenbach Austria slalom

Austrian championships

  • Stocker is 27 times Austrian champion : 6 × slalom, 6 × giant slalom, 7 × super-G, 8 × combination

Awards

Web links

Commons : Michael Stocker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b On Operation Gold on the Sward. www.kurier.at, September 2, 2009, accessed on September 23, 2009.
  2. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Stocker, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian grass skier
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria