Michael Walchhofer

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Michael Walchhofer Alpine skiing
Michael Walchhofer.jpg
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 28th April 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Radstadt , Austria
size 192 cm
Weight 97 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society USC Altenmarkt
status resigned
End of career March 2011
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Turin 2006 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 2003 Departure
silver Bormio 2005 Super G
silver Bormio 2005 team
bronze Bormio 2005 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 6, 1999
 Individual world cup victories 19th
 Overall World Cup 4th ( 2004/05 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (2004/05, 2005/06 ,
2008/09 )
 Super G World Cup 2. ( 2009/10 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 25th (2004/05)
 Slalom World Cup 23rd ( 1999/2000 )
 Combination World Cup 2. ( 2000/01 , 2002/03 ,
2005/06)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 14th 12 10
 Super G 3 2 4th
 combination 2 1 1
 

Michael Walchhofer (born April 28, 1975 in Radstadt ) is a former Austrian ski racer . He became world champion in downhill skiing in 2003 and won the World Cup in this discipline three times. He was also successful in the Super-G and Combination disciplines . He has been Vice President of the Austrian Ski Association since 2013 .

biography

Walchhofer celebrated its first international successes in the 1998/99 season by winning the overall ranking of the European Cup and the special ranking for the slalom . He contested his first World Cup race on January 6, 1999 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia . Originally he was considered a slalom talent, but in the course of his career he developed more and more into a downhill specialist. In 1999 he also took part in a World Ski Championships for the first time . In Vail / Beaver Creek he immediately finished sixth in the Alpine Combined . In his then special discipline, slalom, he was eliminated in the first round.

Four years later, Walchhofer celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz . He had probably achieved his first World Cup success shortly before by winning the combination in Kitzbühel ; He was still without a win in World Cup downhill runs, but with four second places in the current season his title came in downhill skiing, in which he had start number. 31 started and won with a lead of 51 hundredths of a second over the Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt , only a limited surprise. It was not until November 29, 2003 that he achieved his first victory in this discipline in the downhill from Lake Louise . In the opening race of the 2005 World Championships in Bormio , Walchhofer won the silver medal in the Super-G behind the American Bode Miller . In the descent he was only third as defending champion and big favorite due to a material defect (a stone lying in the piste had damaged his ski). He also won a silver medal in the team competition. On February 12, 2006, the Salzburg resident won his only Olympic precious metal with the silver medal in the downhill at the Olympic Winter Games .

At the 2007 and 2009 World Ski Championships , Walchhofer was left empty-handed in both the downhill and super-G, although it was always considered a favorite. Nevertheless , he caused a stir at the 2009 World Cup in Val-d'Isère . After his start was released despite the start stops due to poor visibility and Walchhofer had finished 12th, the ÖSV protested and Walchhofer was allowed to start a second time. Since the said World Cup descent was considered to be the most physically demanding of the entire season, the achievement that the Austrian finished 9th in his second run cannot be rated highly enough. Walchhofer paid his rivals respect when he crossed the finish line. Walchhofer's team-mate Hermann Maier said, for example, that Walchhofer did not deserve the gold, but the diamond medal. However, this renewed start permit was ultimately withdrawn after studying all radio messages, so that only the 12th place was rated.

Walchhofer won 19 world cup races in his career and was on the podium 49 times. In the seasons 2004/05 , 2005/06 and 2008/09 he won the Downhill World Cup ranking. He is the first ski racer to win two double runs (February 18/19, 2005 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and December 28/29, 2006 in Bormio). With his victory in Lake Louise on November 27th, 2010, at the age of 35 years and 7 months, Walchhofer became the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill run, an age limit which he raised even further with his victory in Bormio on December 29th. On January 22nd, 2011, the previous record holder Didier Cuche regained this record at the age of 36 years and 6 months by winning the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel. Walchhofer ended his career on March 16, 2011 at the age of 35 years and 10 months after celebrating his last downhill win in Kvitfjell 4 days earlier .

In his farewell season 2010/11 Walchhofer had chances of winning his fourth downhill crystal ball. He came as the leader in the downhill classification to the World Cup final in Lenzerheide , where he was intercepted by Didier Cuche and finished his last downhill World Cup classification 12 points behind in second.

In May 2011, after completing his sporting career, Michael Walchhofer became a shareholder and member of the supervisory board of the Linz- based KMU Akademie & Management AG, which offers training programs for MBA , BSc , DBA etc. in adult education. In June 2013 he was appointed Vice President of the Austrian Ski Association and was re-elected in 2014.

Together with his brother Rupert, Walchhofer is the managing partner of Zauchensee Walchhofer GmbH, to which the hotels Zauchenseehof, Zauchensee Zentral and Sportwelt belong ( state of Salzburg / Austria ).

For the ÖVP , Walchhofer represented the sport sector in one of the subgroups of the coalition negotiations with the FPÖ to form a government after the 2017 National Council election .

He has a daughter and twin sons with his wife Barbara.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1998/99 81. 44 - - - - - - 31. 44 - - - -
1999/00 58. 120 - - - - - - 23. 120 - - - -
2000/01 43. 179 42. 29 - - - - 24. 70 2. 80 - -
2001/02 23. 355 9. 295 - - - - - - 5. 60 - -
2002/03 9. 600 3. 430 41. 18th 38. 26th 40. 26th 2. 100 - -
2003/04 7th 828 5. 503 5. 243 - - - - 5. 82 - -
2004/05 4th 1012 1. 681 5. 265 25th 60 57. 6th - - - -
2005/06 5. 855 1. 522 18th 112 37. 21st - - 2. 200 - -
2006/07 16. 498 5. 370 21st 75 33. 22nd - - 26th 31 - -
2007/08 14th 522 3. 407 18th 115 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 8th. 647 1. 470 6th 162 - - - - 32. 15th - -
2009/10 10. 594 6th 260 2. 316 - - - - 33. 18th - -
2010/11 5. 727 2. 498 4th 214 - - - - - - 9. 15th

World Cup victories

19 World Cup victories (14 × downhill, 3 × super-G, 1 × super combination, 1 × combination)

# date place country discipline
1. January 26, 2003 Kitzbühel Austria combination
2. November 29, 2003 Lake Louise Canada Departure
3. December 17, 2004 Val Gardena Italy Super G
4th January 15, 2005 Wengen Switzerland Departure
5. February 18, 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
6th February 19, 2005 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
7th December 10, 2005 Val d'Isère France Departure
8th. December 11, 2005 Val d'Isère France Super combination
9. January 21, 2006 Kitzbühel Austria Departure
10. December 28, 2006 Bormio Italy Departure
11. December 29, 2006 Bormio Italy Departure
12. November 30, 2007 Beaver Creek United States Departure
13. December 15, 2007 Val Gardena Italy Departure
14th December 20, 2008 Val Gardena Italy Departure
15th December 12, 2009 Val d'Isère France Super G
16. November 27, 2010 Lake Louise Canada Departure
17th December 17, 2010 Val Gardena Italy Super G
18th December 29, 2010 Bormio Italy Departure
19th March 12, 2011 Kvitfjell Norway Departure

European Cup

  • 1st place in the overall ranking: 1998/99
  • 1st place in the slalom classification: 1998/99

European Cup victories

date place country discipline
January 25, 1997 Sestriere Italy Departure
December 14, 1998 Welschnofen Italy slalom
January 8, 1999 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
February 28, 1999 Kiruna Sweden slalom
March 3, 2000 Tonale Pass Italy Departure

More Achievements

Awards (excerpt)

literature

  • Michael Walchhofer, Tom Schaubmair: “Abgefahren- aufkocht ” , Walchhofer's culinary guide through the Ski World Cup. Fechter Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-901521-44-7 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Walchhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oldest winner in the supreme discipline . sport.orf.at, November 27, 2010, accessed on November 28, 2010
  2. ↑ KMU Akademie & Management AG
  3. ↑ Walchhofer becomes the new ÖSV Vice President. Kleine Zeitung , June 22, 2013, accessed March 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/innenpolitik/5313157/Koalitionsgespraeche_ExSkistar-Michael-Walchhofer-verhandelt-fuer
  5. ↑ "Weakly boiled up". June 28, 2015, accessed June 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Walchhofer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Radstadt , Austria