Michaela Eßl

Michaela Eßl (born October 27, 1988 in Abtenau ) is an Austrian ski mountaineer .

Life

Sport accompanied Michaela Eßl, who grew up in Abtenau, from an early age. She was particularly fond of ski tours with her father Toni Eßl. Toni Eßl also successfully participated in numerous ski touring races. For fun she took part in ski mountaineering races in 2008 and immediately celebrated victories. This made those responsible in the Austrian association ( ASKIMO , Austrian Ski Mountaineering Organization) aware of her and brought her to the national team.

At the national level, Eßl won almost all well-known competitions in the following two years, including the Mountain Attack in Saalbach, the Achensee Xtreme and the Dachstein Xtreme. Internationally she showed with two European championship silver medals 2009 in the class "Espoirs" (under 23 years) that her potential is even higher. She confirmed this with the world championship title of "Espoirs" 2010 in Andorra, where she also won bronze in the vertical competition and in the relay. Thus she won the first world champion title in ski mountaineering for Austria.

In 2011 she was awarded the bronze lion at the Leonidas sports gala behind Andrea Fischbacher and Marlies Schild .

The international competition season 2012/1013 was very unsatisfactory for Eßl due to health problems, so she had to leave the World Championship in Pelvoux (France) without starting a race.

Eßl left the Austrian national team for the winter of 2013/2014. Instead of the World Cup competitions, she focused on starting classic long-distance races such as the Sella Ronda in Italy or the Patrouille des Glaciers in Switzerland.

In order to be able to work even more specifically on fitness, strength and technique, Michaela Eßl trained from 2010 to 2015 at the Olympic Center in Salzburg in Rif.

Michaela Eßl is a police officer at the Abtenau post. As a policewoman in the police ski touring team, she receives the additional vacation time necessary for the sport. Eßl became Federal Police Officer in 2011 on a racing bike, and in 2010 also on a mountain bike.

Sporting successes

• World Championship

2011 in Claut (ITA):

6th place relay

2010 in Andorra:

1st place Individual class Espoir

3rd place vertical class Espoir

3rd place Relay (season) with Lydia Prugger and Veronika Swidrak

5th place team

• World cup

2013:

5th place Ski Alp Race Ahrntal Individual

8th place Ski Alp Race Ahrntal Vertical

2012:

5th place Trofeo dell'Etna - Individual Race

6th place Trofeo dell'Etna - Vertical Race

2011:

10th place Transcavallo - Individual

2010:

World Cup overall winner class Espoir

4th overall place general class

3rd place Patrol of the Glacier with Lydia Prugger and Veronika Swidrak

2009:

1st place Dachstein X-treme - Individual (Espoir)

9th place in the World Cup, Civetta Ski Raid - Vertical Race

2008:

2nd place Monte di Brenta - Single Race (Espoir)

• Long Distance Race (Grand Course)

2010:

4th place Patrouille des Glacier with Lydia Prugger and Veronika Swidrak

• European Championship

2012: in Pelvoux (FRA):

4th place sprint

6th place Individual

8th place vertical

5th place relay

2009: in Tambre (ITA)

2nd place Espoir Individual

2nd place Espoir Vertical

• National competitions

2017:

1st place Mountain Attack Marathon

1st place Hochkönig Erztrophy Sprint (ÖM 2017 Sprint)

1st place Hochkönig Erztrophy Individual

2015:

1st place Mountain Attack Marathon

2014:

1st place Mountain Attack Marathon

1st place Erztrophy (ÖM 2014 Individual)

1st place Schönleitentrophy (ÖM 2014 Vertical)

2013:

1st place Hochkönigs Trophy

1st place Champ or Cramp Spittal / Drau, (ÖM 2013 Vertical)

2012:

1st place Achensee Xtreme, ÖM 2012

2nd place Jennerstier (ÖM 2012 Vertical)

1st place Mountain Attack Marathon

1st place Diabolo Race

2011:

1st place Achensee Xtreme, ÖM 2011

2010:

1st place Laserzlauf

1st place Mountain Attack Marathon

1st place Achensee Xtreme, Austrian champion single

1st place Dachstein Xtreme

2009:

1st place Knappen-Königs Trophy, Austrian Champion Individual

1st place Gastein 24-hour marathon (world record)

1st place Dammkarwurm, Austrian Championship Team

1st place Lesachtaler touring race

2008:

1st place Dachstein Xtreme

1st place Preberlauf

Web links

• Portrait on the homepage of ASKIMO