Michaela Gerg

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Michaela Gerg Alpine skiing
Michaela Gerg (2016)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 10th November 1965 (age 54)
place of birth Bad Toelz , Germany
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1996
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 3 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Vail 1989 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Auron 1982 Giant slalom
gold Sestriere 1983 Giant slalom
gold Sestriere 1983 combination
silver Sestriere 1983 Departure
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
silver Škofja Loka 1981 Giant slalom
silver Škofja Loka 1981 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 3. ( 1989/90 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (1989/90)
 Super G World Cup 2. (1989/90)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 7. ( 1986/87 )
 Slalom World Cup 25. (1989/90)
 Combination World Cup 2. (1989/90)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 1 9
 Super G 0 3 3
 Giant slalom 1 1 1
 combination 0 2 0
 

Elisabeth Michaela "Michi" Gerg (born November 10, 1965 in Bad Tölz , Bavaria , from 1991 to 2008 Elisabeth Michaela Gerg-Leitner) is a former German ski racer . She was a participant in four Olympic Winter Games .

biography

origin

Gerg grew up on the Draxlhof right next to the lifts of the Brauneck mountain railway , where her grandfather built the first ski lift in Lenggries- Wegscheid. She was already on skis at the age of two, and at 15 she was the youngest member of the DSV 's A-team . Michi Gerg first attended the Hohenburg Castle Girls' Secondary School and then the winter sports boarding school Christophorusschule in Berchtesgaden, after completing secondary school she completed an apprenticeship in the Lenggries community administration.

Athletic career

In her career, Gerg won four world cup races at the 1989 World Cup in Vail, the bronze medal in the Super-G , just 0.04 seconds behind the winner Ulrike Maier . In the Olympic giant slalom on February 24, 1988 in Calgary (first run: 8th place with 1.13 seconds behind the leading Blanca Fernández Ochoa ) she had a hard fall in the second round. She suffered complex joint damage in her left knee and a tear in the outer ligament. She was immediately flown to Munich for an operation . Her strengths lay mainly in the fast disciplines such as the downhill and the super-G.

She was German champion five times : in 1982 in the downhill, 1984 and 1986 in slalom and 1987 and 1989 in giant slalom . In 1982 and 1983 she was junior world champion in giant slalom. In the course of her career she made it into the top ten more than 400 times - including 61 times in the top three. She was awarded the "Golden Ski" twice. It is the highest award that the German Ski Association awards every year.

In November 1996, Gerg resigned from competitive sports at the age of 30 because of differences with the DSV following a serious injury and her mother's disease of thyroid cancer , where, in addition to her successes, she also had to struggle with facial paralysis, fractures and torn cruciate ligaments. She then worked as a co-commentator with Sigi Heinrich for Eurosport from 1996 to 1998 and for ZDF from 1998 to 2002 . Since 2008 she has been running a ski school on Brauneck in Lenggries , which with 65 ski instructors is one of the largest ski schools in the region.

Private

Gerg, a cousin of ice hockey goalkeeper Beppo Schlickenrieder , married the Austrian Christian Leitner in 1991, who was then a trainer at the Austrian Ski Association and the son of ski racer Hias Leitner . The couple, who have since divorced, had their son Matthias Leitner in August 1997, who also took part in international ski races until 2014 and then played football as a center forward in TSV 1860 Munich's U-21 and in the 2016/2017 season for WSG Wattens .

Michaela Gerg said she had a tendency to esotericism during her sporting career : when traveling from one World Cup location to the next, she always had her divining rod with her , if the bed was bad, she took out the mattress and slept on the floor. After her active career, Gerg trained as a Feng Shui consultant and was also active in this profession.

When Michaela Gerg was three months pregnant, her mother died of thyroid cancer. A few months after her son was born, she was also diagnosed with thyroid cancer. After initially hesitating about an operation, the thyroid was eventually removed; no metastases had formed.

In 2012 Gerg founded the “Snow Crystals Foundation”, which supports financially disadvantaged or physically challenged children. By 2016, she sat for the Social Democratic Party in local council of Kitzbuehel .

World Cup victories

Overall, Gerg achieved four victories and another 20 podium places in the World Cup:

date place country discipline
December 12, 1985 Val d'Isère France Departure
November 29, 1986 Park City United States Giant slalom
0August 8, 1989 Las Leñas Argentina Departure
January 20, 1995 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure

media

Michaela Gerg was presented in detail with archive recordings on December 4, 2017 as part of the BR television series Lebenslinien (Michaela Gerg - The flip side of the medal) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Florian Kinast: Michaela Gergs life after cancer . In: The world . November 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ Monika Putschoegl: The village of fast girls . In: The time . February 9, 1996.
  3. ↑ a b Michaela Gerg - The other side of the coin . In: Bavarian television . December 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ Thomas Viewegh: Michaela Gerg - ski racer and standing woman . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . November 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ "OLYMPIA-ALLERLEI" entitled "Michaela Gerg: Season over," Sports Zurich, No. 24 of 26.02.1988, page 13..
  6. ↑ A childhood dream remains unfulfilled . In: Münchner Merkur . April 26, 2009.
  7. ↑ Matthias Leitner in the database of the International Ski Association (English), accessed on January 24, 2017
  8. ↑ Christoph Leischwitz: We are the new ones . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Michaela Gerg-Leitner establishes a foundation . In: Münchner Merkur . October 29, 2012.
  10. ↑ Major personnel changes in the Kitzbühel municipal council . April 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGJM2PWvlw
personal data
SURNAME Gerg, Michaela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerg-Leitner, Michaela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Toelz , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany