Michaela Kirchgasser

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Michaela Kirchgasser Alpine skiing
Michi Kirchgasser 2010
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 18th March 1985 (age 35)
place of birth Schwarzach im Pongau , Austria
size 169 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Union Sportklub Raika Filzmoos
status resigned
End of career March 10, 2018
Medal table
World championships 3 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
European Youth
Olympic Festival 		0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Are 2007 team
silver Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 team
gold Schladming 2013 team
silver Schladming 2013 slalom
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 team
bronze Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 combination
bronze St. Moritz 2017 combination
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Briançonnais 2003 slalom
silver Briançonnais 2003 combination
bronze Bardonecchia 2005 slalom
European Youth Olympic FestivalTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver Vuokatti 2001 Parallel slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 9, 2001
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 2006/07 )
 Downhill World Cup 48th ( 2010/11 )
 Super G World Cup 36th ( 2009/10 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd (2006/07)
 Slalom World Cup 2. ( 2011/12 )
 Combination World Cup 2. ( 2013/14 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 1 1 3
 slalom 2 0 1
 combination 0 4th 3
 Parallel races 0 1 1
 team 3 0 3
 
Michaela Kirchgasser 2006 in Aspen

Michaela Kirchgasser (born March 18, 1985 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) is a former Austrian ski racer . It started mainly in slalom and giant slalom competitions as well as in super combinations . At world championships she won three gold medals in team competition as well as a silver medal in slalom and two bronze medals in combination.

biography

Kirchgasser grew up in Filzmoos and started skiing at the age of three. After elementary school, she first switched to the main ski school in Schladming. She then attended the ski trade school there and also the HAK Matura course, which she successfully completed in 2006.

Kirchgasser celebrated her first successes in the 1999/2000 season when she won the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino and the Whistler Cup and became Austrian school champion in giant slalom and combined. After winning her first of eight Austrian youth championship titles and the silver medal in the parallel slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Vuokatti in 2001, she was allowed to compete in a world cup race for the first time in the Sestriere slalom in December 2001 . With start number 77, she went straight to 17th. Her second World Cup race three weeks later she even finished 14th. The following season 2002/03 she finished with winning the junior world championship in slalom and her first place in the top ten of a world cup race. In the next two years a top ten place was added and in the 2005/06 season she reached a place in the top ten in ten races and finished in 20th place in the overall World Cup. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she finished 5th in the slalom and 6th place in the combination.

For the 2006/07 season , she was promoted to the national team of the ÖSV women. On November 25, 2006 she reached third place in the giant slalom in Aspen and was on the podium for the first time in her career. She achieved another top 3 place on December 15, 2006 in the super combination on the Reiteralm , where she came second. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , she won the gold medal in the team competition , achieved fourth place in giant slalom and ninth place in slalom. On February 24, 2007, she won her first World Cup race, the giant slalom in the Sierra Nevada . She finished the season third in the Giant Slalom World Cup, fourth in the Combined World Cup and eighth in the overall World Cup.

The 2007/08 season was less successful, the best results were two seventh places. In the 2008/09 season , she achieved her sixth podium finish in the World Cup in the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 25 with second place. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she was fifth in the giant slalom. A week later, Kirchgasser had a serious fall during downhill training in Tarvisio on February 19, suffered a cartilage impression fracture in his left thigh and had to end the season prematurely.

In the winter of 2009/10 Kirchgasser achieved her best results in the super combined. She was fourth in Val-d'Isère and second in St. Moritz and thus third in the World Cup. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , she finished ninth in the super combined and 15th in the giant slalom. Also in the 2010/11 season , the super combination was her strongest discipline. As the best result of the season, she achieved fifth place in the great combination of Åre. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she won the silver medal in the team competition, and came 13th in the super combined.

In the 2011/12 season , Kirchgasser in Zagreb was third in a World Cup slalom for the first time at the beginning of the new year. On January 22nd, 2012 she won the Kranjska Gora slalom with the fastest time in both rounds. On February 21, she took second place in the City Event (parallel competition) in Moscow: after victories against Anna Fenninger (round of 16), Tina Maze (quarter-finals) and Maria Höfl-Riesch (semi-finals), she was defeated in the final by US-American Julia Mancuso . At the World Cup final in Schladming , Kirchgasser won her second slalom victory, overtaking Tina Maze in the Slalom World Cup and finishing second behind Marlies Schild . At the end of the season in Schladming, she won the slalom competition and the team competition together with Eva-Maria Brem , Marcel Mathis and Philipp Schörghofer . After the season, Kirchgasser underwent knee surgery.

At the 2013 World Championships in Schladming , Kirchgasser took the thankless fourth place in the super combination. A few days later she became team world champion for the second time with the Austrian team, in slalom she won the silver medal. The 2012/13 World Cup season , on the other hand, was less successful: two third places were matched by failures in six of nine slaloms. At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , she won the bronze medal in the super combination and gold in the team competition. At the following World Championships in 2017 in St. Moritz , she again won bronze in combination.

Kirchgasser was Austrian national champion in downhill in 2002 and 2008 , in combination in 2003 and 2008 and in 2007 in giant slalom.

Michaela Kirchgasser has been married to Sebastian Kirchgasser since May 7, 2016 - he bears the same family name without being related to her.

On March 10, 2018, Kirchgasser ended her career in the slalom in Ofterschwang.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination CityEvent
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2001/02 89. 32 - - - - - - 33. 32 - - - -
2002/03 81. 40 - - - - - - 36. 40 - - - -
2003/04 63. 100 - - - - 48. 9 25th 91 - - - -
2004/05 58. 103 - - - - 25th 70 31. 33 - - - -
2005/06 20th 422 - - - - 9. 227 14th 175 20th 20th - -
2006/07 8th. 657 - - - - 3. 357 13. 148 4th 152 - -
2007/08 33. 235 - - - - 18th 83 13. 120 21st 32 - -
2008/09 22nd 334 - - - - 10. 188 20th 96 17th 50 - -
2009/10 19th 360 51. 6th 36. 23 15th 136 24. 65 3. 130 - -
2010/11 21st 326 48. 3 47. 6th 17th 76 16. 126 6th 100 9. 15th
2011/12 10. 636 - - - - 21st 104 2. 452 - - 2. 80
2012/13 14th 448 - - - - 16. 153 12. 206 3. 89 3. 100
2013/14 25th 274 - - - - 30th 43 15th 150 2. 80 - -
2014/15 29 253 - - - - 22nd 70 16. 144 8th. 32 - -
2015/16 15th 616 - - 50. 4th 12. 179 10. 280 3. 153 - -
2016/17 28. 308 - - - - 18th 134 26th 69 4th 105 - -
2017/18 99 24 - - - - - - 41. 24 - - - -

World Cup victories

  • 17 podium places in individual races, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
February 24, 2007 Sierra Nevada Spain Giant slalom
January 22, 2012 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
March 17, 2012 Schladming Austria slalom

European Cup

date place country discipline
January 19, 2003 Tonale Pass Italy slalom
December 6, 2004 Ål Norway Giant slalom
December 7, 2004 Ål Norway Giant slalom
December 11, 2004 Schruns Austria Giant slalom
February 9, 2005 Rogla Slovenia slalom
March 11, 2005 Roccaraso Italy Giant slalom
January 30, 2008 Tarvisio Italy Super combination

Junior World Championships

  • Tarvisio 2002 : 5th slalom, 7th combination, 15th giant slalom, 15th Super-G, 33rd descent
  • Briançonnais 2003 : 1st slalom, 2nd combination, 4th giant slalom, 16th descent
  • Maribor 2004 : 6th combination, 7th slalom, 10th descent, 24th giant slalom
  • Bardonecchia 2005 : 3rd giant slalom, 5th slalom, 7th super-G

More Achievements

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaela Kirchgasser won medals at Austrian junior championships. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ÖSV winner board, accessed on February 22, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesv.at
  2. ↑ VUOKATTI '01 / Austria.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. eurolympic.org, accessed February 22, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eurolympic.org  
  3. ↑ Michi Kirchgasser also said "Yes!"
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Kirchgasser, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzach im Pongau , Austria