Miha Kürner

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Miha Kürner Alpine skiing
Miha Kürner in January 2008
Miha Kürner in January 2008
nation SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
birthday February 27, 1987
place of birth Ljubljana
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , combination
society SK Bled
status active
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Altenmarkt 2007 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 16, 2008
 Overall World Cup 131st ( 2010/2011 )
 Slalom World Cup 55th ( 2014/15 )
 Combination World Cup 37th (2010/2011)
last change: March 22, 2015

Miha Kürner (born February 27, 1987 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian ski racer . His strengths lie in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom as well as in the super combination . He won the bronze medal in combination at the Junior World Championships in 2007 , has been competing in the World Cup since the 2008/2009 season and was Slovenian champion in giant slalom in 2010 .

Career

Kürner won the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup in 2000 and drove his first FIS race in December 2002. From 2004 to 2007 he took part in four Junior World Championships . He achieved his best results in 2007 in Altenmarkt / Flachau : He was among the top ten in all four individual races and thus won the bronze medal in the combination calculated from the times of slalom, giant slalom and downhill. From 2005 to 2007 he won five Slovenian junior championship titles. In the European Cup , Kürner has been regularly at the start since the 2006/2007 season. On November 9th, 2007 he finished sixth in the indoor slalom in the ski hall in Landgraaf for the first time among the top ten. During the next four years this was his best European Cup result. He achieved another top 10 result only once during this time, on March 13, 2009 with ninth place in the giant slalom in Crans-Montana . In March 2010 he became Slovenian champion in giant slalom.

In the World Cup , Kürner has been in action since November 2008 in the disciplines of slalom, giant slalom and the rare super combination. In his 16th World Cup race, the Super Combined by Bansko on February 27, 2011, he won his first and so far only World Cup points as 19th. In the slalom and giant slalom disciplines, he has not yet been able to qualify for the second round of the fastest 30. On December 21, 2011, Kürner achieved his first podium in the European Cup with second place in the City Event in St. Vigil / Kronplatz . 13 months later, on January 27, 2013, he celebrated his first European Cup victory in the slalom on the Großer Arber .

successes

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 20

European Cup

  • 3 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 27, 2013 Big Arber Germany slalom

More Achievements

  • Slovene champion in giant slalom 2010
  • 5 times Slovenian junior champion (combination 2005, slalom and giant slalom 2006, super-G and downhill 2007)
  • 7 victories in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Miha Kürner in the 2007/2008 squad brochure of the Slovenian Ski Association (PDF, 2.35 MB)