Mirsad Halilovic

Mirsad Halilovic
nation	Germany
birthday	4th September 1983
place of birth	Berchtesgaden ,  Germany
size	169 cm
Weight	66 kg
job	former police officer, press officer NBCUniversal
Career
discipline	skeleton
society	WSV Königssee
Trainer	Bernhard Lehmann , Raimund Bethge , Sepp Dossthaler
National squad	since 2001
status	not active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 0 ×
Skeleton World Championships gold 2011 Königssee team
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup November 2004 World Cup victories 1 Overall World Cup 6. ( 10/11 ) Debut in the European Cup November 2000 Debut North American Cup January 2008 Debut in the Interconti-Cup January 2008 Interconti victories 11
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  World cup 1 1 1
last change: March 9, 2011

Mirsad "Michi" Halilovic (born September 4, 1983 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German PR manager and former skeleton pilot .

Mirsad Halilovic is of Bosnian origin and last started for WSV Königssee , previously also for RC Berchtesgaden . He has been active in the sport since 2000 and was trained by Bernhard Lehmann , Raimund Bethge and Sepp Dossthaler . The police master candidate was junior world champion in 2005, in 2006 he missed another medal in fourth. He was German junior champion in 2005, fourth in the German championships of the same year, and fifth in 2004 and 2006. In 2008 he won the German Championships for 2009 ahead of Florian Grassl and David Lingmann .

Since 2000 Halilovic started in the European Cup and was third in the 2002/03 season and second in the overall standings in 2003/04. He then switched to the World Cup. In Winterberg he achieved a first outstanding result in 2005 in fourth place, which he improved in 2007 in his first season outings in Cesana with a third and then in Winterberg with a second place behind Alexander Tretyakov . So far he has been placed in the top ten six times. In the 2008/09 season, Halilovic could not qualify for the World Cup team and then entered the racing series including, the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup . There he won the first four of the eight races of the season, finished second and third, and at the end of the season was the overall winner ahead of Chris Type and Alexander Gaszner . His only World Cup race in St. Moritz , where he replaced the one that started at the Junior World Championships, Halilovic finished fourth. At the World Championships in Lake Placid in February 2009, Halilovic finished 5th and thus achieved the best German result at the season highlight. In the 2009/10 World Cup season , he won his first World Cup race in Altenberg . In his first Olympic participation in Vancouver in 2010 , Halilovic finished 13th in the Whistler Sliding Center . In the 2010/11 season he achieved six top 10 finishes in the World Cup and was sixth in the overall standings. At the European Championships in Winterberg he was ninth, at the World Championships in Königssee fifth.

The 2011/12 season began with an accident in which Halilovic tore the disc of his left hand in a training run and severely injured the capsule. So he was forced to take a five-week break and could not take part in the national eliminations for the World Cup, he was still used in the Intercontinental Cup. There he won seven of the eight races held there and secured his second overall victory in this series with an almost 200 point lead over the Canadian Charles Wlodarczak and the British Ed Smith . With this he increased individual victories in the ICC to a total of eleven.

Halilovic ended his sporting career in 2012. The team world champion in skeleton is now using his communication skills as a PR manager in the media industry. He has been speaking for NBCUniversal since 2013 .

Web links

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Krei: Weltmeister does press work at NBC Universal. In: dwdl.de . July 21, 2014, accessed January 23, 2020 .