Mitja Dragšič
Mitja Dragšič 
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| birthday | 21st July 1979 (age 41) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Miklavž na Dravskem Polju , Yugoslavia | |||||||||
| size | 182 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | slalom | |||||||||
| society | SK Branik Maribor | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | March 2011 | |||||||||
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Mitja Dragšič (born July 21, 1979 in Miklavž na Dravskem Polju ) is a former Slovenian ski racer . In the World Cup, he initially started in the slalom and giant slalom disciplines and became a pure slalom specialist in the course of his career. Dragšič was Junior World Champion in 1997 and achieved eight top 10 placements in the World Cup. At the world championships, his best result was eighth place in slalom in 2005 , while the four-time Slovenian champion was unsuccessful in his two Olympics .
biography
Dragšič achieved his first international success in 1994 by winning the giant slalom and the Super-G in the Whistler Cup . After taking part in FIS races from January 1995 , he became the Slalom Junior World Champion in Schladming in 1997 . As such, he made his World Cup debut in the finals of the 1996/1997 season in Vail , but retired in the first slalom run. During the next four years he only came to two other World Cup appearances.
From the 1997/1998 season Dragšič started regularly in the European Cup . The first podium and the first of a total of four European Cup victories he achieved in February 2001. In the 2000/01 season he reached the third and the following winter second place in the European Cup slalom classification. From the 2001/02 season Dragšič also took part regularly in slaloms and giant slaloms in the World Cup. After initially not having a result, he won his first World Cup points on January 6th, 2002 with twelfth place in the Adelboden slalom . At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he started differently than in the World Cup in the combination, but was disqualified in the downhill. At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , in addition to the combination, which he finished in 13th place, he also started in slalom and giant slalom, where he took 19th and 28th place respectively.
In the next few years Dragšič concentrated increasingly on the slalom and played his last World Cup giant slalom in December 2003. In this discipline he had never qualified for the second round of the top 30. In World Cup slalom Dragšič achieved a total of five top 10 results from November 2002 to December 2004, with a fourth place in the Flachau slalom being his best result. At the 2005 World Cup in Bormio , he also achieved a good placement in eighth place. However, he kept falling out, which meant that he remained completely without World Cup points in the 2005/06 season and was therefore not in the Slovenian squad for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
In the 2006/07 season Dragšič was able to score again in three World Cup slaloms and finally he returned to the top of the world at the end of the 2007/08 season with sixth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , fifth place in Zagreb and fourth place in Bormio . As 16th of the Slalom World Cup he achieved his best overall result this winter. However, he was not able to repeat these results subsequently. In the 2008/09 season he was in the top 20 four times, but in the winter of 2009/10 he only scored once and in his last season 2010/11 he never reached the second round in any World Cup races. Dragšič had been without results at major events since 2007. Both at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships and at the 2010 Winter Olympics , he failed in the first slalom run. He did not take part in the 2011 World Cup. In March 2011 Dragšič announced his retirement from alpine ski racing.
successes
World championships
- St. Moritz 2003 : 13th combination, 19th slalom, 28th giant slalom
- Bormio 2005 : 8th slalom
World cup
- 8 placements among the top ten
European Cup
- 2000/01 season : 3rd slalom classification
- 2001/02 season : 2nd slalom classification
- 14 podium places, including 4 wins
Junior World Championships
- Schladming 1997 : 1st slalom, 8th descent, 8th Super-G
- Megève 1998 : 4th giant slalom, 8th Super-G, 30th downhill
- Pra Loup 1999 : 3rd giant slalom, 8th Super-G, 10th slalom, 11th descent
More Achievements
- 4 Slovenian championship titles (slalom 2002 and 2006, combination 1999, super combination 2009)
- 2 podium places in the Nor-Am Cup
- 12 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Mitja Dragšič in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Mitja Dragšič in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Mitja Dragšič in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sci: Mitja Dragšič chiude la carriera. www.fantaski.it, March 7, 2011, accessed May 2, 2011 (Italian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dragšič, Mitja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miklavž na Dravskem Polju , Yugoslavia (today: Slovenia ) |