Monika Kaserer
Monika Kaserer 
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| birthday | 11th May 1952 (age 68) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Neukirchen am Großvenediger , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 169 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giant slalom , slalom , downhill , combination |
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| society | USC Neukirchen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monika Kaserer (born May 11, 1952 in Neukirchen am Großvenediger ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She started in all disciplines and was one of the strongest giant slalom runners of the 1970s. Kaserer won ten World Cup races , eight of them in the giant slalom, and achieved a total of 42 podium places, won the Giant Slalom World Cup in the 1972/73 season and was second in the overall World Cup in the 1972/73 and 1973/74 seasons. In addition, there are seven top 3 placements in the discipline World Cups and in the overall World Cup. The four-time Austrian champion did not quite come close to her World Cup results at major events . She won two bronze medals in the combination of the 1974 World Championships in St. Moritz and in the slalom of the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , while she was without precious metal at the Olympic Games .
biography
Kaserer took part in ski races as a young child and was accepted into the junior squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) after a youth test race on the Kitzsteinhorn in 1967 . After good results in winter 1968 (among other Salzburg national champion in the slalom, second in the slalom of the Youth Cup of the Alpine countries and two second places in the Austrian Youth Championships), the then 16-year-old of came in early January 1969 at the races Staufen Cup in the Bavarian Oberstaufen first Times in the World Cup . As ninth in the giant slalom and tenth in the slalom, she won her first World Cup points straight away, which she also achieved in seven other races during the winter. In the 1969/70 season, however, Kaserer remained without a single point gain, only in the winter of 1970/71 she again achieved several top 10 results, including a fifth place in the giant slalom of Heavenly Valley as the best result of the season.
The breakthrough to the absolute world leaders succeeded in Pinzgauerin in the 1971-72 season : They scored on 18 December 1971 at the slalom in Sestriere her first World Cup podium and was until the end of season in another slalom and four giant slaloms also among the top three. She finished fourth in the overall World Cup, second in the Giant Slalom World Cup (behind Annemarie Pröll ) and seventh in the Slalom World Cup. She was still without a medal at the highlight of the season, the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo : She was 7th in the slalom, 13th in the giant slalom and 30th in the downhill, with which she finished fourth in the combination that was only rated as a world championship competition.
First World Cup victory in slalom, but overall discipline victory in giant slalom
After two more podium places around the turn of the year 1972/73, including her only World Cup podium in this discipline with second place in the downhill run from Pfronten , Kaserer celebrated her first World Cup victory in the slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald on January 17, 1973. Last year she had already won the Grindelwald combination, which was not part of the World Cup at the time, with second place in the slalom and seventh place in the downhill. The mentioned first victory came about in a somewhat curious way: As second after the first round (0.02 seconds behind Conchita Puig ) she touched a goal post in the second round, causing her glasses to slip, after which she drove according to her statements "without inhibitions because she was only interested in getting at least a few points ". Just four days later, on January 21st, she won the second World Cup in the giant slalom in Les Contamines and on February 11th, she also won the giant slalom in Abetone . With this, Kaserer won the Giant Slalom World Cup in the 1972/73 season in front of her compatriot Annemarie Pröll, while she was second in the overall World Cup behind Pröll, who won the large crystal ball for the third time in a row. She finished the Slalom World Cup in third position.
Combination bronze in St. Moritz
Kaserer celebrated two more World Cup victories in the winter of 1973/74 in the giant slaloms in Grindelwald and Vysoké Tatry . Overall, however, she only achieved three podium places this season (compared to nine in the previous year), which is why she fell slightly behind in the discipline ratings (third in the giant slalom and sixth in the slalom World Cup). In the overall World Cup, however, she was only beaten by Pröll, who won by a large margin of 115 points (Kaserer had 153 World Cup points in second place). At the 1974 World Championships in St. Moritz , Switzerland , Kaserer missed the medal ranks in the individual races as fourth in the downhill, fifth in the giant slalom and seventh in the slalom, but in the combined ranking calculated from these three disciplines she won the bronze medal behind Fabienne Serrat and Hanni Wenzel .
A total of five podium places, including a victory in the last race of the season, the parallel slalom of Val Gardena on March 22, 1975, Kaserer achieved in the winter of 1974/75 . As in the previous year, she was third in the giant slalom and sixth in the slalom World Cup, but in the overall World Cup she fell back to ninth place. Kaserer was able to improve again in the overall standings in the 1975/76 and 1976/77 seasons , when she was third in the final ranking . In both years she achieved two giant slalom victories ( Hasliberg and Mont Sainte-Anne 1976, Megève and Furano 1977) and six further podium places each (in addition to slalom and giant slalom, also in a combination). In addition to third place in the overall World Cup, she finished second in the Giant Slalom World Cup behind the Swiss Lise-Marie Morerod in both seasons . In the Slalom World Cup, however, she only came in tenth place in 1975/76, before she improved back to fourth place in 1976/77.
At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , Kaserer, as he did four years ago in Sapporo, did not come close to the medal ranks. In the giant slalom in particular, she was one of the closest favorites, as up to that point she had been on the podium in four of the five World Cup giant slaloms of the winter. At the games, however, she only finished sixth in the giant slalom, plus a ninth place in the downhill (here she was only placed instead of the sick Elfi Deufl ). In the slalom, she was eliminated in the first run after just a few goals.
Another bronze medal
Two years later, Kaserer won the bronze medal behind Lea Sölkner and Pamela Behr in the slalom of the 1978 World Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the fastest time in the second run . The next day she was eliminated in the second round of the giant slalom after finishing the first run in seventh place. In contrast to the World Cup, Kaserer did not make it into the top three in a slalom in the 1977/78 season for the first time in seven years. Her results in the giant slalom also worsened slightly, but with three podium places she reached fourth place in the Giant Slalom World Cup. Before that she was in the top three of the giant slalom rating for six years. In the overall World Cup, she was eighth, which is the seventh time in a row, but at the same time for the last time, a top 10 place in the overall standings.
In the 1978/79 season , Kaserer could no longer match the results of previous years. It was not until mid-January that she finished tenth in the Hasliberg combination for the first time in the top 10, and seventh in the Pfronten slalom remained her best result of the season. After she remained in the first months of the winter 1979/80 without a top 10 result at all, Kaserer was not nominated for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , whereupon she announced her retirement from ski racing. The end of her career was the Austrian Championships in Aspang-Mariensee at the end of January 1980 , where she took second place in the giant slalom. In 1973 and 1976 , Kaserer won a total of four titles at the Austrian Championships, winning in 1973 in slalom and in 1976 in slalom, giant slalom and combined. In the World Cup from December 1971 to January 1978 she achieved a total of 42 podium places in all disciplines, including eight victories in giant slalom and one each in slalom and in a parallel race.
After her career, Kaserer completed the ski instructor training. She worked for 17 years in the Gerlos ski school , later for several years as a private ski instructor, and was an employee of the WasserWunderWelt in Krimml . In 1982 she gave birth to a son. In 1999 she was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria .
successes
winter Olympics
- Sapporo 1972 : 7th slalom, 13th giant slalom, 30th descent
- Innsbruck 1976 : 6th giant slalom, 9th descent
World championships
- Sapporo 1972 : 4th combination, 7th slalom, 13th giant slalom, 30th descent
- St. Moritz 1974 : 3rd combination, 4th descent, 5th giant slalom, 7th slalom
- Innsbruck 1976 : 6th giant slalom, 9th descent
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 3rd slalom
World Cup ratings
Monika Kaserer won the giant slalom discipline once.
| season | total | Departure | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | |||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1968/69 | 23. | 15th | - | - | 21st | 4th | 15th | 11 | - | - |
| 1970/71 | 19th | 30th | - | - | 15th | 16 | 17th | 14th | - | - |
| 1971/72 | 4th | 120 | 17th | 7th | 2. | 76 | 7th | 37 | - | - |
| 1972/73 | 2. | 223 | 8th. | 28 | 1. | 110 | 3. | 67 | - | - |
| 1973/74 | 2. | 153 | 10. | 12 | 3. | 60 | 6th | 32 | - | - |
| 1974/75 | 9. | 136 | 18th | 4th | 3. | 74 | 6th | 53 | - | - |
| 1975/76 | 3. | 171 | 15th | 17th | 2. | 95 | 10. | 25th | 5. | 24 |
| 1976/77 | 3. | 196 | 13. | 13 | 2. | 93 | 4th | 65 | - | - |
| 1977/78 | 8th. | 76 | 13. | 7th | 4th | 62 | 11. | 15th | - | - |
| 1978/79 | 20th | 61 | - | - | 22nd | 21st | 14th | 39 | - | - |
| 1979/80 | 51. | 8th | - | - | 23. | 8th | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
- 10 World Cup victories (8 giant slaloms, 1 slalom, 1 parallel race)
- 42 podium places (28 giant slaloms, 10 slaloms, 2 combinations, 1 downhill, 1 parallel race)
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| 17th January 1973 | Grindelwald | Switzerland | slalom |
| January 21, 1973 | Les Contamines | France | Giant slalom |
| February 11, 1973 | Abetone | Italy | Giant slalom |
| January 14, 1974 | Grindelwald | Switzerland | Giant slalom |
| March 7th 1974 | Vysoké Tatry | Czechoslovakia | Giant slalom |
| March 22, 1975 | Val Gardena | Italy | Parallel slalom |
| January 9, 1976 | Hasliberg | Switzerland | Giant slalom |
| March 19, 1976 | Mont Sainte-Anne | Canada | Giant slalom |
| January 29, 1977 | Megève | France | Giant slalom |
| February 27, 1977 | Furano | Japan | Giant slalom |
Austrian championships
Four times Austrian champion :
More Achievements
- Victory in the combination in Grindelwald on 18./19. January 1972
Awards (excerpt)
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 189.
- Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , pp. 154–155.
Web links
- Monika Kaserer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Monika Kaserer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Monika Kaserer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ «It's over, I believed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Monika is getting stronger and stronger . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 8, 1976, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Thaddäus Podgorski (Ed.): Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck '76. The official work of the Austrian Olympic Committee. Fritz Molden Verlag, Vienna-Munich-Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-217-00681-X , p. 36.
- ↑ Lea Sölkner's great moment . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1978, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Jack of all trades Annemarie! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1978, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Ice expert Kaserer came up trumps . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 20, 1972, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kaserer, Monika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neukirchen am Großvenediger , Austria |