Natko Zrnčić-Dim

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Natko Zrnčić-Dim Alpine skiing
Natko Zrnčić-Dim in March 2008
Natko Zrnčić-Dim in March 2008
nation CroatiaCroatia Croatia
birthday 7th March 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Zagreb ,  YugoslaviaYugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia 
size 175 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
slalom , combination
society SK Medveščak
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Val d'Isère 2009 Super combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 13, 2004
 Overall World Cup 38th ( 2009/10 )
 Downhill World Cup 30. (2009/10)
 Super G World Cup 48th (2009/10)
 Slalom World Cup 48th (2009/10)
 Combination World Cup 5th ( 2013/14 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 combination 0 1 4th
last change: February 24, 2019

Natko Zrnčić-Dim [ ˈnatkɔ ˈzrntʃitɕ ˈdim ] (born March 7, 1986 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian ski racer . He competes in the World Cup in all disciplines with the exception of giant slalom, but is particularly successful in combinations . His greatest achievement is winning a bronze medal at the 2009 World Cup .

biography

Zrnčić-Dim competed in FIS races for the first time in November 2001, and from December 2003 he was in action at the European Cup races. He made his World Cup debut on December 13, 2004 at the Sestriere slalom . Until the beginning of 2008, he achieved World Cup points exclusively in combination , for the first time in December 2005 with 24th place in Val-d'Isère . At the 2006 Winter Olympics he competed in four disciplines and achieved the best result in 25th place in the giant slalom.

The combination developed into Zrnčić-Dim's specialty. In the 2007/08 season he was 13th in Beaver Creek and on January 11, 2018 in Wengen , he achieved a top 10 placement for the first time in ninth place. A week later, he reached 18th place on the Hahnenkamm run on the Streif in Kitzbühel . The first World Cup podium succeeded Zrnčić-Dim on February 3, 2008 when he finished the super combination of Val-d'Isère in third place. He also came third on January 25, 2009 at the Hahnenkamm Combination in Kitzbühel. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, he first achieved a 19th place in the downhill - his best ever World Championship result. After finishing sixth in the combined descent, he used the good starting situation and finally won the bronze medal in the super combined, relegating Swiss Silvan Zurbriggen to fourth place by a hundredth of a second.

Third place in the super combination of Beaver Creek was Zrncic-Dim's best World Cup result in the 2009/10 season . With tenth place in the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel, he also achieved his only top ten result in a special discipline. In the overall and discipline World Cups, he was able to improve further compared to previous years. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he took part in all five competitions and achieved 19th place in slalom as the best result. On January 30, 2011, Zrnčić-Dim achieved his best World Cup result when he finished second in the Super Combined from Chamonix and, together with the winner Ivica Kostelić, achieved the first Croatian double victory in the history of the Alpine Ski World Cup. Two weeks later he finished eighth in this discipline at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

After four years in which Zrnčić-Dim had reached the podium in one World Cup race, he was again without a podium for the first time in the 2011/12 season . His best result of the season was fifth in the super combined from Wengen. On December 1, 2012, he suffered injuries to his left shoulder in a crash in the Super-G at Beaver Creek. After an operation, he had to take a break for the rest of the season. In the 2013/14 season he was only three times in the points. But there was one outlier among them when he finished third in the super combination of Wengen. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he competed in four disciplines, with 10th place in the super combined being his best result.

The performance curve pointed down from 2014 and Zrnčić-Dim hardly achieved sufficient results in the World Cup. On December 1, 2016, he fell badly while training for the downhill run from Val-d'Isère and suffered a cruciate ligament rupture on his left knee, which meant the premature end of the season. In all World Cup appearances in the 2017/18 season , he missed the points. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he was the flag bearer of Croatia during the opening ceremony. Zrnčić-Dim has not been a member of the Croatian ski team since April 2018. Nevertheless, he took part in the 2019 World Cup in Åre .

successes

Olympic games

  • Turin 2006 : 25th giant slalom, 33rd slalom, 33rd combination, 35th super-G
  • Vancouver 2010 : 19th slalom, 20th super combined, 33rd downhill, 41st giant slalom
  • Sochi 2014 : 10th super combination, 19th super-G, 29th downhill
  • Pyeongchang 2018 : 19th Alpine Combined, 29th Super-G

World championships

World cup

  • 14 placements among the top ten, including 5 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2005/06 137. 7th - - - - - - 44. 7th
2006/07 135. 10 - - - - - - 42. 10
2007/08 58. 137 46. 13 - - - - 8th. 124
2008/09 59. 134 45. 11 - - 55. 11 9. 112
2009/10 38. 199 30th 52 48. 7th 48. 13 7th 127
2010/11 71. 110 46. 14th - - - - 9. 96
2011/12 67. 107 - - 57. 5 - - 10. 102
2013/14 75. 70 - - - - - - 5. 70
2014/15 76. 78 - - 52. 6th - - 7th 72
2015/16 95. 60 54. 6th 54. 5 - - 15th 49

Nor-Am Cup

  • Season 2007/08 : 4th exit Score
  • Season 2013/14 : fourth overall, 3rd downhill standings, 5. Combination results, 7. Super-G standings
  • 2014/15 season : 2nd downhill classification
  • 2015/16 season : 6th downhill classification
  • 9 podium places, including 4 wins:
date place country discipline
December 11th 2013 Copper Mountain United States Departure
December 12th 2013 Copper Mountain United States Departure
December 13, 2013 Copper Mountain United States Super combination
December 11, 2015 Lake Louise Canada Departure

Junior World Championships

  • Serre Chevalier 2003 : 13th combination, 13th slalom, 27th giant slalom, 45th Super-G, 56th descent
  • Maribor 2004 : 15th combination, 23rd slalom, 28th descent, 46th Super-G, 58th giant slalom
  • Bardonecchia 2005 : 13th slalom, 13th combination, 27th descent, 34th Super-G, 40th giant slalom
  • Québec 2006 : 5th downhill, 8th super-G, 8th combination, 15th slalom, 48th giant slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natko Zrncic-Dim. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 16, 2009, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Kostelic wins Super Combination in Chamonix. skiweltcup.tv, January 30, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Natko Zrnčić Dim operiran. Hrvatska radiotelevizija , December 12, 2012, accessed December 19, 2012 (Croatian).
  4. ↑ Teška ozljeda hrvatskog skijaša: Natko Zrnčić-Dim završio sezonu. germanijak.hr, December 1, 2016, accessed on February 24, 2018 (Croatian).
  5. ↑ Skier Natko Zrnčić Dim Will Carry Croatian Flag at Winter Olympic Games. Total Croatia News, February 2, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ SKIJANJE: Natko Zrnčić Dim više nije reprezentativac, Ivica Kostelić ostaje trener. totalinfo.hr, April 21, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019 (Croatian).
personal data
SURNAME Zrnčić-Dim, Natko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Yugoslavia