Nick Baumgartner
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| Full name | Nick Baumgartner | ||||||||||||
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| birthday | 17th December 1981 (age 38) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Iron River , Michigan , United States | ||||||||||||
| size | 184 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg | ||||||||||||
| job | Snowboarder | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Snowboard cross | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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Nick Baumgartner (born December 17, 1981 in Iron River , Michigan ) is an American snowboarder . He starts almost exclusively in the discipline snowboard cross , rarely in slopestyle . He has also been active in rallying since 2011.
Career
Snowboard
Nick Baumgartner was successful in other sports before his professional snowboard career. He played college - Football in Michigan All-State team, was wrestler , but also as a hurdler and Baseball active. He first drew attention to himself with snowboarding in 2004 when he won the snowboard cross competitions at both the USASA Nationals and the US Extreme Boarderfest.
Baumgartner made his World Cup debut in March 2005 in Lake Placid in a snowboard cross. After that he started until February 2007 only in FIS and North America Cup races without achieving outstanding successes. His first victory in a race of the North America Cup succeeded in Tamarack ( Idaho ) in February 2007, with the second place on 17 March 2007 he was able to reach the first podium finish in the World Cup and ended the season scoring in the Cross of the 2006/2007 season on 5th place, which meant 49th place overall. In the following season he achieved his first World Cup victory in the seventh race of the season, again in Lake Placid. In the overall World Cups of the season it was enough for seventeenth place in the discipline ranking and 53rd place in the overall ranking.
In Chapelco , Argentina , he started the 2008/2009 season successfully, a victory in the South American Cup was followed by fourth place in the first World Cup competition of the season , which was also his fourth top ten result in the World Cup. He recorded two further top 10 results in Arosa and in early 2009 in Bad Gastein . A few days later he achieved his greatest success to date when he finished third in snowboard cross at the World Championships in South Korea . In January 2009 he was fifth in snowboard cross at the Winter X Games . So far he has only started in snowboard cross at the World Cup, and occasionally also in slopestyle at FIS races .
In his first Olympic participation in Vancouver in 2010 , he reached 20th place in snowboard cross. In February 2011 he won his second World Cup victory at Stoneham . At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham , he achieved seventh place in snowboard cross. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he came in 25th place.
At the 2015 Snowboard World Championship in snowboard cross, he finished third in January in Kreischberg .
Baumgartner started for the third time at the Winter Olympics in 2018 and the 36-year-old finished fourth in snowboard cross on February 15 in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang .
Rallying
He has also been active in rallying since 2011 . Immediately after the successes in his first season, he was named “Rookie of the Year”
Personal
Baumgartner lives with his partner and son Landon in his native Iron River in the US state of Michigan.
Sporting successes
Snowboard
- 2008 Victory at the World Cup in Lake Placid in snowboard cross
- 2009 3rd place at the world championships in Gangwon in snowboard cross
- 2011 victory at the World Cup in Stoneham in snowboard cross
winter Olympics 
| date | place | discipline | space |
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| Feb 15, 2010 |
 Vancouver
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Snowboard cross | 20th |
| Feb 22, 2014 |
 Sochi
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25th | |
| Feb. 24, 2018 |
 Pyeongchang
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15th |
World Cup overall placements (snowboard cross)
| season | space | Points |
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| Snowboard World Cup 2006/07 | 5. | 1264 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2007/08 | 17th | 1576 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2008/09 | 3. | 3400 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2009/10 | 5. | 2090 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2010/11 | 6th | 2048 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2011/12 | 7th | 2180 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2012/13 | 5. | 2520 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2015/16 | 6th | 2396 |
| Snowboard World Cup 2016/17 | 9. | 1730 |
Winter X Games
| year | 2009 Los Angeles |
2010 Los Angeles |
2012 Los Angeles |
2015 Aspen (Colorado) |
| discipline | Snowboard cross | Snowboard cross | Snowboard cross | Snowboard cross |
| placement | 5. | 6th | 2. | 4th |
Web links
- Nick Baumgartner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Nick Baumgartner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Biography at expn.go.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Veteran snowboard cross racer Nick Baumgartner Still Has Golden Olympic Dreams (January 11, 2017)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Baumgartner, Nick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bummie (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iron River , Michigan |