Nicole Schmidhofer

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Nicole Schmidhofer Alpine skiing
Nicole Schmidhofer in Garmisch 2017
Nicole Schmidhofer in Garmisch 2017
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 15th March 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Friesach , Austria
size 158 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society Union SC Schönberg-Lachtal
status active
Medal table
Alpine World Ski Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 2 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 2017 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Altenmarkt 2007 Super G
gold Altenmarkt 2007 Giant slalom
silver Altenmarkt 2007 combination
bronze Altenmarkt 2007 Departure
bronze Garmisch-Partenk. 2009 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 15, 2007
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 2018/19 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (2018/19)
 Super G World Cup 2. (2018/19)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 2 1
 Super G 1 3 2
last change: March 12, 2020

Nicole "Nici" Schmidhofer (born March 15, 1989 in Friesach , Carinthia ) is an Austrian ski racer from Schönberg-Lachtal in Styria . In the World Cup she mainly starts in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines . Her greatest successes so far are the Super G world championship title in 2017 and victory in the Downhill World Cup of the 2018/19 season .

biography

At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee and Flachau , Schmidhofer was two-time junior world champion in the Super-G and in the giant slalom , won the silver medal in the combination and the bronze medal in the downhill . Then she was able to contest her first two races in the World Cup at the season finale in Lenzerheide in mid-March 2007 and get her first World Cup points with 14th place in the Super-G. On March 28 and 29, 2007, she won the Austrian Downhill and Super-G Championships in Innerkrems .

Nicole Schmidhofer (2008)

In the 2007/08 season Schmidhofer competed in two World Cup descents and took her only World Cup points with 28th place in St. Anton . Things went better in the European Cup , however , where Schmidhofer won her first race with the downhill in Tarvisio and also came third in the downhill and in the Super-G in Caspoggio . With that she finished third in the downhill classification and fourth in the Super-G classification in the 2007/08 season . In the 2008/09 season she was used in the World Cup in all downhill runs and Super-Gs, with the exception of the season finale, and was able to classify herself in the top 20 four times in the Super-G. In Saalbach-Hinterglemm she became Austrian champion in the Super-G for the second time on March 23, 2009 .

Schmidhofer achieved her best World Cup result for over three years on December 20, 2009 in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère , which she finished in twelfth place at the same time as Kathrin Zettel and Anna Fenninger . In the 2009/10 season this was her only placement in the top 20. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she started in the Super-G, but did not finish. In the 2010/11 season Schmidhofer's best World Cup results were 14th and 15th in the Downhill and Super-G from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, while she rarely finished in the 30th fastest. From mid-January to mid-February, she was unable to take part in any races due to an inner ligament tear in her right knee that she suffered during downhill training in Cortina d'Ampezzo . After the 2011 season Schmidhofer rose after five years in the A-team to the B-team of the ÖSV.

Because of a fall during downhill training in Zermatt at the end of September 2011 (unshifted fracture of the left ankle bone and torn muscle fiber on the back of the right thigh) Schmidhofer had to pause in the 2011/12 season until the turn of the year. Then she reached the 19th place in the World Cup runs from St. Moritz and 13th from Sochi ( Krasnaja Polyana ). Nevertheless, she was dismissed from the ÖSV cadre in spring 2012, which is why she had to prepare for the next season in summer 2012 at her own expense.

After good training performance, Schmidhofer still had the opportunity to take part in World Cup races in the 2012/13 season . Until mid-January she was twice in the top 20, before she surprisingly achieved her first World Cup podium finish on January 20, 2013 with second place in the Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the 2013/14 season , she took third place in the downhill (almost one year later to the day, between January 24, 2014, and that with start number 39 - again in Cortina d'Ampezzo) best result, the following winter fourth place in the world championship downhill run from Beaver Creek (February 6, 2015). After five top 10 results at the beginning of winter 2015/16, she tore a cruciate ligament in downhill training in Cortina on January 22, 2016 and had to end the season early. In the 2016/2017 season she celebrated the greatest success of her career so far when she won gold in the Super-G at the World Championship in St. Moritz on February 7th .

She achieved her first World Cup victory on November 30, 2018 in the downhill from Lake Louise . Just one day later, she was also able to win the second race of the double descent. In January 2019, the reigning world champion also achieved her first Super-G World Cup victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the World Championships in Åre , she had to admit defeat as a favorite in both fast disciplines with ranks nine and eleven. On the other hand, she was able to defend the red jersey of the World Cup leaders in the downhill classification until the season finale in Soldeu and was the first Austrian since Renate Götschl (2006/07) to win the crystal ball in this discipline. After the end of the Alpine World Cup season, Schmidhofer also took part in the 2019 Speed ​​Ski World Championship in Vars , France. In the qualification, she set a new Austrian record on March 22, 2019 with 199.778 km / h and exceeded the speed of the previous record holder Conny Seebacher by around 20 km / h. A day later it increased to 212.014 km / h in the semifinals and to 217.590 km / h in the final, which finally took it fourth.

Her uncle is the politician Karl Schmidhofer . Nicole Schmidhofer's mental trainer is the well-known mentalist, author and ORF mental expert Manuel Horeth .

successes

Nicole Schmidhofer (2017)

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 12 podium places, including 4 wins:
date place country discipline
November 30, 2018 Lake Louise Canada Departure
1st December 2018 Lake Louise Canada Departure
January 26, 2019 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Super G
7th December 2019 Lake Louise Canada Departure

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G
space Points space Points space Points
2006/07 104. 18th - - 41. 18th
2007/08 124. 3 51. 3 - -
2008/09 70. 74 40. 17th 26th 57
2009/10 81. 52 49. 8th 28. 44
2010/11 91. 41 36. 22nd 38. 19th
2011/12 86. 32 35. 32 - -
2012/13 45. 172 36. 23 8th. 149
2013/14 20th 320 11. 198 12. 122
2014/15 30th 251 20th 120 12. 131
2015/16 49. 181 21st 113 23. 68
2016/17 15th 448 8th. 208 7th 240
2017/18 17th 458 9. 198 7th 262
2018/19 5. 771 1. 468 2. 303
2019/20 9. 445 9. 228 3. 217

European Cup

  • 2007/08 season : 3rd downhill classification, 4th super-G classification
  • 4 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 31, 2008 Tarvisio Italy Departure

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Nicole Schmidhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmidhofer has to take a break after a fall.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Austrian Ski Association, January 19, 2011, accessed on September 23, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oesv.at  
  2. ↑ For a long ski break for Nicole Schmidhofer. ( Memento from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Austrian Ski Association, September 26, 2011, accessed on September 26, 2011.
  3. ↑ A career at risk. Kleine Zeitung , May 15, 2012, archived from the original on November 12, 2012 . ;.
  4. ^ Schmidhofer: Season end after cruciate ligament tear. Kronen Zeitung , January 16, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Nicole Schmidhofer shines again in Lake Louise (December 1, 2018)
  6. ↑ Great "double" for Niki Schmidhofer (December 1st, 2018)
  7. ↑ Schmidhofer is the new downhill queen. ORF , March 13, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Schmidhofer breaks the Austrian record on kleinezeitung.at, accessed on March 23, 2019
  9. ↑ Schmidhofer faster than ever. sport.orf.at, March 23, 2019, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Politics internal: National Council mandate from Krenn goes to Schmidhofer . Article dated April 5, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidhofer, Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidhofer, Nici (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Friesach (Carinthia) , Carinthia , Austria