Norbert Holzknecht

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Norbert Holzknecht Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday April 13, 1976
place of birth Grin
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society WSV Grinzens
WSV Tux-Lanersbach
status resigned
End of career 2007
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Voss 1995 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 6, 1996
 Overall World Cup 69th ( 2003/04 )
 Downhill World Cup 29th (2003/04)
 Super G World Cup 38th (2003/04)
 

Norbert Holzknecht (born April 13, 1976 in Grinzens ) is a former Austrian ski racer . His specialty disciplines were downhill and super-G . He achieved three top 10 placements in the World Cup and 17 victories in the European Cup .

biography

At the age of seven, Holzknecht attended a racing school with Hugo Nindl , and in 1986 and 1987 he became Tyrolean children's champion. After elementary school, he attended secondary school in Axams for two years before switching to main ski school in Neustift . In his age group Student II, Holzknecht was Austrian student champion in Super-G in 1991, and in 1995 he was Austrian youth champion in downhill in the age group Youth II. He started in FIS races and was accepted into the ÖSV squad in 1994, followed by his first appearances in the European Cup and participation in the Junior World Championship in 1995 in Voss , where he won the silver medal in the downhill.

On January 15, 1996 Holzknecht celebrated his first European Cup victory in the downhill from Les Orres , followed two weeks later by the second victory in the downhill from Veysonnaz . In the 1995/96 season he won the European Cup downhill classification for the first time. At the end of this winter he was used for the first time in the World Cup at the finals in Kvitfjell , where he finished 20th and last. After his European Cup discipline victory and the associated World Cup fixed starting place, Holzknecht initially only competed in World Cup descents in the winter of 1997/1998. But since a 17th place in the opening race in Val-d'Isère remained his best result and he then mostly only achieved places around 30th, he was relegated to the European Cup. In the 1997/98 season , Holzknecht again won the European Cup downhill classification with two victories in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee and Megève , whereupon he came to further World Cup starts at the beginning of the 1998/1999 season. His best result of the season he achieved again in the opening race in Val-d'Isère as 15th, but then he remained without World Cup points, whereupon he had to start again in the European Cup.

After a weak 1999/2000 season, Holzknecht was able to qualify again for the World Cup via the European Cup in winter 2000/01 . He celebrated two victories in Les Orres and Sestriere and was tied for second in the European Cup downhill classification with Klaus Kröll from Styria , which secured him a fixed starting place in this discipline for the next World Cup winter 2001/2002. But again Holzknecht could not gain a foothold in the World Cup, a 20th place in the first downhill from Val Gardena was his best result of the season. He had to take a break for the whole of January due to an injury, after which he started again in the European Cup. In the winter of 2002/03 Holzknecht was the dominant European cup runner in the speed disciplines. He won six out of nine downhill runs and three out of six Super-G, with which he not only won both disciplines, but also the European Cup. In addition, he became Austrian downhill champion for the first time in 2003 .

With this, Holzknecht was able to return to the World Cup, where he achieved a total of three top 10 results in the next few years, but had to pause several times after injuries. Holzknecht achieved his first top 10 result in the World Cup on December 20, 2003 when he was ninth on the downhill run from Val Gardena. A month later, however , the 2003/04 season came to an end for him after he suffered a torn patellar tendon while driving in for the training run on the Kitzbüheler Streif . In the following 2004/05 season , Holzknecht once again finished eighth on the downhill from Val Gardena, once again among the top ten, but after a fall on the downhill from Chamonix on January 8th, during which he suffered a concussion , he came to the rest of the winter no further World Cup appearances. Once again on the Saslong in Val Gardena, Holzknecht achieved the best World Cup result of winter 2005/06 with tenth place in the downhill . Due to a new injury, the season came to an end for him shortly afterwards. The then 30-year-old had his last start in the World Cup on December 16, 2006 in the downhill run from Val Gardena, where he finished 30th. At the end of winter 2006/2007 Holzknecht ended his career with the start at the Austrian Championships in Innerkrems , where he won the downhill title a second time. He has been working as a trainer since the end of his active career.

successes

World cup

  • 3 placements among the top ten

European Cup

  • 30 podium places, of which 17 wins:
date place country discipline
January 15, 1996 Les Orres France Departure
January 27, 1996 Veysonnaz Switzerland Departure
January 12, 1998 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Departure
January 30, 1998 Megève France Departure
January 31, 2001 Les Orres France Departure
March 6, 2001 Sestriere Italy Departure
March 5, 2002 Tignes France Departure
March 7, 2002 Tignes France Departure
December 19, 2002 Laax Switzerland Departure
December 20, 2002 Laax Switzerland Departure
January 12, 2003 Lech Austria Super G
January 15, 2003 Veysonnaz Switzerland Super G
February 6, 2003 Les Orres France Departure
February 7, 2003 Les Orres France Departure
February 14, 2003 Sella Nevea Italy Super G
February 19, 2003 Tarvisio Italy Departure
February 20, 2003 Tarvisio Italy Departure

Junior World Championships

  • Voss 1995 : 2nd descent, 9th giant slalom, 28th slalom

Austrian championships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the Grinzens winter sports club. In: Der Grinziger. Special edition commemorative publication 200th anniversary, No. 19 / October 2011, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Norbert Holzknecht won medals at Austrian school championships. ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ÖSV winner board, accessed on October 7, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oesv.at
  3. ↑ Norbert Holzknecht won medals at Austrian youth championships. ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ÖSV winner board, accessed on October 7, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oesv.at
  4. ↑ Kitzbühel: Eberharter in training ahead. DiePresse.com , January 21, 2004, accessed October 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Heavy fog in Wengen: Second training for the Lauberhorn descent has been canceled! News.at , January 12, 2005, accessed October 7, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Holzknecht, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Grinzens , Tyrol