Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce

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Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce Alpine skiing
nation IrelandIreland Ireland
birthday 5th July 1972
place of birth London ,  UK
job Ski trainer
Career
discipline Super-G, downhill,
combination
status resigned
End of career 2002
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 29, 1997
 

Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce , Paul (us) Schwarzacher for short (born July 5, 1972 in London , United Kingdom ) is a former alpine skier who took part in three World Ski Championships and two Winter Olympic Games for Ireland .

Career

Schwarzacher-Joyce was born in London in 1972 to an Austrian father and an Irish mother. He grew up in St. Anton am Arlberg in winter , where he learned to ski and where he lives today. In the Alpine Ski World Cup Schwarzacher-Joyce started from 1997, almost exclusively in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super-G . He mastered many of the classic World Cup slopes such as the Saslong in Val Gardena, the Lauberhorn run or the Kitzbüheler Streif - albeit often as the slowest. He achieved his best result in 1999 with 15th place in the Hahnenkamm Combined , but received no World Cup points because he was too late.

At the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1997 , Schwarzacher-Joyce started in all five disciplines and achieved his best result in the combination with rank 25. Two years later at the World Championships in Vail , he concentrated on downhill and Super-G as well as the Alpine combination. In 2001 in St. Anton , Schwarzacher-Joyce was not allowed to start in the fast disciplines, so it remained in the giant slalom .

Patrick-Paul Schwarzacher-Joyce was a member of the Irish team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City. In Nagano he started in the downhill as well as in the combination, which he finished in places 27 and 15. In 2002, Schwarzacher-Joyce competed in the Super-G in addition to downhill and combined, but his results lagged behind those of 1998. After the Olympic Games, he ended his international skiing career.

As a mainstay for his later professional life, Schwarzacher completed a degree in sports science with a master's degree. In 2002 and 2003 he worked as a ski trainer in Liechtenstein and then started working as a fitness trainer in the Austrian Ski Association. Since 2008 he has been the technical trainer of the Austrian men's world cup team. In his private life, Schwarzacher is still active as an extreme skier. In 2011, he won the “Weißer Rausch” ski race over 1,500 meters from Valluga to St. Anton for the ninth time .

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

World championships

  • Sestriere 1999 : 25th combination, 39th descent, 39th giant slalom, failure of Super-G and slalom
  • Vail 1999 : 22nd Combination, 36th Downhill, 42nd Super-G
  • St. Anton 2001 : 37th giant slalom

World cup

  • 15th place (combination in Kitzbühel 1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irish skier's lasting impression. BBC, February 11, 2002, accessed January 21, 2012 .
  2. ^ ÖSV supervisor database. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved January 21, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oesv.at
  3. ↑ Schwarzacher wins White Rush again. ORF Tirol, accessed on January 21, 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schwarzacher-Joyce, Patrick-Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarzacher, Paulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH London