Patrick Bussler comes from Aschheim and starts for the local club FC Aschheim . Patrick has two brothers with whom he has been playing sports since he was a child. Like his brothers, he started out with alpine skiing , but switched to snowboarding at the age of ten. In 1999 he competed in his first FIS race and at the beginning of 2000 he made his first appearance in the European Cup . At the German championships this year he made it onto the podium for the first time with third place in the giant slalom. At 17 he was accepted into the national youth squad and the first top ten placements in FIS races and in the European Cup followed. At the beginning of 2001 he started in the World Cup for the first time and finished 56th in a parallel slalom in Berchtesgaden . In 2002 his first Junior World Championships followed in Rovaniemi , where an 11th place in the parallel giant slalom was the best result. The next major event was the 2003 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg which, with 32nd place in the parallel slalom, did not go so well. The 2003 Junior World Championships went a little better with 6th place in snowboard cross .
At the age of 19, he switched to the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr and was increasingly used in the World Cup. At his last Junior World Championships in 2004, he finished fifth and seventh. At the Snowboard World Championships 2005 in Whistler he could not convince again with places 25 and 34. For this he won his first runner-up title at the German championships this year with second place in the parallel giant slalom.
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