Patrick Küng

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Patrick Küng Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 11th January 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Switzerland
size 181 cm
Weight 83 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society SC Mürtschen Kerenzerberg
status resigned
End of career January 23, 2019
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 16, 2009
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 10. ( 2013/14 )
 Downhill World Cup 5th (2013/14)
 Super G World Cup 3rd (2013/14)
 Combination World Cup 36th ( 2008/09 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 1 1
 Super G 1 1 0
 

Patrick Küng (born January 11, 1984 ) is a former Swiss ski racer . He specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. He achieved his greatest success in 2015 with the world title in downhill.

biography

Junior period and establishment

Küng contested his first FIS races in December 1999 and was accepted into the junior squad of the Swiss Ski Association in 2001. He achieved his first international success by winning the slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2001. In February 2002 he took part in a European Cup race for the first time , but did not start regularly until the 2004/05 season . In February 2004 Küng took part in the Junior World Championship in Maribor and finished fourth in the giant slalom as the best result. Six weeks later he was third in the combined ranking at the 2004 Swiss Championships . On November 24, 2004, Küng achieved eighth place in the knockout slalom in the ski hall of Landgraaf for the first time a top 10 place in the European Cup. He achieved the second on February 2, 2006 with sixth place in the super combined of Veysonnaz .

A little later, however, Küng's career suffered a serious setback: On March 8, 2006, he sustained serious leg injuries in giant slalom training and was therefore unable to contest any races for the entire 2006/07 season. Since his injury he has been particularly successful in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines. In his comeback season 2007/08 he reached two top 10 placements in the European Cup. He celebrated his first European Cup victory on December 17th, 2008 in the downhill on Patscherkofel and a month later he won both downhill runs in Les Orres . With these successes he secured himself the win of the downhill classification in the 2008/09 season and the promotion to the Swiss A-team.

Successes in the world cup and world championship title

Küng made his first start in the World Cup on January 16, 2009 in the Super Combined in Wengen , where he finished 19th and scored his first World Cup points straight away. After three races without points , he finished 22nd on March 7th in the second downhill run from Kvitfjell . Shortly afterwards , he became the Swiss runner-up in the downhill, behind Tobias Grünenfelder . At the beginning of the 2009/10 European Cup season , Küng achieved first and second places in the two Super-Gs on the Reiteralm and at the end of the season third place in the discipline classification. On March 10, 2010, he made it onto the podium for the first time in a World Cup race when he finished third at the same time as Erik Guay at the World Cup final in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . His best World Cup results had previously been two eleventh places in the 2009/10 season . Nine days later he became Swiss downhill champion for the first time .

In the 2010/11 season , Küng was among the top ten in seven World Cup races (five downhill runs and two Super-G). The best result was fourth place in the downhill from Bormio on December 29, 2010. A week later, he fell during Super-G training in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , whereupon he missed the races in Wengen. Due to illness, he was unable to participate in the team's internal qualification for the World Cup downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , which is why he was not used at the 2011 World Cup . Küng achieved three top 10 places in the winter of 2011/12 , finishing second on the downhill from Bormio on the podium for the second time and achieving his best World Cup result so far. However, the season ended prematurely for him at the end of February after he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee in a crash in the Super-G in Crans-Montana .

In the 2013/14 season , Patrick Küng won the Super-G at Beaver Creek for the first time in a World Cup race on December 7, 2013 . On January 18, 2014, he won his first downhill run on the Lauberhorn in Wengen . Due to the strong wind in the upper part of the route, this was driven in a shortened version. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Küng initially failed to match the performance of the pre-winter season. After he was eliminated in three races, he finished fourth on the Lauberhorn (equivalent to the best World Cup result this year). In the first race of the 2015 World Championship in Vail / Beaver Creek , the Super-G, he only finished 16th. Under these circumstances, rather unexpectedly, two days later, on February 7, 2015, he won the downhill gold medal ahead of Travis Ganong and Beat Feuz .

For the 2017/18 season, Patrick Küng will no longer be nominated for the national team and will find himself in the senior squad for the time being.

Injuries

In the summer of 2015, Küng suffered an injury to the patellar tendon of his left knee and was unable to train for several months. Although he classified himself ninth on the downhill of Beaver Creek on December 4, his results were significantly worse after that. Finally, on January 8, 2016, he announced the premature termination of the season.

Küng was able to start the 2016/17 season again, with a seventh place in the downhill on December 3 in Val-d'Isère . After that, however, the results were largely unsatisfactory. Also in the Super-G at the World Championships in St. Moritz he was only able to reach 22nd place, so that fourth place in the downhill meant a surprise, whereby he (at the same time as Kjetil Jansrud ) missed the bronze medal by two hundredths of a second.

After a training crash in Wengen, Küng announced the end of his career on January 23, 2019.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 5 podium places, including two wins:
date place country discipline
December 7, 2013 Beaver Creek United States Super G
January 18, 2014 Wengen Switzerland Departure

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2008/09 113. 21st 47. 9 - - 36. 12
2009/10 40. 196 16. 150 29 35 41. 11
2010/11 33. 262 11. 210 24. 52 - -
2011/12 44. 213 20th 171 33. 42 - -
2012/13 56. 131 27. 88 24. 43 - -
2013/14 10. 562 5. 307 3. 255 - -
2014/15 21st 384 8th. 280 18th 104 - -
2015/16 101. 56 33. 44 48. 12 - -
2016/17 56. 126 20th 114 42. 12 - -
2017/18 87. 51 27. 51 - - - -
2018/19 116. 23 40. 23 - - - -

European Cup

date place country discipline
December 17, 2008 Patscherkofel Austria Departure
January 28, 2009 Les Orres France Departure
January 28, 2009 Les Orres France Departure
November 9, 2009 Reiteralm Austria Super G

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Küng fell - Lauberhorn start questionable. skionline.ch, January 6, 2011, accessed on October 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Carlo Janka gives forfait! - Patrick Küng throws in the towel. skionline.ch, February 10, 2011, accessed on October 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Patrick Küng's cruciate ligament is also gone. blick.ch, February 28, 2012, accessed on October 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Küng wins the shortened Lauberhorn downhill run , accessed on January 18, 2014, blick.ch
  5. ↑ Alpine skiing in general. Accessed June 6, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  6. ↑ Benjamin Steffen: The world champion explains forfait. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 8, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2016 .
  7. ↑ World champion Patrick Küng resigns. In: skiweltcup.tv. TV-Sport Deutschland & Skiweltcup.TV, January 23, 2019, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Küng, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1984