Patrick Thaler

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Patrick Thaler Alpine skiing
Patrick Thaler, Schladming 2009
Patrick Thaler in January 2009
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 23rd March 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Bolzano , Italy
size 177 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society CS Carabinieri
status resigned
End of career 23rd January 2018
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Schladming 1997 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 8, 1997
 Overall World Cup 21. ( 2013/14 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 42nd ( 1997/98 )
 Slalom World Cup 4. (2013/14)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 0 3
 

Patrick Thaler (born March 23, 1978 in Bolzano ) is a former Italian ski racer and three-time Olympian (2006, 2010, 2014). The special discipline of the South Tyrolean was the slalom , at the beginning of his career he also competed in the giant slalom .

Career

Thaler skied for the first time at the age of two and became Italian champion in his age group as a child. He was accepted into the South Tyrolean national team in 1993 and joined the C-team of the Italian Winter Sports Association two years later . In 1997 he was called up to the Italian senior team.

After his first successes in FIS races , Patrick Thaler started in the European Cup for the first time in January 1997 . He celebrated his first victories in 2003 and won the slalom classification in the 2003/04 season . Thaler took part in the Junior World Championships in 1996 , 1997 and 1998 and in 1997 won the silver medal in the giant slalom. In the slalom races he was eliminated every time. On March 8, 1997, Thaler competed in the World Cup for the first time. He won his first points on January 6, 1998 in the giant slalom in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , where he finished 23rd. Initially, Thaler competed almost exclusively in giant slalom in the World Cup, and since the 2002/2003 season almost exclusively in slalom. In both disciplines, he was initially only rarely able to qualify for the second round. This changed from the 2004/05 season : after he had driven his last World Cup giant slalom in January 2005, he achieved a place among the fastest ten for the first time on February 27, 2005 with eighth place in the slalom of Kranjska Gora .

2006 Winter Olympics

After further top 10 results in the World Cup, Thaler took part in the 2006 Olympic Games in slalom, but was eliminated in the first round. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre he was also unsuccessful, and here, too, he could not finish the first slalom run. On January 25, 2009, Thaler achieved his first podium in the World Cup when he finished third in the slalom in Kitzbühel behind the two French riders Julien Lizeroux and Jean-Baptiste Grange . Three weeks later, he was the only one of the four Italians who did not fail to finish seventh at the 2009 World Cup in Val-d'Isère .

From the beginning of 2010, Thaler was unable to match the results of the last few years. In addition to a failure at the 2010 Winter Olympics , he was less and less able to qualify for a second round in the World Cup. In the 2010/2011 World Cup season, he only managed to qualify for the second run once, which is why he was unable to qualify for the 2011 World Cup within the Italian team. After two rather unsuccessful years, Thaler has been among the world's best again since the beginning of the 2011/2012 season . In the first three World Cup slaloms of the winter, he was always among the fastest seven. Four more times he was among the fastest 15, with which he achieved his best result so far in the Slalom World Cup as 16th.

The World Cup season 2012/13 started Thaler with a fifth place in slalom in Levi - his best World Cup result since January 2009. On 15 December 2013, the program was achieved with 3rd place in Val d'Isere, the second podium result of his career. Another third place was added on January 24, 2014 in Kitzbühel.

2014 Winter Olympics

At the Olympic Games in 2014 he was eliminated in the first slalom run. In winter 2014/15 was a fifth place his best result, as in the following season 2015/16 . After a sixth place was his best result in the 2016/17 season , he lost the connection to the top of the world in the following winter, as he was eliminated in seven of eight races in the first round or did not qualify for the second round.

He contested his last World Cup race in Schladming on January 23, 2018, and on the same day the 39-year-old declared his active career over.

Private

Patrick Thaler has been married since 2011 and has three children with his wife Evi.

successes

World championships

World cup

  • 28 placements among the top ten, including 3 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points
1997/98 103. 20th 42. 20th - -
1999/00 117. 13 44. 13 - -
2003/04 105. 24 - - 46. 24
2004/05 58. 104 - - 19th 104
2005/06 57. 125 - - 19th 125
2006/07 101. 36 - - 38. 36
2007/08 57. 141 - - 20th 141
2008/09 51. 160 - - 18th 160
2009/10 96. 41 - - 34. 41
2010/11 132. 15th - - 49. 15th
2011/12 51. 192 - - 16. 192
2012/13 46. 160 - - 17th 160
2013/14 21st 351 - - 4th 351
2014/15 56. 130 - - 18th 130
2015/16 42. 240 - - 10. 240
2016/17 64. 111 - - 22nd 111
2017/18 141. 10 - - 49. 10

European Cup

  • 2003/04 season : 1st slalom ranking
  • 9 podium places, including 6 wins:
date place country discipline
January 24, 2003 Courchevel France slalom
March 15, 2003 Piancavallo Italy slalom
December 2, 2003 Are Sweden slalom
December 20, 2003 Donnersbachwald Austria slalom
December 18, 2010 Madonna di Campiglio Italy slalom
December 14, 2011 Obereggen Italy slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A slalom veteran ends his career today. Kleine Zeitung , January 23, 2018, accessed on January 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Patrick Thaler is the father of twins. skionline.ch, July 10, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Thaler, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano , Italy