Patrick Staudacher

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Patrick Staudacher Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 29th April 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Sterzing , Italy
size 190 cm
Weight 93 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society CS Carabinieri
status resigned
End of career March 2012
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Are 2007 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 16, 2000
 Overall World Cup 36th ( 2006/07 , 2009/10 )
 Downhill World Cup 20th (2006/07)
 Super G World Cup 10. (2009/10)
 Combination World Cup 17th ( 2005/06 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 0 0 1
 

Patrick Staudacher (born April 29, 1980 in Sterzing , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian ski racer . He celebrated his greatest successes in the super-G and in the downhill as well as in the combination . He was a member of the Italian World Cup team from 2000 and became World Champion in Super-G in 2007 .

biography

Staudacher learned to ski at the age of three and was initially looked after and trained by his father. After several successes in Italian children's races and championships, he was accepted into the South Tyrolean national team. In 1997 he was allowed to take part in a junior world championship for the first time in Schladming, Austria , but did not finish in any of his races. In the same year he was accepted into the Italian C-squad. In February 1998 Staudacher won the Italian junior championship in giant slalom and came second in slalom. Two weeks later he started at the Junior World Championships in France in 1998 , but retired from both of his races there like a year earlier. After a short injury break at the beginning of 1999, he reached the goal for the first time at the Junior World Championships in Pra-Loup in March , the best result was an 18th place in the slalom.

In the 1999/2000 season, Staudacher was promoted to the Italian B squad and now regularly took part in European Cup races. In February he achieved three good results at the Junior World Championships in the Canadian province of Québec : he finished fifth in the Super-G and was sixth in the downhill and slalom. A little later he won his second Italian junior championship, this time in slalom.

From the 2000/01 season Staudacher belonged to the A-team. He drove his first World Cup race on December 16, 2000. In the descent from Val-d'Isère , he finished 42nd place. In March 2001 he became Italian champion in super-G and combined. Staudacher had to wait almost a year until the second World Cup start. On December 7, 2001, he scored his first points with 29th place in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère. In the same month, he also achieved good results in the European Cup: In the downhill from Saalbach-Hinterglemm on December 19, he was among the top ten for the first time, and the following day he even finished second in the second downhill. With two more podium places, he finished fifth in the downhill classification in the 2001/02 European Cup season .

At the beginning of 2002 Staudacher scored points again in two World Cup races and was allowed to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . There he achieved the surprisingly good seventh place in the combination, in the Super-G he finished 18th. In the World Cup, however, he was unable to confirm these performances in the next two seasons. His best result was 20th place in the Super-G at Lake Louise in November 2003. Good results were also the exception in the European Cup, until he again reached three podium places in the 2004/05 season and thus took third place in the Super G final classification. In March 2005 he was Italian Super-G champion for the second time.

From the 2005/06 season onwards, Staudacher concentrated fully on the World Cup and was among the top ten for the first time in the Super G at Beaver Creek on December 1st . In February he took part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in his home country and achieved ninth place in the downhill as the best Italian, and 17th in the Super-G. In the 2006/07 World Cup season , he drove a total of four times in the top ten, best placement was fifth place in the downhill run from Bormio on December 28, 2006. The high point of his career was the 2007 World Cup in Åre , Sweden : the Italian won the gold medal in the Super-G ahead of the Austrian Fritz Strobl and the Swiss Bruno Kernen . It was followed by 18th place in the combination and 32nd place in the downhill.

In the 2007/08 season Staudacher was able to finish in the top ten again three times and achieved his best World Cup result to date with fourth place in the Super-G in Whistler (at the same time as the Canadian Erik Guay ). He had a little less success in the following season , in which he only reached the top 10 once. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, he was unable to repeat his triumph from Åre, in the Super-G he only finished 17th, in the Super Combined 19th. On February 12, 2009 he started again for the first time in almost four years in the European Cup and got his first victory in the downhill from Sarntal / Reinswald .

On December 18, 2009 Staudacher was third in the Super-G in Val Gardena and thus achieved his first and only podium finish in a World Cup race. With a further two top 10 results, he achieved tenth place in the Super G World Cup in the 2009/10 season and thus his best result in a discipline World Cup. In the downhill, his best result of the season was a sixth place in Beaver Creek. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he finished seventh in the Super-G, but only 35th in the downhill. At the end of the season he was Italian champion in Super-G and downhill.

In the 2010/11 season Staudacher fell far behind. He was only among the fastest 25 in two World Cup Super Gs and had no World Cup points at all in the downhill. He was therefore not nominated for the 2011 World Cup by the Italian Association. After the 2011/12 season , in which he started increasingly in the European Cup and only played in five Super-G's in the World Cup, but remained without points, he ended his sports career.

Private

Staudacher's great hobby is music. He learned to play the accordion and has been the bass player for the rock / pop band "Stanton" since 2001 . Patrick Staudacher and his girlfriend have a son.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • Season 2009/10 : 10th Super G World Cup
  • Four placements among the top five, including one podium

European Cup

  • 2001/02 season : 5th downhill classification
  • 2004/05 season : 3rd Super-G classification
  • 2011/12 season : 6th super-G rating
  • A total of ten podium places, including one victory (departure in Sarntal / Reinswald on February 12, 2009)

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • Five-time Italian champion (Super-G 2001, 2005 and 2010; combination 2001; downhill 2010)
  • Two-time Italian junior champion (giant slalom 1998, slalom 2000)
  • 1 victory in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Surprise world champion in Super-G from 2007 ends. Swissinfo , March 22, 2012, accessed on March 22, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Staudacher, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing , South Tyrol , Italy