Peter Hochschorner
Peter Hochschorner (born September 7, 1979 in Bratislava ) is a former Slovak canoeist. He and his twin brother Pavol won three gold medals and one bronze medal in canoe slalom at the Olympic Games in a two-man canoe . There were also six world championship titles, including one in the team competition, and eleven European championship titles, including five in the team competition.
Career
Pavol and Peter Hochschorner come from a canoeist family, both parents were active in canoe slalom, the sister was a flat water canoeist. They were trained by their father Peter Hochschorner Sr. at ŠKP Bratislava .
In 1998 the two Hochschorners became European champions in the two-man Canadians and runner-up European champions in the two-man Canadians team classification. The following year the two became vice world champions with the team. The Hochschorners experienced the first high point of their career at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, when they became Olympic champions with a lead of six seconds after they had already defended their European title before the games. In 2002 they exceeded their 1998 result and became European champions in both the individual and team rankings. At the World Championships in France they became world champions for the first time. After bronze at the 2003 World Championships, the Hochschorners were able to repeat their Olympic victory in Athens in 2004 , with almost four seconds ahead of the Germans Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze , the victory was only slightly closer than four years earlier. In the following years the two won international medals with the climax of the world championship title in Brazil in 2007. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Hochschorners won their third gold medal in a row with a margin of just over two seconds. Nobody except Pavol and Peter Hochschorner achieved three successive Olympic victories in canoe slalom.
From 2009 to 2011 the Hochschorners won the Canoe Slalom World Championships three times. Their winning streak at each season highlight, which has been going on since 2007, ended at the 2012 Olympic Games in London when they won the bronze medal behind two British boats. In the years that followed, they continued to win medals in the team competition together with Ladislav and Peter Škantár as well as Tomáš Kučera and Jan Batik . This team also won bronze in 2017 when the men's two-man Canoe was on the program for the last time at world championships.
In 2010 the Hochschorners were awarded the Ľudovít-Štúr-Order . In 2009 and 2011 you were voted Sportsman of the Year in Slovakia . They have been members of the International Whitewater Hall of Fame since 2009.
Peter Hochschorner has a degree in training and sports science from the Comenius University in Bratislava . He runs a car repair workshop in Bratislava.
Medals
- 1998: Gold European Championships
- 1998: Silver European Championships team classification
- 1999 : Silver World Championships team ranking
- 2000: Gold European Championships
- 2000: Silver European Championships team ranking
- 2000 : Gold Summer Olympics
- 2002: Gold European Championships
- 2002: Gold European Championships team competition
- 2002 : Gold World Championships
- 2003 : Bronze World Championships
- 2004 : Gold Summer Olympics
- 2005: Gold European Championships team competition
- 2006: Silver European Championships
- 2006 : Bronze World Championships
- 2006: Bronze World Championships team ranking
- 2007: Bronze European Championships
- 2007 : Gold World Championships
- 2007: Bronze World Championships team ranking
- 2008: Gold European Championships
- 2008: Bronze European Championships team classification
- 2008 : Gold Summer Olympic Games
- 2009: Gold European Championships
- 2009 : Gold World Championships
- 2009: Gold World Championships team competition
- 2010 : Gold World Championships
- 2011: Gold European Championships
- 2011: Silver European Championships team classification
- 2011 : Gold World Championships
- 2011: Silver World Championships team ranking
- 2012: Silver European Championships
- 2012 : Bronze Summer Olympics
- 2013 : Silver World Championships team ranking
- 2014: Gold European Championships team competition
- 2014 : Silver World Championships team ranking
- 2015: Gold European Championships team competition
- 2016: Gold European Championships team competition
- 2017 : Bronze World Championships team ranking
Web links
- Peter Hochschorner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait at canoeicf.com
- Portrait in Whitewater Hall of Fame (English)
Footnotes
- ^ Entry in the Whitewater Hall of Fame
- ↑ Portrait at canoeicf.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hochschorner, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak canoeist, Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th September 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratislava |