Petr Záhrobský

Petr Záhrobský
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	November 30, 1980
place of birth	Jilemnice
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Krkonoš
status	active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut October 29, 2000  Overall World Cup 118th ( 2009/10 )  Downhill World Cup 48th (2009/10)  Super G World Cup 50th ( 2008/09 )
last change: March 24, 2011

Petr Záhrobský (born November 30, 1980 in Jilemnice ) is a Czech ski racer . Like his sister Šárka Strachová, he is trained by his father.

biography

Záhrobský first took part in FIS races in December 1995. In his almost 500 races in this category he has celebrated 20 victories so far. He contested the first race in the European Cup in February 2000. Mostly placed in the midfield, the Czech only reached his first podium in February 2008. In the 2008/09 season he won all five Super-Gs (the first at the same time as Florian Scheiber ) and thus clearly won the discipline ranking . In the 2009/10 season he won only one Super-G, but again achieved first place in the Super-G classification with another three top 5 placements. In the 2010/11 season , the downhill was his stronger discipline. He won the last downhill in Formigal and was second in the discipline classification.

In the Ski World Cup , Záhrobský drove his first race in October 2000, but only achieved World Cup points eight years later in the Super-G of Val Gardena on December 19, 2008 as 30th for the first time. During the next twelve months he was able to finish under the fastest 30 four times, with 21st place in the downhill from Val Gardena on December 19, 2009, his best World Cup result so far. At the same time, this 21st place was also his last win in the World Cup so far.

Záhrobský took part in the Olympic Games three times ( 2002 in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver ). The best result here was a 24th place in the Super-G in Salt Lake City. He achieved similar results in his six world championships ( St. Anton 2001 , St. Moritz 2003 , Bormio 2005 , Åre 2007 , Val-d'Isère 2009 and Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 ). Here his best result is the 21st place in the combination of St. Moritz.

successes

Olympic games

• Salt Lake City 2002 : 24th Super-G, 31st giant slalom
• Turin 2006 : 32nd Super-G, 34th Downhill
• Vancouver 2010 : 34th Super-G, 36th Downhill

World championships

• St. Moritz 2003 : 21st combination, 31st giant slalom, 33rd Super-G
• Bormio 2005 : 31st giant slalom, 35th Super-G
• Åre 2007 : 26th super combined, 32nd giant slalom, 37th downhill
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 24th downhill, 27th Super-G

Junior World Championships

• Megève 1998 : 34th slalom, 43rd giant slalom
• Pra Loup 1999 : 38th giant slalom, 44th Super-G

World cup

• 5 placements among the best 30

European Cup

• Season 2008/09 : 3rd overall ranking, 1st Super-G
• Season 2009/10 : 1st Super-G
• 2010/11 season : 2nd downhill classification

• 11 podium places, including 7 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
December 4, 2008	Reiteralm	Austria	Super G *
January 30, 2009	Les Orres	France	Super G
February 13, 2009	Sarntal / Reinswald	Italy	Super G
February 26, 2009	Tarvisio	Italy	Super G
March 12, 2009	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	Super G
November 10, 2009	Reiteralm	Austria	Super G
March 18, 2011	Formigal	Spain	Departure

* at the same time as Florian Scheiber

More Achievements

• Seven times Czech champion :
  • 4 × giant slalom (2002, 2005, 2007 and 2009)
  • 3 × Super-G (2003, 2006 and 2011)
• Victory in the Super-G at the Universiade 2007
• 20 victories in FIS races (10 × Super-G, 8 × giant slalom, 2 × slalom)

Web links

Commons : Petr Záhrobský  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Petr Záhrobský in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Petr Záhrobský in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Petr Záhrobský in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )