Philipp Bonadimann

Philipp Bonadimann
Philipp Bonadimann 2009
nation	Austria
birthday	24th July 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Feldkirch
size	183 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	ENJO Vorarlberg / SK- Kehlegg wheelchair club
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
Winter Paralympics 0 × 1 × 2 × Alpine World Ski Championships, monoski 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Winter Paralympics silver Sochi 2014 slalom bronze Vancouver 2010 slalom bronze Vancouver 2010 Super combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 2008  Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 1. (2011)  Slalom World Cup 1st (2011, 2012), 2nd (2013), 3rd (2010)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 4th 4th 2

Philipp Bonadimann (born July 24, 1980 in Feldkirch , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian disabled skier . In alpine skiing for wheelchair users ( monoskibob ) he won two bronze medals and one silver medal at the Paralympic Games , he is a two-time world champion and overall world cup winner .

Accident and professional career

Philipp Bonadimann 2009

Philipp Bonadimann was injured when he was 17 when he fell on a small motorcycle. A fracture of the 11th and 12th thoracic vertebrae was diagnosed and resulted in paraplegia . In a wheelchair, he continued his training at the Federal Trade Academy and Federal Trade School in Bregenz . After graduating from high school, he completed a course in corporate project and process management at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences . Since 2007 he has been working as a group leader at the dispensing office for medical aids and medical aids at the Vorarlberg regional health insurance fund . Even in disabled sports, in the course of increasing professionalism, most of the top athletes devote themselves exclusively to training and preparation for competitions - Philipp Bonadimann was one of the few world-class disabled athletes who work full-time alongside competitive sports.

Career

Philipp Bonadimann joined the Vorarlberg wheelchair club in 2003. From 2005 he competed in the European Cup, the European Cup record includes 20 medals:

• 7 individual victories
• 9 second ranks
• 4 third ranks
• once overall winner of the European Cup
• Overall European Cup discipline victories in slalom and the super combination.

The World Cup debut took place in 2008. In 2011 and 2012 he won the Slalom World Cup, and in 2011 he won the overall World Cup. He achieved his greatest successes at the Paralympics 2010 with two bronze medals and at the 2013 World Cup in La Molina with two golds and one bronze medal. He also won 15 national championship titles as well as three national silver and two bronze medals.

Handbike, USA and Australia crossing

The handbike team at the finish of the Race Across America 2006 in Atlantic City

In 2006, a six-person handbike team from the Vorarlberg wheelchair club with Thomas Bechter, Philipp Bonadimann, Jürgen Egle, Hubert Kilga, Klaus Salzmann, Wolfgang Wimmer and Bernd Piendl (substitute) took part in the Race Across America . Two teams drove around the clock. Each team consisted of three athletes, a following car that was permanently behind the athlete, and a mobile home with a trailer as a base station. While there was always only one athlete on the track, the other two regenerated in the mobile home. The athletes changed after an hour's drive. The six-person wheelchair team conquered the route with 4,912 kilometers and 33,440 meters of altitude in 10 days 0 hours and 12 minutes.

In 2010 a team from the Vorarlberg wheelchair club with Thomas Bechter, Philipp Bonadimann, Jürgen Egle and Wolfgang Wimmer crossed Australia on the route from Perth to Sydney . The race distance of 4,032 kilometers and 13,072 meters in altitude was covered in 6 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. This record was documented in the 2012 Guinness Book of Records .

Today he works as a trainer and supervises e.g. B. the monoski bob rider Heike Eder .

Honors

• five times Vorarlberg athlete of the year (category disabled sports), 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Golden Sports Decoration of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg
• Large gold medal of the ÖSV
• Gold Medal of Honor of the Vorarlberg Ski Association
• Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Feldkircher, Klaus (ed.): Undiscovered heroes. Out of the norm. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2011, ISBN 978-3-99018-091-4 .
• Wheelchair Club Vorarlberg (Ed.): Race across America: the power of friendship. Hecht Verlag, Hard 2006, ISBN 978-3-85298-140-6 .
• Vorarlberg wheelchair club (ed.): Race across australia. Illustrated book of a world record. Hecht Verlag, Hard 2011, ISBN 978-3-85298-177-2 .
• Guinness World Records 2012. Mohn Media, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-80829-8 .
• Feldkircher, Klaus (Hrsg.): Paralympic fire in the snow: The way of the Austria Ski Team; Eleven portraits. Tyrolia Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7022-3318-1 .

Web links

Commons : Philipp Bonadimann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Event website "race across america"
• Event website "race across australia"
• Profile on the website of the Austria Ski Team Disabled Sports
• Homepage of the Vorarlberg wheelchair club