Rainer Salzgeber
Rainer Salzgeber 
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| birthday | 26th April 1967 (age 53) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Schruns , Austria | |||||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg | |||||||||||||||
| job | Racing director | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Giant slalom , Super-G | |||||||||||||||
| society | WSV Tschagguns | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2002 | |||||||||||||||
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Rainer Salzgeber (born April 26, 1967 in Schruns , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian ski racer and member of the WSV Tschagguns . He celebrated his greatest success with the silver medal in giant slalom at the 1993 World Championships in Morioka . He also achieved six podium places in world cup races and was three times Austrian national champion . His specialty disciplines were giant slalom and super-G .
Career
Salzgeber celebrated his first big success at the Junior World Championships 1985 in Jasná with the gold medals in slalom and in combination . The following year he won the European Cup discipline in the Super-G.
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , he finished 15th in the Super-G and seventh in the giant slalom. The following year he celebrated his greatest success. On February 10, 1993, he surprisingly won the silver medal in giant slalom at the World Championships in Morioka .
Shortly thereafter, on February 27, 1993, he was seriously injured on the descent in Whistler Mountain ( torn anterior and posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, as well as torn collateral ligament and meniscus ), but made a successful comeback in the coming season . Salzgeber achieved his first podium in the World Cup , third in the giant slalom in Crans-Montana . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he narrowly missed a medal in the giant slalom and finished fifth. At the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere , he finished ninth in giant slalom and 16th in Super-G in 1999 in Vail .
In the World Cup he reached second place in the giant slalom in Vail in 1997 and in the Super-G in Schladming in 1999. In addition, with his fifth place on December 21, 1998, he was involved in the nine-time victory of the ÖSV team in the Super-G at Patscherkofel in Innsbruck .
Since retiring from active ski racing in the 2001/02 season, he has been working for the ski company Head , from January 2002 to May 2005 as a junior coordinator and since May 2005 as racing director.
Salzgeber has been married to his long-term partner, the former Austrian ski racer Anita Wachter (* 1967), since 2017 and they have two daughters. His daughter Amanda Salzgeber (* 2002) won the combined slalom for Austria at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games .
successes
Olympic games
- Albertville 1992 : 7th giant slalom, 15th Super-G
- Lillehammer 1994 : 5th giant slalom
World championships
- Morioka 1993 : 2nd giant slalom
- Sestriere 1997 : 9th giant slalom
- Vail 1999 : 16th Super-G
Junior World Championships
- Sugarloaf 1984 : 4th giant slalom
- Jasná 1985 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 5th giant slalom, 16th descent
World cup
- 14 placements among the top five, including 6 podium places
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | combination | |||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1989/90 | 51. | 22nd | - | - | - | - | 13. | 22nd | - | - |
| 1990/91 | 31. | 42 | - | - | 13. | 12 | 11. | 30th | - | - |
| 1991/92 | 24. | 336 | 61. | 5 | 16. | 115 | 17th | 117 | 7th | 99 |
| 1992/93 | 48. | 176 | - | - | 39. | 29 | 17th | 65 | 7th | 82 |
| 1993/94 | 44. | 179 | - | - | 37. | 10 | 14th | 169 | - | - |
| 1994/95 | 36. | 208 | - | - | 48. | 5 | 11. | 203 | - | - |
| 1995/96 | 54. | 128 | 42. | 27 | 61. | 1 | 20th | 100 | - | - |
| 1996/97 | 37. | 271 | - | - | - | - | 6th | 271 | - | - |
| 1997/98 | 32. | 298 | - | - | 20th | 69 | 8th. | 229 | - | - |
| 1998/99 | 25th | 288 | - | - | 6th | 212 | 22nd | 76 | - | - |
| 1999/00 | 41. | 191 | - | - | 21st | 75 | 19th | 116 | - | - |
| 2000/01 | 70. | 68 | - | - | - | - | 27. | 68 | - | - |
| 2001/02 | 122. | 15th | - | - | - | - | 44. | 15th | - | - |
European Cup
- 1985/86 season : 1st Super-G ranking, 3rd giant slalom ranking
- 1986/87 season : 2nd overall ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking
- 1994/95 season : 3rd downhill classification
- 1996/97 season : 2nd Super-G classification
- 2000/01 season : 5th giant slalom ranking
Austrian championships
Rainer Salzgeber was three times Austrian champion :
Web links
- Rainer Salzgeber in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Rainer Salzgeber in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Rainer Salzgeber in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Rainer Salzgeber (23 August 2012)
- ↑ Wachter and Salzgeber got married (August 15, 2017)
- ↑ Gold for Anita Watcher's daughter. In: The press. January 11, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Salzgeber, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schruns |