Ralf Kreuzer
Ralf Kreuzer 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | 5th April 1983 (age 37) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Visperterminen , Switzerland | ||||||||
| size | 190 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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| society | SSC Visperterminen | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | April 2012 | ||||||||
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Ralf Kreuzer (born April 5, 1983 in Visperterminen ) is a former Swiss ski racer . He belonged to the B-team of Swiss-Ski , his strongest disciplines were the downhill , the super-G and the super-combination .
Career
Kreuzer contested his first FIS races in December 1998 . It was not until February 2002 that he was among the top ten for the first time and in December 2003 he won his first FIS race. In the European Cup he contested his first race in January 2002, but only three years later, after almost 20 European Cup races, he took the first points in the downhill from Bad Kleinkirchheim in 24th place. Two weeks later he finished eighth in the downhill from Tarvisio for the first time in the top ten. At the national level, he achieved his first major success in March 2005 when he became Swiss runner-up in the Super-G behind Tobias Grünenfelder . After this season he was promoted to the B-team of the Swiss Ski Association.
On December 29, 2005, Kreuzer was given the opportunity to take part in a World Cup race for the first time . In the downhill from Bormio , however, he only came in 46th place. From January 2006 he was able to place himself in the top ten in the European Cup several times, with his best results being two fourth places in the second Super-G in Châtel and in the downhill from Saalbach-Hinterglemm . In the downhill, super-G and super-combination rankings, he was able to place himself in the top ten of the 2005/06 European Cup season .
In early October 2006, Kreuzer suffered his first serious injury. In a fall during downhill training on the Zermatt glacier, he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee, which is why he was unable to contest any races during the entire 2006/07 season. After the long injury break at the beginning of winter 2007/08, he was initially unable to match the results he had previously achieved, and only in March did he again achieve three top 10 placements in the European Cup in the downhill runs from Bansko and Les Orres .
At the beginning of the 2008-09 season, Kreuzer suffered the second serious injury. In his second World Cup race, the Downhill in Lake Louise on November 29, 2008, he fell and suffered a torn inner ligament and a meniscus injury in his right knee. After an arthroscopy , this season ended very early for him. After the good training performance last autumn, Kreuzer joined the World Cup training group in spring 2009. He won his first points in the World Cup on December 5, 2009 with 25th place in the downhill on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek . He achieved his best World Cup result on December 29, 2009 with 18th place in the downhill from Bormio . On January 28, 2010 he was on the podium for the first time in the European Cup in the downhill from Les Orres. At the end of winter, Kreuzer suffered another serious knee injury. At the Swiss championships, he suffered a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament, the collateral ligament and the meniscus in his right knee. After several months of rehabilitation, he took part in competitions again from December 2010. At the end of the 2010/11 season he reached a podium again in the European Cup downhill from Formigal ; in the World Cup he did not take part in any races that winter.
At the end of August 2011, while driving freely during a training session in Las Leñas , Kreuzer suffered another serious injury in his left knee with tears in the cruciate and inner ligament and damage to the meniscus. After he had to pause the entire 2011/12 season, Kreuzer announced his retirement from ski racing in early April 2012.
successes
World cup
- 1 place in the top 20
European Cup
- Season 2005/06 : 7th super G classification, 8th super combination classification, 9th downhill classification
- Season 2009/10 : 10th downhill classification
- 2010/11 season : 9th downhill classification
- 2 podium places
More Achievements
- Swiss runner-up in Super-G 2005
- 3 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Ralf Kreuzer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Ralf Kreuzer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Third knee injury within four years. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss-Ski, March 22, 2010, accessed on February 2, 2011.
- ↑ Ralf Kreuzer with meniscus damage and inner ligament injury. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss-Ski, September 7, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2011.
- ↑ Ralf Kreuzer with a torn cruciate ligament. ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss-Ski, September 14, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2011.
- ↑ Ralf Kreuzer resigns. skionline.ch, April 2, 2012, accessed on May 1, 2012.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cruiser, Ralf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Visperterminen , Switzerland |