Renate Götschl

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Renate Götschl Alpine skiing
Renate Götschl at the Austrian championships in March 2008
Renate Götschl in March 2008
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 6th August 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Judenburg , Austria
size 165 cm
Weight 65 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom ,
combination
society SC Weißkirchen
status resigned
End of career August 19, 2009
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 4 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Salt Lake City 2002 Departure
silver Salt Lake City 2002 combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Sestriere 1997 combination
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Departure
silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Super G
silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 combination
silver St. Anton 2001 Departure
silver Santa Caterina 2005 team
bronze Santa Caterina 2005 Departure
gold Are 2007 team
bronze Are 2007 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Monte Campione 1993 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 17, 1993
 Individual world cup victories 46
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1999/00 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. ( 1996/97 , 1998/99 ,
2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2006/07 )
 Super G World Cup 1. (1999/00, 2003/04 ,
2006/07)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 10. (1999/00)
 Slalom World Cup 14. (1999/00)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1999/00, 2001/02 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 24 21st 14th
 Super G 17th 15th 9
 Giant slalom 0 1 3
 slalom 1 0 0
 combination 4th 0 1
 

Renate Götschl (born August 6, 1975 in Judenburg , Styria ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She became world champion three times , won the overall world cup once and a discipline world cup ten times. With 46 World Cup victories in four different disciplines, she is the fifth most successful female athlete in the history of the World Cup . Especially in her domain, the speed disciplines downhill and super-G , Götschl set further World Cup records, which were later surpassed by Lindsey Vonn .

biography

Beginnings and first successes

Götschl learned to ski at the age of three and soon won her first children's race. She attended the ski trading school in Schladming and in 1990 became Austrian school champion in slalom, super-G and combined. In 1991 she was accepted into the junior squad of the ÖSV , a year later she was promoted to the B-squad.

The young Styrian celebrated her first major successes in the 1992/93 season. She won the European Cup slalom in St. Sebastian , was junior vice world champion in slalom and three times Austrian youth champion. The most impressive proof of her great talent, however, she provided in her second World Cup race . After she had not yet qualified for the second run in her first race, the slalom of Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 17, 1993, the then 17-year-old was able to take part in her second race, the slalom in Hafjell, Norway on March 14 the high starting number 42 sensationally won with more than six tenths of a lead over the Swede Kristina Andersson . In the next winter Götschl confirmed this result when she won the combination of St. Anton in December 1993 with second place in the downhill and fourth in the slalom . At her first major event, the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer , she had no success, however, at her only start in the downhill she fell out after a fall.

In the 1994/95 season Götschl had to struggle with many failures, but celebrated her third World Cup victory in the Super-G in Flachau on January 10 and became Austrian champion in the Super-G in March. The next winter did not go optimally, again she had to cope with many failures, achieved several podium places, but no victory. At the 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she narrowly missed the bronze medal in the combination, in the downhill she was eighth.

Rise to the speed queen

In the 1996/97 season Götschl achieved constant performance in the speed disciplines and celebrated her first victory in this discipline in the downhill from Vail on December 7th. At the World Championships in Sestriere she first took sixth place in the Super-G and eighth place in the downhill, in the final combination the 21-year-old then won the gold medal ahead of the two Germans Katja Seizinger and Hilde Gerg . At the World Cup final in Vail, she secured second place, the first time she won the small crystal ball in the Downhill World Cup. After these achievements, Götschl was voted Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 1997.

Also in the 1997/98 season she achieved consistently good performances and celebrated another victory in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee on January 18th. With a total of six podium places, she finished second in the final standings in downhill and super-G. At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , she fell short of her expectations with fifth place in the Super-G and a failure in the downhill as well as in the combination. In March 1998 she was Austrian downhill champion.

In the 1998/99 season , with her two downhill victories in Lake Louise at the end of November, she laid the foundation for winning the Downhill World Cup again, two more victories followed towards the end of the season in Åre and St. Moritz . The high point of the season was the world championship in Vail / Beaver Creek for Götschl and the entire Austrian skiing nation . In the Super-G, she was only just beaten by her teammate Alexandra Meissnitzer , but with second place ahead of Michaela Dorfmeister she played a key role in the Austrian triple success involved. In the combination she came in second behind the Swede Pernilla Wiberg . In the downhill she finally won the world title and led an Austrian four-fold victory in front of Michaela Dorfmeister, Stefanie Schuster in 3rd place and Alexandra Meissnitzer in 4th place. She was announced by the stadium announcer as a speed queen because of her dominance in training and competitions , a title that the media picked up and which she retained from then on. In the overall World Cup, she came third with a total of five wins.

Overall World Cup victory and further successes

The 1999/2000 season was Götschl's most successful. With six wins (3 × Super-G, 2 × Downhill, 1 × Combination), two second and three third places, she won the large crystal ball for the overall World Cup victory for the first and only time and also for the first time the small ball in the super G-rating. In the end she was only five points short of the German Regina Häusl in the descent . What was striking was her consistency in the technical disciplines, in which, in contrast to earlier years, she dropped out less often and consistently placed in the top ten.

In the 2000/01 season she won a total of three races and came on the podium ten more times. With this she achieved second place in the overall World Cup as well as in the Downhill and Super-G rankings. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton , she was eliminated in the Super-G after the best intermediate time and she was also unlucky in the combination. After finishing second in the combined descent, she was already in the lead after the first slalom run, but was canceled in the second run. In the downhill she did not succeed in defending her title, she had to admit defeat to her teammate Michaela Dorfmeister by 14 hundredths, but with second place in front of Selina Heregger she was involved in an Austrian triple victory, just like two years earlier. In the giant slalom she was also eliminated after a good first run.

In the 2001/02 season she came back to second place in the overall World Cup with four wins, but fell back in the discipline ratings to fourth place in the Super-G and fifth place in the downhill. At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , she won the silver medal in combination behind the Croatian Janica Kostelić and bronze in the downhill. In the Super-G, however, she only came eighth. Shortly thereafter, her career suffered a serious setback. In the first World Cup race after the Olympic Games, she fell on the downhill from Lenzerheide on March 2nd and sustained serious injuries in her left knee.

Successful comeback

After a long hospital stay and subsequent rehabilitation, she returned to the World Cup in early December 2002. Already in her second race, the descent from Lake Louise on December 7th, she reached the podium again and in mid-January she was back on top with her double success in the Super-G and in the descent from Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 2003 World Cup , however, she did not get any top results, in the downhill she came in fifth, in the Super-G only eighth. In the Discipline World Cup, the Styrian achieved second place in the Super-G and in the downhill after her serious injury, where she was only under four points inferior to Michaela Dorfmeister.

The 2003/04 season was again extremely successful. With three victories each in Downhill and Super-G, she won both disciplines, in the overall World Cup only the Swede Anja Pärson achieved more points. She also achieved her best placement in this discipline with second place in the giant slalom in Lienz . The 2004/05 season was similarly successful . With two victories each in Downhill and Super-G, she won the small crystal ball in the Downhill World Cup for the fourth time, finished second in the Super-G classification and third place in the overall World Cup. She celebrated three of her four victories of the season within a few days in one place: Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 2005 World Championships in Bormio , she only managed 23rd place in the Super-G, in the combination she was out, but then won the bronze medal in the downhill and the silver medal with the team in the new team competition . In 2005 she was voted Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for the second time.

In the 2005/06 season Götschl found her form only slowly. It wasn't until January that she achieved her first podium finish on the downhill from St. Moritz, and a week later she celebrated her only win of the season in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo. This was Götschl's ninth triumph on the Tofana , no other alpine ski racer had celebrated more World Cup victories in one place at that time. Renate Götschl carried the Austrian flag at the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . In the competitions she only missed the bronze medal in the downhill by seven hundredths, in the Super-G she only came in on the disappointing 26th place. After the Games, she ended the season prematurely to undergo an operation. She suffered the ligament injury in her knee in the last World Cup race before the Olympic Games.

In the 2006/07 season Götschl was able to improve significantly again and celebrated more season successes than ever before with a total of eight victories (4 × Super-G and 4 × Downhill). This enabled her to win the Downhill and Super G World Cups early on. On January 28, 2007 she reached her 100th podium in the World Cup with second place in the Super-G in San Sicario . At the 2007 World Cup in Åre , Sweden , she won the bronze medal in the Super-G, but she only finished the downhill in the less than eighth place. On the last day of the World Cup, she won the team competition with the team. In the overall World Cup, she only reached fourth place despite her eight wins and another five podium places. After she competed in her last World Cup slalom two years ago, she took part in giant slalom races for the last time this season and now started exclusively in the fast disciplines.

Declining services

In the summer of 2007 Götschl had to undergo an operation because of a knee injury that she had already suffered during the previous winter, which meant that she was clearly behind in training for the next season. For the first time in twelve years she could not win a race in the 2007/08 season . Nevertheless, she came in second with two second places in the Downhill World Cup behind the clearly superior American Lindsey Vonn and in fourth place in the Super-G with three third places.

The 2008/09 season was extremely disappointing. In the first two months she was only able to finish in the top ten once, even at the World Championship in Val-d'Isère she only came in 24th in the downhill, in the Super-G she was out. It was not until the World Cup final in Åre that she achieved her only podium finish with third place in the downhill.

resignation

Götschl with the special award of the Sportsman of the Year 2009 election

On August 19, 2009 Renate Götschl announced her retirement as a ski racer due to her pregnancy and the associated private reorientation. In November she was honored with a special prize at the award ceremony for the Austrian Sportsman of the Year .

Private

In March 2010 Götschl gave birth to a daughter, a second followed in July 2011. The father of the two, ORF employee Hannes Kargl, married Götschl on August 4, 2017 in Spielberg .

Records

Renate Götschl set several records in her career, all of which were later surpassed by Lindsey Vonn :

  • The victory in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 20, 2007 was her tenth triumph on the Tofana . No alpine racer had won at a World Cup venue more often before. In second place was the Swede Ingemar Stenmark , who had eight wins in Madonna di Campiglio . At the beginning of December 2011, this record was broken by Lindsey Vonn when she won three races in Lake Louise on three consecutive days and thus achieved eleven victories at a World Cup location (over the years there have been even more, at the end of her career Vonn is 18 Victories in Lake Louise). Vonn won 12 races in Cortina and has two more victories there than Götschl.
  • 17 World Cup victories in Super-G (surpassed by Vonns 18th victory on March 3, 2012) and 41 podium places in this discipline (surpassed by Vonns's 42nd podium on February 7, 2016, with 3rd place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ).
  • 198 top 10 placements in World Cup races, surpassed by Vonn on January 21, 2017 with victory in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Renate Götschl has won the overall World Cup once (2000), plus ten victories in disciplines (five downhill runs, three super-Gs and two combinations).

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1992/93 57. 100 - - - - - - 18th 100 - -
1993/94 15th 378 18th 106 46. 15th 28. 59 24. 98 3. 100
1994/95 14th 509 10. 236 4th 245 - - 31. 28 - -
1995/96 10. 594 7th 308 5. 267 51. 6th 47. 13 - -
1996/97 8th. 647 1. 483 12. 146 39. 18th - - - -
1997/98 7th 787 2. 392 2. 305 - - - - 14th 36
1998/99 3. 1035 1. 610 5. 308 28. 47 37. 25th 9. 45
1999/00 1. 1631 2. 524 1. 554 10. 266 14th 187 1. 100
2000/01 2. 1189 2. 455 2. 466 14th 136 24. 72 3. 60
2001/02 2. 931 5. 408 4th 210 36. 37 25th 76 1. 200
2002/03 7th 830 2. 368 2. 458 51. 4th - - - -
2003/04 2. 1344 1. 680 1. 467 13. 190 47. 7th - -
2004/05 3. 1164 1. 567 2. 416 16. 145 - - 7th 36
2005/06 19th 448 3. 315 19th 113 38. 20th - - - -
2006/07 4th 1300 1. 705 1. 540 26th 55 - - - -
2007/08 9. 731 2. 448 4th 283 - - - - - -
2008/09 23. 316 9. 180 13. 136 - - - - - -

World Cup victories

Overall: 46 World Cup victories (24 downhill runs, 17 Super-G, 1 slalom, 4 combinations). In addition, 37 times second and 27 times third.

Departure

date place country
December 7, 1996 Vail United States
January 18, 1998 Altenmarkt Austria
November 27, 1998 Lake Louise Canada
November 28, 1998 Lake Louise Canada
February 27, 1999 Are Sweden
March 5, 1999 St. Moritz Switzerland
February 19, 2000 Are Sweden
February 25, 2000 innsbruck Austria
December 17, 2000 St. Moritz Switzerland
January 13, 2001 House in the Ennstal Austria
January 26, 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
February 2, 2002 Are Sweden
January 18, 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
March 12, 2003 Hafjell Norway
December 20, 2003 St. Moritz Switzerland
January 10, 2004 Veysonnaz Switzerland
March 10, 2004 Sestriere Italy
January 15, 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
March 10, 2005 Lenzerheide Switzerland
January 28, 2006 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 13, 2007 Altenmarkt Austria
January 20, 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 27, 2007 San Sicario Italy
March 14, 2007 Lenzerheide Switzerland

slalom

date place country
March 14, 1993    Hafjell    Norway   

Super G

date place country
January 10, 1995 Flachau Austria
January 22, 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 16, 2000 Altenmarkt Austria
February 27, 2000 innsbruck Austria
March 16, 2000 Bormio Italy
December 2, 2000 Lake Louise Canada
January 17, 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
February 28, 2003 innsbruck Austria
December 7, 2003 Lake Louise Canada
January 16, 2004 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
February 21, 2004 Are Sweden
January 12, 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
January 14, 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
December 3, 2006 Lake Louise Canada
December 16, 2006 Reiteralm Austria
January 26, 2007 San Sicario Italy
March 4, 2007 Tarvisio Italy

combination

date place country
December 19, 1993 St. Anton Austria
February 12, 2000 Santa Catarina Italy
January 13, 2002 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria
February 3, 2002 Are Sweden

European Cup

  • 1992/93 season : 7th overall ranking, 10th slalom ranking
  • 1 victory (slalom in St. Sebastian 1993), 1 × second, 1 × third

Junior World Championships

Austrian championships

  • Two-time Austrian Champion (Super-G 1995 , Downhill 1998 )
  • Three times Austrian youth champion (slalom, giant slalom and Super-G 1993)

Awards

Biographies

Web links

Commons : Renate Götschl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Speed ​​Queen" stops , sport.orf.at, August 19, 2009
  2. ↑ Renate Götschl had a daughter. steiermark.orf.at, March 8, 2010
  3. ↑ Girls again for "Speed ​​Queen" Götschl. steiermark.orf.at, July 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Ex-ski racer Renate Götschl got married
  5. ^ Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Races. ski-db.com, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  6. ↑ «It's crazy - I get goose bumps»; Kärntner Tageszeitung from November 4, 2000, pages 50 and 51
personal data
SURNAME Götschl, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Judenburg , Styria, Austria