Roland Assinger

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Roland Assinger Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 9th May 1973 (age 47)
place of birth Hermagor , Austria
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society SC Hermagor
status resigned
End of career 2003
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 15, 1995
 Overall World Cup 44th ( 1995/96 )
 Downhill World Cup 14th (1995/96)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 0
 

Roland Assinger (born May 9, 1973 in Hermagor , Carinthia ) is a former Austrian ski racer and today's trainer . As an active racer, he specialized in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines and achieved a podium and several top 10 results in the World Cup . His older brother Armin Assinger was also a ski racer.

Career

Assinger was accepted into the national team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) in 1994 . In the European Cup he achieved second place in the downhill from Saalbach-Hinterglemm in the 1994/95 season . With two more top 10 results, he achieved second place in the downhill classification with one point ahead of his compatriot Rainer Salzgeber and the Russian Andrej Filischkin . At the end of winter he had his first appearance in the World Cup on the downhill from Bormio . He finished this race in 21st place.

In the first World Cup descent of the 1995/96 season , Assinger was already sixth in Vail . A week later (December 9, 1995) he reached second place in the two-pass sprint downhill run from Val-d'Isère, just four hundredths of a second behind the winner, Luc Alphand . However, he was unable to repeat these achievements in the rest of the season or in his further career, they remained his best World Cup results. In the downhill runs from Bormio and Kvitfjell he was twice tenth this winter and thus in the Downhill World Cup fourteenth, in all other World Cup races of the season he was not in the top 30. In the European Cup this winter he only contested two Super-Gs, the he finished in fifth and sixth positions respectively. In the 1996/97 season , Assinger achieved constant performance, but remained without a top result. In ten of the eleven World Cup runs, he finished in the points, seven of them among the fastest 20. His best result was 13th place in the first descent from Val Gardena . In the European Cup at the beginning of February, he achieved two victories in both downhill runs from La Thuile .

At the beginning of the 1997/98 World Cup season , Assinger again achieved four top 10 placings in a row: He was fifth and seventh in the two downhill runs from Beaver Creek and eighth in both downhill runs from Bormio. On January 23, 1998, however, he suffered a serious shoulder injury in a fall on the Streif , which is why he had to end the season early. After he had not been at the World Championships in the last two years, this injury now prevented a possible participation in the Olympic Games in Nagano. In the next winter Assinger had to start again in the European Cup. He achieved the best results of the season in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee with second place in the Super-G and sixth in the downhill. In January and March 1999 he again took part in three World Cup runs, but did not get past 21st place. Therefore, in the winter of 1999/2000, he had to try to get a permanent place in the World Cup via the European Cup. In the European Cup he showed constant performance, came on the podium twice and a further seven times in the top ten. In the overall ranking he reached eighth place, seventh in the Super-G and fifth in the downhill. However, he missed the desired place in the World Cup. In his four World Cup runs this winter, he achieved two good placements, eighth in Kitzbühel and twelfth in Val Gardena.

Also in the 2000/01 season Assinger achieved good performances in the European Cup. He finished second in the runs from St. Moritz and Sestriere and third in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. With fourth place in the downhill classification, however, he again just missed a World Cup fixed starting position. In his only World Cup appearance in the 2000/01 season in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he only came in 33rd place. After the winter, he lost his place in the ÖSV squad and he had to continue training at his own expense. In August 2001, however, he tore a cruciate ligament during downhill training in Zermatt (meniscus and capsule were also damaged - at first the end of his career seemed to have occurred ), which is why he was unable to compete in any races for almost the entire next winter. In the 2002/03 season, Assinger returned to the European Cup, where he still achieved some good results, including second and fourth place in the Laax downhill runs . In the downhill classification he came in fifth overall. But that was not enough for a return to the World Cup, because only the first three will get a fixed starting place for the next season. After the winter of 2002/03, Assinger ended his active career.

From 2005 to 2006 Assinger, who completed his training as a state-certified alpine ski trainer, was Senegal's national trainer . In this role he looked after Leyti Seck , who lives in Austria , whose father comes from Senegal and who first took part in a world championship in 2003. From 2008 Assinger was the coach and fitness coach of the European Cup men in the Austrian Ski Association, from 2012 European head coach and from 2013 world cup trainer of the ÖSV women. In April 2014 Assinger was promoted to women's group trainer of the “World Cup Speed ​​I” training group and thus de facto to speed head coach of the Austrian women's world cup team. He held this post until May 15, 2020.

successes

World cup

  • One podium and another eight top 10 placements

European Cup

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Assinger - Sturz ended career" in "Kleine Zeitung" (Carinthia edition) of September 8, 2001, page 73
  2. ^ ÖSV - Austrian Ski Association. In: oesv.at. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ ÖSV does not extend Assinger contract. In: salzburg24.at. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Assinger, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermagor-Pressegger See , Austria