Roland Leitinger

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Roland Leitinger Alpine skiing
Roland Leitinger, alpine skier
Roland Leitinger in March 2008
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 13th May 1991 (age 29)
place of birth St. Johann in Tirol , Austria
size 177 cm
Career
discipline Alpine skiing
short carving
firngliding
society SC St. Martin near Lofer
status active
Medal table
Alpine World Ski Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Shortcarving EM 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver St. Moritz 2017 Giant slalom
European Short Carving ChampionshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold Steinach 2007 versatility
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 6, 2011
 Overall World Cup 39th ( 2019/20 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 17. (2019/20)
 Parallel world cup 5th (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Parallel races 0 0 1
last change: March 14, 2020

Roland Leitinger (born May 13, 1991 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is an Austrian ski racer who is mainly active in giant slalom . He has been a member of the Austrian Ski Association since 2010 . His greatest success was winning the giant slalom silver medal at the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships . In addition to alpine skiing, he was active for a long time as a short carver and snow skier .

biography

Private

Leitinger skied for the first time as a two-year-old on the valley meadow in his home town of Sankt Martin bei Lofer in Salzburg's Saalach Valley , and he contested his first race when he was three. As a six year old he came to the ski club in his hometown. After primary school in St. Martin and secondary school in Zell am See , he attended the ski trade school in Schladming from 2005 . His father Willi Leitinger is the managing director of Bergbahnen Lofer.

youth

After reaching the age limit, he took part in FIS races for the first time in the 2006/2007 season. He achieved his first successes at the Austrian Championships in 2008 in Haus im Ennstal , when he took second place in the combined class in the general class and third place in the Super-G in his youth I age group.

In addition to alpine skiing, Leitinger was initially very successful on shorter skis in short carving and firn gliding. In short carving, the then only 15-year-old was not only Austrian champion in 2007, but also European champion in the eventing competition in Steinach am Brenner . After two further Austrian championship titles in the slalom in 2008 and in the eventing competition in 2009, he won all three disciplines (slalom, eventing, combination) at the Austrian short carving championships in 2010. He was also three-time Austrian youth champion in 2009 and 2010. In 2008 he achieved his first major success in firngliding with the state champion title in giant slalom. In 2011 he won all three competitions (slalom, giant slalom and combination) in the general class and in the youth class II at the Austrian championships in Schruns .

First successes

Roland Leitinger in the slalom of the Austrian Alpine Ski Championships 2008

In alpine skiing, the slalom and especially the giant slalom Leitinger became the strongest discipline. After his first victory in an FIS race, Leitinger, who had previously been a member of the Salzburg national team for several years, was accepted into the B-team of the Austrian Ski Association in 2010 . In addition to the FIS races, he has since competed in the European Cup and achieved three top 10 placements in his first 2010/11 season - all in giant slalom. He was also used at the Junior World Championships 2011 in Crans-Montana , where he was eliminated or disqualified in slalom and Super-G, but reached fourth place in giant slalom. After this performance, Leitinger was allowed to compete in the giant slalom in Hinterstoder for the first time in the World Cup on February 6, 2011 . As 38th of the first round he missed the qualification for the final run of the best 30. Even at his second World Cup start in the winter of 2010/11 in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora he did not qualify for the second round. At national level, he was Austrian youth champion in giant slalom in 2011 and third at the state championships in this discipline.

The 2011/2012 season came to an early end for Leitinger after a fracture of the ankle bone that he suffered in the first European Cup race of the winter in Trysil on December 5th . Leitinger also had to end the following season early due to injury after suffering a cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee while training for the World Cup giant slalom in Alta Badia .

In the 2013/14 season Roland was able to fight back after the injuries and started the World Cup opener in Sölden , where he was eliminated, for the third time in the World Cup. In the following 2014/15 season he competed in Sölden for the fourth time and again failed to make it into the second round as 33rd. On November 21, 2014 Leitinger reached the European Cup podium for the first time with third place in the giant slalom in Levi . In his sixth appearance in the World Cup, he won World Cup points for the first time in Åre with 21st place in the giant slalom. On January 26, 2015, he made his second European Cup podium at the giant slalom in Lélex , with which he secured victory in the discipline classification.

Establishment among the world's best

While Leitinger has not yet made his breakthrough in slalom and he continues to compete in the European Cup there - the best result so far was a seventh place in Jaun - he managed to establish himself permanently in the Alpine Ski World Cup in his favorite giant slalom discipline . He achieved his best World Cup result so far on October 25, 2015 in the giant slalom in Sölden, where he shared 6th place with Henrik Kristoffersen and Felix Neureuther with the best time in the second round . At the World Cup Giant Slalom in Beaver Creek on December 6, 2015, he reached 10th place (also with the fastest time in the 2nd round). In the rest of the season he was able to score four more times and finished the 2015/16 season in 24th place in the RTL discipline ranking.

While preparing for the 2016/17 season , Leitinger struggled with serious back problems and had to take a two-month break. Until the Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 in St. Moritz , he did not achieve a top ten placement, but he was able to qualify for the World Championships with an 11th place in Val-d'Isère and a 15th place in the giant slalom in Alta Badia . There he had the big surprise and the best result of his career so far at the World Cup giant slalom on February 17, 2017 by winning the silver medal behind his teammate Marcel Hirscher .

On January 11, 2018, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament while training on the Reiteralm and thus missed the rest of the Olympic season. The comeback season 2018/19 was less successful with two 23rd places (Alta Badia and Val d'Isere) in the giant slalom and a 28th place in the parallel RTL in Alta Badia. Nevertheless, he qualified for the Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 in Åre , where he was eliminated in the second round. At the end he won the Italian championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo as well as his first Austrian state championship ex-aquo with Johannes Strolz , both in the giant slalom.

The World Cup season 2019/20 started Leitinger due to poor season 2018/19 again with a start number beyond 30. After he had driven each in the three first giant slalom in the points, he achieved on 23 December 2019 3rd place in the parallel giant slalom from Alta Badia first place on the podium. At RTL am Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden , he managed to jump from 27th to 6th place with the fastest time in the second round, which resulted in his best career result in a special giant slalom. Roland finished the season in 17th place in the RTL discipline ranking and 5th in the parallel ranking.

Successes in alpine skiing

World championships

World cup

  • 6 placements among the top ten, including 1 podium

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom Parallel
space Points space Points space Points
2014/15 134. 10 42. 10 - -
2015/16 69. 116 24. 116 - -
2016/17 63. 116 19th 116 - -
2017/18 91. 45 29 45 - -
2018/19 122. 19th 41. 19th - -
2019/20 39. 176 17th 103 5. 73

European Cup

  • Season 2014/15 : 3rd overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking
  • 5 podium places

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Success in other sports

Short carving

  • European champion in eventing 2007
  • Six times Austrian champion (eventing competition 2007, 2009 and 2010, slalom 2008 and 2010, combination 2010)
  • Six times Austrian youth champion

Firn gliding

  • Four times Austrian national champion (giant slalom 2008 and 2011, slalom 2011, combination 2011)
  • Three times Austrian youth champion

literature

Web links

Commons : Roland Leitinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Cup silver: Leitinger: "Today we can already celebrate a little ." Kleine Zeitung, February 17, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Roland Leitinger: The sensation of the World Ski Championships from Salzburg Salzburger Nachrichten, February 18, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Roland Leitinger won medals at Austrian championships in alpine skiing. ÖSV winner board, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Roland Leitinger won medals at the Austrian Youth Championships in Alpine Skiing. ÖSV winner board, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c Roland Leitinger's victories in short carving. ÖSV winner board, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ a b Roland Leitinger's victories in firn gliding. ÖSV winner board, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  7. ↑ Leitinger unbeatable at Firngleiter-ÖM. ( Memento from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Austrian Ski Association, April 13, 2011, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ Marcel Mathis wins European Cup Giant Slalom in Trysil. skiweltcup.tv, December 5, 2011, accessed on May 7, 2012.
  9. ↑ Manfred Pranger also competes in the European Cup slalom in Obereggen. skiweltcup.tv, December 12, 2011, accessed May 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ Two days, three cruciate ligament tears. laola1.at, December 13, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2012.
  11. ↑ Gold & Silver: Hirscher wins ahead of Leitinger spox.com, February 17, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ End of the season for RTL Vice World Champion Leitinger. ORF , January 11, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Leitinger, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann in Tirol , Austria