Sabine Egger
Sabine Egger 
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 Sabine Egger in December 2002 |
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| birthday | 22nd April 1977 (age 43) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria | ||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||||||
| society | SC Petzen | ||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||
| End of career | April 27, 2005 | ||||||||||
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Sabine Egger (born April 22, 1977 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is a former Austrian ski racer from Globasnitz in Carinthia . She specialized in slalom races and celebrated her greatest success by winning the World Cup discipline in 1998/99 . In addition, she won two World Cup victories and three national championships in slalom.
biography
Sabine Egger was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) in 1993. She came first start in the European Cup in January 1994 at the slalom in Maribor for the first time in the World Cup for use and participated in the same year Junior World Championships in Lake Placid part. In the following season, the then 17-year-old already achieved her first top place in the World Cup. She finished fourth in the slalom in Sestriere on December 18, 1994 (this with start number 49; after finishing 10th in the first run, she drove third-best time in the second run) and barely missed the podium (0.04 seconds). She was injured shortly afterwards and had to take a break for the rest of the season. The 1995/96 World Cup winter was mainly characterized by many failures and so Egger only managed three results, all of them among the best 16. At the 1996 Junior World Championship in Hoch-Ybrig , she won the bronze medal in slalom (March 2nd), after finishing fourth in the giant slalom (February 29th). In addition, she won the Austrian slalom title in 1996 , which she successfully defended the following year and won it for the third time in 1999.
The following season 1996/97 brought the final breakthrough to the top of the world. Egger reached on March 7, 1997 as second in the slalom of Mammoth Mountain, her first podium in the World Cup and finished the season ninth in the discipline classification. The 1997 World Championship in Sestriere ended with a failure in the second slalom run. Thanks to constant results among the top ten, she came eighth in the Slalom World Cup in 1997/98 . In addition to her specialty, she also competed in the giant slalom and achieved her best World Cup placement in this discipline with 13th place in Park City on November 21, 1997 . Due to persistent back problems, she concentrated only on the slalom in the course of her career. At the season highlight, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she was fifth in slalom.
1998/99 was her most successful winter. Egger won her first World Cup race, the slalom in Berchtesgaden on January 8, 1999, with just a hundredth of a second ahead of her teammate Ingrid Salvenmoser . By consistently placing in the top nine in all eight races, she secured the discipline world cup in slalom with only ten points ahead of Pernilla Wiberg . The only downer was her failure in the second round at the 1999 World Cup in Vail . On December 29, 1999, she won her second World Cup race, the slalom in Lienz , although she was only eleventh after the first run. This was followed by two third places and, in the end, sixth place in the discipline ranking .
At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton , she just barely missed a medal as fourth. In the World Cup, however, things did not go according to plan and so Egger was rarely able to place himself in the top ten. One reason for this, in addition to her back problems, was the switch to carving skis. When the ÖSV team was nominated for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games , the then 21-year-old Marlies Schild was given preference over Sabine Egger. On November 23, 2002 Egger reached her last podium in the World Cup at the slalom in Park City. In doing so, she moved up from 15th to third place with the fastest time in the second run. At her last major event, the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , she came ninth. At the end of her career, Egger impressed above all with consistency. In her last three seasons she reached 20 places in the top 20 in 27 slaloms and only failed to cross the finish line three times.
On April 27, 2005, at the age of 28, she announced her retirement from active ski racing. The reason she cited race fatigue after eleven seasons in the Ski World Cup.
successes
Olympic games
- Nagano 1998 : 5th slalom
World championships
- St. Anton 2001 : 4th slalom
- St. Moritz 2003 : 9th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Lake Placid 1994 : 24th Super-G
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 3rd slalom, 4th giant slalom
World Cup ratings
Sabine Egger won the discipline classification in slalom once.
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | |||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1994/95 | 72. | 50 | - | - | 25th | 50 |
| 1995/96 | 70. | 55 | - | - | 32. | 55 |
| 1996/97 | 33. | 234 | - | - | 9. | 234 |
| 1997/98 | 20th | 317 | 35. | 20th | 8th. | 257 |
| 1998/99 | 17th | 425 | - | - | 1. | 425 |
| 1999/00 | 23. | 417 | - | - | 6th | 417 |
| 2000/01 | 57. | 102 | - | - | 20th | 102 |
| 2001/02 | 60. | 111 | - | - | 21st | 111 |
| 2002/03 | 45. | 164 | - | - | 15th | 164 |
| 2003/04 | 37. | 202 | - | - | 12. | 202 |
| 2004/05 | 48. | 137 | - | - | 15th | 137 |
World Cup victories
Egger achieved 8 podium places, including 2 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 8, 1999 | Berchtesgaden | Germany | slalom |
| December 29, 1999 | Lienz | Austria | slalom |
European Cup
- 1995/96 season : 6th slalom ranking
- 1998/99 season : 7th slalom ranking
- 4 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 19, 1999 | Lachtal | Austria | slalom |
Austrian championships
- 3 times Austrian national champion in slalom: 1996 , 1997 , 1999
Awards
- 1999: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
- 1999: Gold medal of honor for sports from the Carinthian State Ski Association
- 1999: Carinthian sportswoman of the year
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 63.
- From Grossglockner to Klammer stitch . 100 years of skiing in Carinthia. Pages 77-79, "Sabine Egger: Sabine, the mother of the slalom company", Carinthia Verlag 2007, publisher. Landesschiverband u.Kleine Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-85378-622-2
Web links
- Sabine Egger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Sabine Egger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Sabine Egger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Sabine Egger with pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lienz - Sabine Egger storms to victory. Skiinfo.de - editorial office, December 29, 1999.
- ↑ ÖSV team without Egger and Schuster. sport.orf.at, February 3, 2002.
- ↑ Slalom: Kostelic wins, Egger on the podium. DiePresse.com, November 23, 2002.
- ↑ Copied people rehearsed uprising - with Egger the emotion ran away. DiePresse.com, November 25, 2002.
- ↑ "I got a little tired of running." Vorarlberg online, April 27, 2005.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Egger, Sabine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt , Carinthia, Austria |