Siegfried Voglreiter
Siegfried Voglreiter 
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| birthday | 22nd December 1969 (age 50) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Piesendorf , Austria | ||||||||
| size | 180 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||||
| society | USC Piesendorf | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1999 | ||||||||
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Siegfried Voglreiter (born December 22, 1969 in Piesendorf ) is a former Austrian ski racer who specialized in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom . He won a European Cup race and came on the podium once in the World Cup . In 1994 Voglreiter became Austrian slalom champion and at the 1997 World Ski Championships he finished fifth in slalom.
biography
Voglreiter started skiing at the age of three and drove his first races at the age of six. After success in the school and junior sector, he was accepted into the junior team of the Austrian Ski Association at the end of the 1980s . In 1991 he finished third at the Austrian Slalom Championships and was promoted to the European Cup team in autumn of the same year . He celebrated his first and only European Cup victory in 1992 in the Kranjska Gora slalom . At the end of the 1991/92 season he finished fourth in the slalom ranking and in Dienten he was Austrian runner-up in slalom.
Voglreiter won his first points in the World Cup on March 22, 1992 with 18th place in the Breckenridge slalom . In the 1992/93 season his best result by far was the sixth place in the slalom of Val-d'Isère . Also in the 1993/94 season his best result was a sixth place, this time in the Kitzbühel slalom . Another five times he was among the top 20. In the same winter he was Austrian champion in slalom and runner-up in giant slalom. In the next World Cup season , Voglreiter did not achieve a top result, his best result was 16th in the Furano slalom . At the beginning of the 1995/96 season he finished seventh in the slalom of Vail , but due to an injury he could not come close to this result for the rest of the winter.
The 1996/97 season was Voglreiter's most successful. For the first time he achieved top positions in several races of the season. On December 17, 1996 he was fourth in the slalom of Madonna di Campiglio and five days later sixth in the giant slalom of Alta Badia . On January 5th, 1997 he achieved his best World Cup result: in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, he finished second behind the superior Swiss Michael von Grünigen . The next day he came fifth in the slalom. After these achievements, Voglreiter was able to take part in a major event for the first time. At the World Championships in Sestriere , he finished fifth in slalom as the best Austrian, but in the giant slalom he was eliminated in the first round. At the end of winter he came tenth in the Giant Slalom World Cup and 15th in the slalom ranking.
The 1997/98 season began Voglreiter with a fourth place in the parallel race in Tignes . With another three top ten results, he also joined the team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . There he suffered a herniated disc and had to end the season early. In the next winter Voglreiter had to struggle with many failures and only came in once in the top ten. In April 1999 he announced his resignation.
After his career, Voglreiter worked for the Upper Austrian company Fischer Sports in ski development and later took over the racing management for alpine skiing in this company.
successes
World championships
- Sestriere 1997 : 5th slalom
World cup
- 1996/97 season : 10th giant slalom ranking
- One podium, a further eleven placements among the top ten
European Cup
- 1991/92 season : 4th slalom ranking
- 1992/93 season : 9th overall ranking, 9th slalom ranking
- One victory (Slalom in Kranjska Gora 1992) and another two podium places
Austrian championships
- Austrian champion in slalom 1994
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 470
Web links
- Siegfried Voglreiter in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Siegfried Voglreiter in the database of Ski-DB (English)
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| SURNAME | Voglreiter, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd December 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piesendorf |