Simon King

Simon King

Simon König at the World Cup 2011 in St. Gallen
To person
Date of birth	1985
nation	Austria
discipline	Bike ball
To the team
Current team	RC Höchst
function	goalkeeper
Most important successes
World Cup winner 2005 Austrian champion 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015
Last update: January 17th, 2020

Simon König (* 1985 ) is an Austrian cyclist from RC Höchst .

Career

His career began at RV Lustenau. In 1998 he won the Austrian championship for students together with Claudio Grabher. The next year he switched to the juniors and already finished third in the first year together with Manuel Autengruber. In 2000 he finished second and in the following two years he won the juniors. He then moved to RC Höchst and from then on played with Dietmar Schneider in the first division. In the seven years with Dietmar, he stood on the podium in the Austrian championship every time and won five times. He also won five bronze medals at the World Cup .

He has been playing with Florian Fischer since the 2010 season . Together they won the first Austrian championship and finished second the following year.

From 2005 to 2013 he won the European Cup four times and the overall World Cup once .

successes

• World Championship
  • Bronze medal 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2008 , 2009
• Overall World Cup
  • 1st place 2005
  • 2nd place in 2012 , 2013 , 2016 , 2017
  • 3rd place in 2008 , 2009
• European Cup / European Championship
  • 1st place in 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , 2013
  • 2nd place in 2006 , 2012 , 2017
  • 3rd place 2010 , 2015
• Austrian championship
  • 1st place 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 (a total of 8 times)
  • 2nd place in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • 3rd place 2012, 2014
• Austrian Cup
  • 1st place 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016
  • 2nd place in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
  • 3rd place 2003, 2007

World Cup Statistics

year	partner	1. T.	2. T.	3rd T.	4. T.	Points	Qual	final
2003	Dietmar Schneider	8th	4th		6th	125	9	-
2004	Dietmar Schneider	6th	4th			155	4th	5
2005	Dietmar Schneider	7th				155	4th
2006	Dietmar Schneider					190	1	4th
2007	Dietmar Schneider	5				165	2	7th
2008	Dietmar Schneider					180	1
2009	Dietmar Schneider (a)			4th		170	3
2010	Florian Fischer	4th	5			160	5	8th
2011	Florian Fischer					190	1	6th
2012	Florian Fischer				6th	155	4th
2013	Florian Fischer					180	4th
2014	Florian Fischer					175	2	7th
2015	Florian Fischer				5	175	3	5
2016	Florian Fischer					195	1
2017	Florian Fischer				- (b)	135	2
2018	Florian Fischer (c)				-	140	3	-
Status : October 27, 2018

Participations: 76
gold medals: 21
silver medals: 25
bronze medals: 11

Legend
Year: Calls the year of the World Cup. Partner: Playing partner in this World Cup year. 1st day: (1st tournament, out of 4) the athlete's rank in this tournament. Points: World Cup points that the player had at the end of qualification. Quali: Rank at the end of the qualification. Final: Rank in the final, if this was achieved.

^(a) Finale with Florian Fischer

^(b) There were only five qualifying tournaments in the 2017 World Cup season.

^(c) Ongoing competition.

Web links

• Official club homepage of the RC Höchst