Stefan Gimpl

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Stefan Gimpl Snowboard
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday October 31, 1979
place of birth Leogang ,  AustriaAustriaAustria 
size 164 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
discipline Big Air
society SC Leogang
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Snowboard world championships
bronze 2009 Gangwon Big Air
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup October 9, 2005
 World Cup victories 9
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 2007/08 , 2009/10 )
 Big Air World Cup 1. ( 2005/06 , 2007/08 ,
2008/09 , 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Big Air 9 6th 2
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 TTR debut 2002
 Overall rating 20th (2005/06)
 

Stefan Gimpl (* 31 October 1979 in Leogang , Salzburg ) is an Austrian Freestyle - snowboarders .

Career

Stefan Gimpl at a World Cup in Seoul (2009)

At the age of twelve, Stefan Gimpl stood on a snowboard for the first time and built his first ski jumps behind his parents' house. He started his career in 1996 and has since taken part in international competitions as a professional driver. He is the only driver to date to have won the Air & Style Contest three times in a row (1999, 2000 and 2001). He also won the Soul City Contest in 1999 and 2000 and the freestyle.ch in 2002 . He completed his first FIS World Cup at the beginning of the 2005/06 season in Rotterdam , which he finished in second place in Big Air . His first World Cup victory followed in Big Air in Klagenfurt . At the World Cup in Milan he finished second and won the Big Air World Cup. He also achieved 16th place in the overall World Cup. In March 2006 he was second in the Slopestyle at the Wangl Tangl in Mayrhofen . In the following season he came in the top ten four times in the World Cup, including third place in the Big Air in Turin and finished fourth in the Big Air World Cup at the end of the season. At the 2007/08 Snowboard World Championships in Arosa , he took 18th place in Big Air. After finishing second in Big Air in Rotterdam at the beginning of the 2007/08 season, he won three World Cups and took third place once. At the end of the season he reached fifth place in the overall World Cup and won the Big Air World Cup. At the beginning of the following season he won freestyle.ch in Zurich . In the further course of the season he took second place twice in the World Cup and won two victories in Stoneham and Moscow . At the season highlight of the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Gangwon , he won the bronze medal in Big Air. He finished the season in sixth place in the overall World Cup and, as in the previous year, in first place in the Big Air World Cup. In his last active season 2009/10 he won three World Cups and finished second once. At the end of the season he came fifth in the overall World Cup and won the Big Air World Cup for the third time in a row.

successes

ISF World Cup

  • 4 wins (Soul City Vienna 1999, and Air & Style, 1999, 2000, 2001)

FIS World Cup

  • 9 World Cup victories in Big Air
No. date place
1. January 7, 2006 AustriaAustria Klagenfurt
2. December 22, 2007 BulgariaBulgaria Sofia
3. January 5, 2008 AustriaAustria Graz
4th February 9, 2008 RussiaRussia Moscow
5. February 21, 2008 CanadaCanada Stoneham
6th March 7, 2009 RussiaRussia Moscow
7th October 31, 2009 United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
8th. November 7, 2009 SpainSpain Barcelona
9. November 21, 2009 SwedenSweden Stockholm

More Achievements

  • 2nd place in the Halfpipe Junior World Championships (1996)
  • 2nd place at Toyota Big Air in Sapporo (1999/2000/2002)
  • 3rd place at Toyota Big Air in Sapporo (2001/2003)
  • 1st place at the Air & Style Contest 1999 in Innsbruck
  • 1st place at the Soul City Contest (1999/2000)
  • 1st place at the Air & Style Contest 2000 and 2001 in Seefeld in Tyrol
  • 2nd place at the Soul City Contest (2002)
  • 2nd place at the Kaunertal Opening (2002)
  • 2nd place at the Soul City Contest in Vienna (2003)
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in Rotterdam (2005)
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in Milan (2006)
  • 2nd place in slopestyle at the Wangl Tangl in Mayrhofen (2006)
  • 1st place in the Big Air World Cup 2005/06
  • 3rd place at the Big Air World Cup in Turin (2007)
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in Rotterdam (2007)
  • 3rd place at the Big Air World Cup in Chiesa in Valmalenco (2008)
  • 1st place in the Big Air World Cup 2007/08
  • 1st place at freestyle.ch in Zurich (2008)
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in London (2008)
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in Grenoble (2008)
  • 3rd place in Big Air at the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Gangwon
  • 1st place in the Big Air World Cup 2008/09
  • 2nd place at the Big Air World Cup in Seoul (2009)
  • 1st place in the Big Air World Cup 2009/10

FIS World Cup overall placements

season total Big Air
Points space Points space
2005/06 3100 16. 3100 1.
2006/07 1740 30th 1740 4th
2007/08 4640 5. 4640 1.
2008/09 4100 6th 4100 1.
2009/10 4300 5. 4300 1.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gimpl, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian snowboarder
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Leogang , Austria