Stefan Kogler (ski racer)

Stefan Kogler
nation	Germany
birthday	2nd July 1981
place of birth	Tegernsee
size	193 cm
Weight	96 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
society	SC Schliersee
Trainer	Hans Daniel Fahrner
status	resigned
End of career	April 2011
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Verbier 2001 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut March 11, 2001  Overall World Cup 101st ( 2008/09 )  Slalom World Cup 40th (2008/09)

Stefan Kogler (born July 2, 1981 in Tegernsee ) is a former German ski racer and today's trainer . The slalom specialist lives in Hausham and started for SC Schliersee . He belonged to the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr , ended his active career in April 2011 and is currently working as a trainer in the German Ski Association DSV.

Career

Kogler was multiple German youth champion. The first victory in an FIS race he succeeded in December 1999. In 2000 and 2001 he took part in two Junior World Championships . His greatest success so far was at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Verbier , when he won the gold medal in slalom. He was then allowed to start in the World Cup for the first time at the season finale in Åre , but was eliminated in the first round.

On February 10, 2002, Kogler won his first points in the European Cup in the Sappada slalom and the next day he finished seventh in the second slalom for the first time among the top ten. After a further seventh place at the end of the season in Le Grand-Bornand , however, he did not achieve any further top 10 results in the next few years. It was not until the winter of 2004/05 that he drove back into the top ten in several European Cup races and also became German slalom champion . From January 2004 Kogler took part increasingly in World Cup slaloms, but initially did not reach the second round in any race. In the European Cup he achieved two second places in the slaloms of Nauders and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the 2007/08 season and achieved third place in the slalom classification with another five top 10 results.

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Kogler won his first and only World Cup points. On November 16, 2008, he finished 16th in the Levi slalom and 18th in the Alta Badia slalom on December 22nd, but after that he made it to the second round like never before in any race. At the 2009 World Cup in Val-d'Isère , he also failed in the first round. In the European Cup he achieved several top 10 results in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons. In March 2010 he became German slalom champion for the second time and he won the bronze medal in slalom at the 2010 Winter Military World Games in Pila .

After no successes in the 2010/11 season , Kogler ended his career in April 2011. He now works as a trainer in the German Ski Association.

Sporting successes

Junior World Championships

• Québec 2000 : 23rd slalom, 50th giant slalom, 57th downhill
• Verbier 2001 : 1st slalom, 36th giant slalom, 39th Super-G

World cup

• 2 placements among the best 20

European Cup

• 2007/08 season : 3rd slalom ranking
• 2 podium places

More Achievements

• German champion in slalom 2005 and 2010
• Bronze in slalom at the 2010 Winter Military World Games
• 24 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Stefan Kogler (ski racer) in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Stefan Kogler (ski racer) in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Profile of Stefan Kogler as a trainer at the German Ski Association
• Stefan Kogler on the SC Schliersee website
• Profile on www.beconsports.com