Stephan Maurer

This article is about the snowboarder Stephan Maurer. For other people see Stefan Maurer .

Stephan Maurer
nation	Switzerland
birthday	August 13, 1985
Career
society	Davos
National squad	since 2001
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
National medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Swiss championships gold 2007 Zermatt Big Air
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup December 1, 2002  Overall World Cup 61st ( 2007/08 )  Halfpipe World Cup 44th ( 2002/03 )  Big Air World Cup 09th ( 2007/08 )
TTR World Snowboard Tour
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  TTR 2 1 1

Stephan Maurer (born August 13, 1985 ) is a Swiss snowboarder .

Career

Maurer made his international debut on February 8, 2002 in the European Snowboard Cup . In Bischofswiesen he reached 16th place in the halfpipe. On December 1, 2002, after a good European Cup start in Laax, he made his debut in the Snowboard World Cup . He won his first World Cup points with rank 16. After winning the FIS race in his home town of Davos three weeks later and also being successful in St. Moritz in January , he started at the 2003 Junior Snowboarding World Championship in Prato Nevoso . There he reached seventh place in the halfpipe. At the end of the season in Arosa he achieved his best ever World Cup result with tenth place. In the overall halfpipe ranking he reached 44th place, which was the best result of his career.

In February 2004 he started after a weak start in the 2003/04 season at the Junior World Championships in Oberwiesenthal and at Klínovec , but could not repeat his performances from the previous year and only ended up in the rear. At the 2004 Swiss Championships in Zermatt at the end of the season , Maurer narrowly missed the medal ranks in the halfpipe behind Sergio Berger , Gian Simmen and Rolf Feldmann as fourth. In the 2004/05 season , apart from the opening competition in Saas-Fee, he only competed in Big Air competitions. Up until March, he achieved the points in every World Cup and was always in the top twenty without exception. At the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2005 in Zermatt, however, Maurer surprisingly landed far behind in the big air, but was able to place fifth in the halfpipe.

From September 2005 to January 2006, Maurer could not place himself among the best in the world. Often times he missed the points with a placement outside the top 30. On December 28, 2005, Maurer started for the first time as part of the TTR World Snowboard Tour and was 36th in the slopestyle competition as part of the O'Neill SB-Jam .

On January 28, 2006, he also achieved a good placement in the World Cup for the first time at Big Air in Winterberg , where he reached sixth place. He repeated this placement a few days later in Milan .

On September 22, 2006 he reached seventh place in Big Air at Freestyle.ch . At the Snowboard World Championship 2007 in Arosa , Maurer reached tenth place in Big Air. In April 2007 he also won his first and only Swiss championship in Zermatt. In September 2007 he was able to clearly win Big Air at Freestyle.ch after a strong final in which he showed a particularly demanding trick with a long backflip. Just two and a half weeks later, Maurer showed his qualities again at the Big Air World Cup in Rotterdam and just barely missed the podium as fourth. Maurer was also successful at the Burton Pro Jump Contest as part of the TTR tour and won the Big Air competition by far. In the World Cup he was able to draw attention to himself again in December with a seventh place in Sofia, Bulgaria , before he retired from the World Cup for the rest of the season and concentrated on his starts in the TTR World Snowboard Tour.

At the Crans Montana Champs Open in February 2008, he ended up in third place. After further rather mediocre results, he reached rank 31 in the TTR overall ranking at the end of the season. In October and November 2008 Maurer started his last two World Cup competitions and was able to win World Cup points in Big Air in London and Stockholm . Between the two World Cups he was also able to achieve third place at the Burton STOMP-IT . He finished the 2008/09 TTR season in 20th place overall. Previously, at the 2009 Snowboard World Championships in Gangwon-do Province, he was 16th in Big Air and 31st in the halfpipe.

On October 31, 2009 he was able to achieve his best individual result of the 2009/10 season with second place at the Stompit Again , before he reached fourth place at the X-Games Europe at the end of the season. In the 2010/11 season he competed with the Stomp-It , where he finished fourth, and the Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam 2010, his last two international competitions, before ending his active competitive career and devoting himself entirely to freeriding.

Entrepreneurship

Maurer is the founder of the snowboard brand Clast , which specializes primarily in the field of sports equipment with neck warmers and hats.

He lives in Zizers in the canton of Graubünden.

Web links

• Stephan Maurer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Stephan Maurer at the TTR World Snowboard Tour

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Championships 2004 , FIS, accessed on May 19, 2013
2. ↑ Swiss Championships 2007 , FIS, accessed on May 19, 2013