Susanna Kurzthaler

Susanna Kurzthaler
Association	Austria
birthday	May 16, 1995
place of birth	Innsbruck, Austria
Career
society	Nordic Team Absam
Trainer	Florian Steirer
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2013
status	resigned
End of career	September 7, 2016
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 2 × ÖM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2014 Presque Isle Season gold 2016 Cheile Grădiştei singles bronze 2016 Cheile Grădiştei Season  Austrian championships silver 2013 Season silver 2014 Season
World Cup balance
last change: February 17, 2015

Susanna Kurzthaler (born May 16, 1995 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian biathlete .

Susanna Kurzthaler from Mils visits the Stams ski school and starts for Nordic Team Absam , where she is trained by Florian Steirer. She made her international debut at the 2014 Junior Biathlon World Championships in Presque Isle . After good results in individual, sprint and pursuit with ranks 16, 13 and eleven, she won the bronze medal behind France and Russia in the relay race alongside Julia Schwaiger and Simone Kupfner . The 2014 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Tyumen followed . Kurzthaler finished 25th in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit in the juniors' races. For the season she was appointed to the side of Simone Kupfner, Fabian Hörl and Lorenz Wäger in Austria's A season, which, however, did not start in the end. She was also used in the junior races of the 2015 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Otepää and was 25th in the individual, ninth in the sprint and 20th in the pursuit. For the relay race she was used for the first time in the Austrian A team.

Kurzthaler competed in her first IBU Cup races in 2014 in Obertilliach . Already in the first outing, she was sixth of an individual and not only reached the points, but also a single-digit placement. It is Kurzthaler's best result so far in the racing series. At the 2015 European Championships, she contested her first race at an international championship with Susanne Hoffmann , Christina Rieder and Fabienne Hartweger in the relay race and finished 13th.

Kurzthaler won nationally at the Austrian championships in 2013 and 2014 with Lisa Hauser and Simone Kupfner and with Magdalena Fankhauser and Simone Kupfner as representatives of Tyrol, the runner-up in the relay races.

Kurzthaler ended her career as reigning junior world champion on September 7, 2016. As reasons, she gave, among other things, the closure of her training base in Seefeld and the lack of support from the ÖSV. In addition, she was not included in the operational customs control and without financial security, neither the move to Hochfilzen nor the stay in competitive sport would have been possible.

Web links

• Susanna Kurzthaler in the IBU database (English)
• "I was very relieved that I could get my best possible performance."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Resignation at the age of 21: Structure ended Kurzthaler's career on tt.com - Tiroler Tageszeitung, accessed on November 23, 2016