Thomas Prugger

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Thomas Prugger Snowboard
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday October 23, 1971
place of birth San Candido
size 186 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , parallel slalom
society Snowboard Club Brunico
National squad since 1994
status resigned
End of career 2000
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 1998 Nagano Giant slalom
FIS Snowboard world championships
gold 1997 San Candido Giant slalom
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 24, 1994
 Overall World Cup 11. (1997/98)
 Parallel World Cup 11. (1994/95)
 Snowboard cross world cup 26. (1997/98)
 GS World Cup 08. (1996/97, 1997/98)
 SL World Cup 12. (1997/98, 1998/99)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Otherwise. Racing disciplines 0 1 3
 

Thomas Prugger (born October 23, 1971 in Innichen , South Tyrol ) is a former Italian snowboarder .

Prugger began snowboarding in 1985 and made his debut in the Snowboard World Cup on November 24, 1994 . In Zell am See , he immediately achieved seventh place and first World Cup points in the parallel slalom. On January 14, 1995 he reached the podium in a World Cup race for the first time in Les Deux Alpes with third place in the parallel slalom. In the parallel World Cup ranking he finished 11th at the end of the 1994/95 season. He finished 41st in the slalom class and 42nd in the giant slalom class. At the 1996 World Snowboard Championships in Lienz , Prugger was eighth in both the giant slalom and the parallel slalom. For the 1996/97 season he also started in snowboard cross but was initially only able to occupy rear positions. At the snowboard world championship in 1997 in his home town of Innichen he was world champion in giant slalom. In slalom he reached sixth place and in parallel slalom 29th place. After the world championship, Prugger was regularly among the top ten in the giant slalom in the World Cup. At the end of the season he finished eighth in the overall giant slalom ranking. For the 1997/98 season , Prugger also made it into the World Cup points for the first time in snowboard cross. He also scored regularly in the other disciplines, so that in the end he finished 11th in the overall World Cup ranking. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he won silver in the parallel giant slalom. After the games he was rarely able to build on earlier successes. At the Snowboard World Championship in Berchtesgaden in 1999 , he was disqualified in the giant slalom. In the parallel slalom he reached 16th place and in the parallel giant slalom 29th place. After another rather mediocre season, Prugger ended his active snowboarding career in 2000.

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