Thomas Stangassinger

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Thomas Stangassinger Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 15th September 1965 (age 54)
place of birth Hallein , Austria
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
combination
society SC Hallein
status resigned
End of career 2000
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Lillehammer 1994 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Saalbach 1991 slalom
bronze Morioka 1993 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 10
 Overall World Cup 9. ( 1996/97 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 29th ( 1989/90 )
 Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1998/99 )
 Combination World Cup 12. ( 1984/85 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 10 15th 11
 combination 0 1 0
 

Thomas Stangassinger (born September 15, 1965 in Hallein ) is a former Austrian ski racer . In the 1990s he was one of the world's best slalom skiers , won ten slalom races in the Ski World Cup , made it onto the podium 37 times and won the Slalom World Cup in 1999. In 1994 he became Olympic champion in slalom, at world championships he won a silver and a bronze medal.

biography

Stangassinger has been a member of the Austrian Ski Association since 1981 and took part in the Junior World Championships in 1982 and 1983. In Sestriere 1983 he reached fourth place in the slalom. In the same year he became Austrian junior champion in giant slalom. In the European Cup he finished third in the overall standings and second in the slalom classification with a win and three more podium places in the 1983/84 season .

Stangassinger scored his first points in the World Cup on December 16, 1984 with fifth place in the slalom of the 3-tre races in Madonna di Campiglio , and the day after he came second in the combination. At the 1985 World Championships in Bormio , he started in the combination, but failed in the second slalom run. In December 1985 he made it onto the podium again in the Kranjska Gora slalom , but after that did not make it into the top ten for the entire winter. He remained without top positions in the next season and so the Salzburg native was absent from the 1987 World Cup in Switzerland. After a second place in the slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim , Stangassinger was again at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 and took 13th place in the combination, he could not finish the slalom. From the 1988/89 season, Stangassinger only started in the technical disciplines and no longer contested any combinations. In the World Cup, his best placings in the winter of 1988/89 were two sixth places in the slaloms of St. Anton and Furano , and at the 1989 World Championships he finished ninth in slalom.

On December 3, 1989, Stangassinger celebrated his first World Cup victory in the slalom of Mont Sainte-Anne , but did not make it onto the podium a second time during the rest of the season. From the 1990/91 season on, Stangassinger no longer drove a giant slalom and now concentrated entirely on the slalom. In the World Cup he reached two podium places this winter. At the season highlight, the 1991 World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , he was only beaten by Marc Girardelli and won the silver medal. The following winter he fell back a little, a sixth place in Sestriere was his best result of the season, and at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he came only ninth. In the 1992/93 season Stangassinger was able to improve again, he was on the podium three times and celebrated his second World Cup victory on January 24th in Veysonnaz . In the Slalom World Cup he was among the top three for the first time. At the 1993 World Championships in Morioka-Shizukuishi , Japan , he won precious metal for the second time and won the bronze medal behind the Norwegian Aamodt and Girardelli, who started for Luxembourg.

In the 1993/94 season Stangassinger won in Park City and Kitzbühel and came second twice, behind Alberto Tomba . With that he reached the second place in the Slalom World Cup, also behind Tomba. The then 28-year-old celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway . With an outstanding best time in the first round, he relegated Tomba to second place and became Olympic champion in slalom. He then received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and was voted Sportsman of the Year by Austrian sports journalists . A shoulder injury suffered in the summer affected the Salzburg man for the entire 1994/95 season and so it was only at the end of the season in Bormio that he made it onto the podium for the only time this winter. Also in the next season he was only once in the top three. Due to illness, he could not start at the 1996 World Cup .

Stangassinger was able to improve significantly again in the 1996/97 season . He drove a total of eight times on the podium and won the Shigakogen slalom . This made him second in the Slalom World Cup behind compatriot Thomas Sykora . At the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere , however, he lagged behind his World Cup results and only came in sixth. In the 1997/98 season Stangassinger won the slaloms in Park City, Veysonnaz and Kitzbühel and came on the podium twice more. In the Slalom World Cup he was beaten again by Thomas Sykora, this time by just under four points. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he came only on the rather disappointing sixth place.

With two victories in Aspen and the Sierra Nevada as well as three second places, Stangassinger also won the Slalom World Cup in the 1998/99 season , after having been second three times so far. At the 1999 World Cup , however, he again failed to win a medal and again took sixth place. The 1999/2000 season was Stangassinger's last. He was in the top three four times and finished fifth in the Slalom World Cup. Stangassinger ended his career in the spring of 2000 after 145 World Cup slaloms, of which he won 10 and finished another 26 in the top three, at the age of 34.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Junior World Championships

World Cup ratings

Thomas Stangassinger won the slalom discipline once.

season total Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1984/85 36. 49 49. 3 18th 26th 12. 20th
1985/86 73. 15th - - 32. 15th - -
1986/87 52. 18th - - 18th 18th - -
1987/88 33. 42 - - 11. 42 - -
1988/89 39. 32 37. 1 13. 31 - -
1989/90 23. 65 29 9 11. 56 - -
1990/91 13. 80 - - 5. 80 - -
1991/92 38. 257 - - 10. 257 - -
1992/93 16. 362 - - 3. 362 - -
1993/94 17th 452 - - 2. 452 - -
1994/95 31. 265 - - 11. 265 - -
1995/96 46. 166 - - 12. 166 - -
1996/97 9. 670 - - 2. 670 - -
1997/98 12. 539 - - 2. 517 - -
1998/99 11. 566 - - 1. 566 - -
1999/00 24. 369 - - 5. 369 - -

World Cup victories

Stangassinger achieved a total of 37 podium places, including 10 wins:

date place country discipline
3rd December 1989 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada slalom
January 24, 1993 Veysonnaz Switzerland slalom
November 28, 1993 Park City United States slalom
January 16, 1994 Kitzbühel Austria slalom
March 9, 1997 Shigakogen Japan slalom
November 22, 1997 Park City United States slalom
January 18, 1998 Veysonnaz Switzerland slalom
January 25, 1998 Kitzbühel Austria slalom
November 28, 1998 Aspen United States slalom
March 13, 1999 Sierra Nevada Spain slalom

There are also 15 second and 11 third places in slaloms and a second place in a combination.

European Cup

  • 1983/84 season : 3rd overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking
  • Five wins, another five podiums

Austrian championships

Awards

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Stangassinger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallein , Austria