Tobias Hellman

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Tobias Hellman Alpine skiing
Full name Olof Christian Tobias Hellman
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 16th January 1973
place of birth Lidingö
size 182 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , super-G ,
downhill , combination
society Are SLK
status resigned
End of career 2001
Medal table
Junior World Championship 3 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Maribor 1992 Super G
gold Maribor 1992 slalom
gold Maribor 1992 combination
silver Maribor 1992 Giant slalom
bronze Maribor 1992 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 87th ( 1992/93 )
 Super G World Cup 30. (1992/93)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 50th ( 1993/94 )
 

Olof Christian Tobias Hellman (born January 16, 1973 in Lidingö ) is a former Swedish ski racer . He started in the World Cup until 1997 , took part in the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 World Championships , was three-time junior world champion and four-time Swedish champion .

Career

Hellman was the outstanding athlete at the 1992 Junior World Championship in Maribor, Slovenia . He achieved podium positions in all five disciplines, won three gold medals in slalom, super-G and combined, a silver medal in giant slalom and a bronze medal in downhill. In December of the same year he won his first points in the World Cup with 22nd place in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère . On March 7, 1993, Hellman achieved the best World Cup result of his career with ninth place in the Aspen Super-G . Two weeks later he finished 19th in the Kvitfjell Super-G , but after that he was not among the fastest 20 in any other World Cup races until his last World Cup starts in January 1997.

Hellman represented his country as one of 84 athletes at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway . In both giant slalom and slalom he was eliminated in the first round, in Super-G he finished 19th and in the combination he was 13th. His second and last major event was the 1996 World Cup in the Spanish Sierra Nevada . He finished 31st in the Super-G and 37th in the downhill, but retired in slalom and combined. At national level, Hellman won four Swedish championship titles from 1993 to 2001 , two in downhill and two in combination.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • A top 10 placement and another placement in the top 20

Junior World Championships

  • Zinal 1990 : 11th slalom, 20th downhill, 24th Super-G
  • Geilo 1991 : 6th giant slalom, 7th combination, 14th slalom, 27th descent
  • Maribor 1992 : 1st combination, 1st slalom, 1st Super-G, 2nd giant slalom, 3rd descent

Swedish championships

  • Hellman is a four-time Swedish champion :
    • 2 × downhill (1996 and 2001)
    • 2 × combination (1993 and 1997)

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