Toni Giger

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Toni Giger in March 2008

Anton "Toni" Giger (born March 15, 1963 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian alpine ski trainer . From 1999 to 2010 he was racing director of the men's team in the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) and has been head of the department for development, research and innovation at the ÖSV since 2010.

Giger studied physical education and mathematics at the University of Salzburg , where he graduated in 1991 with a thesis. As a student he was an active skier and athlete himself . Giger began his coaching activity in the ÖSV in 1989 as a fitness trainer for the European Cup downhill team under the then men's racing director Hans Pum . Previously, he was a test manager in the areas of skis, shoes and clothing. In 1992 he became the group coach of the European Cup men. In 1995 Giger was coach of World Cup Group III and from 1996 coach of the newly created World Cup Group Giant Slalom / Super-G for men. He was instrumental in the great successes of Austrian ski racers around the turn of the millennium.

In 1999, Giger succeeded Werner Margreiter as men's racing director. During his time as head coach, the alpine ski men won the overall world cup six times and one discipline world cup 26 times. In addition, there are nine gold medals at the world championships from 2001 to 2009 and two gold medals each at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 and 2006 , making Giger the most successful alpine head coach of the ÖSV. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , however, Austria's ski men went without a medal for the first time in history.

Giger's coaching ended after the 2009/10 season. On March 22, 2010, Mathias Berthold , who had previously been the head coach of the German ski women, was introduced as the new men's racing director by ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel and Alpine Director Hans Pum.

The Swiss ski association Swiss Ski wanted to sign Giger as the alpine men's head coach, but in January 2011 the Austrian decided against moving to Switzerland.

In June 2010 Giger was presented as head of the newly created department for development, research and innovation in the ÖSV.

In this role, Giger created the Ski Austria Technology competence center, which in 2016 employed a total of 74 people. Under the direction of Toni Giger, the competence center develops technical innovations for the athletes in dozens of parallel projects. In response to Hans Grugger's fall on the Kitzbühler Streif , in which the racer suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, improvements in helmet safety were tackled and a thirty percent better cushioning was researched, which the FIS has declared to be a new safety standard has been. Other projects promoted by Toni Giger deal with safer tilt poles for the alpine disciplines as well as new jumping boots for the ski jumping competitions. Over several years of development work, a linear tribometer was created under Giger's direction, which measures the frictional resistance in different snow conditions.

ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel described Toni Giger's work with the competence center as a competitive advantage for the ÖSV athletes.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics , Giger caused a scandal in the men's ski jumping competition on the normal hill when, contrary to the regulations, he stayed near the start bar and photographed jumpers. Giger justified the action, referred to in several media as espionage, with the fact that he only took pictures of two jumpers as a private person, but was not the only one and he also did not hinder anyone.

According to Austrian head coach Alexander Pointner  , Giger was inadvertently in the zone and Swiss head coach Martin Künzle said he didn't think Giger could gain an advantage from this.

At the end of April 2019, it was announced that Giger will become sports director . He becomes the successor of the resigned Hans Pum .

The eight-time overall World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher emphasized the importance of the competence center for his success and described Toni Giger as a companion from the very beginning.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alumni Club Universität Salzburg ( Memento from August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), www.uni-salzburg.at, accessed on February 16, 2014
  2. ^ Anton Giger: On the conception and implementation of consumer ski tests . Thesis. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1991, OBV .
  3. ↑ Leicht athletik 10/82 - October 30, 1982 www.intersport.at, accessed on February 16, 2014
  4. ↑ easy athletics 4/5/79 of May 21, 1979
  5. ↑ Mathias Berthold is the new boss ( memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) www.oesv.at, March 22, 2010, accessed on February 16, 2014
  6. ↑ Remon Geisser: Toni Giger cancels Swiss Ski | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 7, 2011, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 21, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Restructuring presented in the ÖSV ( memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) www.oesv.at, June 25, 2010, accessed on February 16, 2014
  8. ^ Ski Austria Technology. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  9. ^ Ski Austria Technologies. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: "The ÖSV is the most modern sports association in the world" . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on May 21, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Toni Giger spy affair sport.oe24.at, February 14, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2014
  12. ↑ LAOLA1.at - Morgenstern there is no stunk. Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ LAOLA1.at - ÖSV invests "Batzen" money for the "best in the world". Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ LAOLA1.at - Big personnel changes at the ÖSV. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Interview broadcast on Servus TV on January 30th, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Giger, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian alpine ski trainer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria