Viktoria Wolffhardt
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Viktoria Wolffhardt at the Canoe Slalom World Championships 2019 . |
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nation | Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | June 26, 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Tulln on the Danube , Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Sports soldier, student | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boat class | Kayak (K1) and Canadier (C1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | PSK Tulln | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Michael Seibert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: June 3, 2018 |
Viktoria "Viki" Wolffhardt (born June 26, 1994 in Tulln on the Danube ) is an Austrian canoeist . The two-time junior world champion and multiple medalist starts in both a kayak (K1) and a canoe (C1). In 2015 she finished third in the overall canoe slalom World Cup.
Life
Viktoria Wolffhardt started slalom on the Danube at the age of eight . As a result, she was trained by her father until she made the jump to the national team at the age of 15. She had her first success in 2010 at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore , where she won the bronze medal in the kayak single (K1). The following year, she paddled for silver in the team competition at the European Championships in La Seu d'Urgell with Corinna Kuhnle and Violetta Oblinger-Peters . At the EM 2013 in Krakow she jumped into the breach for her favorite compatriot, double world champion Kuhnle, and won her first individual medal in the general class with bronze in K1. In 2015, Wolffhardt managed to get the OKV to start in the Canadier . At the World Championships in 2014 and 2015 , she was able to win a medal as a team, as well as at the U23 European Championship in 2015, because even the gold medal. She finished the Canoe Slalom World Cup in 2015 in third place overall.
With regard to the 2016 Olympic Games Wolffhardt was in the Hope squad ÖOC added, Corinna Kuhnle was beaten in the internal qualification though. At the U23 World Cup 2016 in Nova Gorica , she won the gold medal in an individual discipline for the first time in the kayak single. After another silver medal with the team at the World Championships in Pau , she celebrated the biggest success of her career to date with the European Championship in Canadier.
Viktoria Wolffhardt is an HSZ athlete in the armed forces and is studying biology and English to become a teacher.
successes
- 2010: Bronze at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games (K1)
- 2011: Silver at the European Canoe Slalom Championships (K1 team)
- 2012: Austrian State Champion (K1)
- 2013: Bronze at the European Canoe Slalom Championships (K1)
- 2014: Silver at the Canoe Slalom World Championships (K1 team)
- 2015: Gold at the U23 World Championships (K1 team)
- 2015: Bronze at the Canoe Slalom World Championships (C1 team)
- 2015: Third place in the overall World Cup
- 2016: Gold at the U23 World Championships (K1)
- 2017: Silver at the Canoe Slalom World Championships (K1 team)
- 2018: Gold at the European Canoe Slalom Championships (C1)
- 2018: Silver at the European Canoe Slalom Championships (K1 team)
Awards
- Lower Austrian young athlete of the years 2010–2013 and 2015
- 2012: Austrian Youth Sports Prize
- 2016: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
Web links
- Viktoria Wolffhardt's Facebook page
- Viktoria Wolffhardt at Project Rio
- Viktoria Wolffhardt at Red Bull
Individual evidence
- ↑ Viktoria Wolffhardt - press kit. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ EM bronze for 18-year-old Wolffhardt. Courier , June 9, 2013, accessed August 28, 2016 .
- ^ "Stubborn" Wolffhardt. NÖN , January 20, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolffhardt wins U23 European Championship title in white water slalom. ORF , August 28, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Viktoria Wolffhardt: Away from the wild water. sportmagazin.at, accessed on August 29, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wolffhardt, Viktoria |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolffhardt, Viki |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian canoeist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1994 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tulln on the Danube |