Vincent Kriechmayr

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Vincent Kriechmayr Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 1st October 1991 (age 28)
place of birth Linz , Austria
size 185 cm
Career
discipline Giant slalom , super-G ,
downhill , combined
society TVN catfish
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Åre 2019 Super G
bronze Åre 2019 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Crans-Montana 2011 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 19, 2010
 Individual world cup victories 6th
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (2018/19)
 Super G World Cup 2. ( 2017/18 , 2018/19, 2019/20)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 48th ( 2014/15 )
 Combination World Cup 9. (2018/19)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 3 0
 Super G 4th 3 3
last change: March 8, 2020

Vincent Kriechmayr (born October 1, 1991 in Linz , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian ski racer . His strongest discipline is the super-G .

biography

Kriechmayr, who lives in Gramastetten in Upper Austria , learned to ski from his father, who was a ski instructor in Obertauern in Salzburg . His mother is an art history teacher from Belgium who named her son after the painter Vincent van Gogh .

After reaching the age limit of 15 years, Kriechmayr took part in FIS races for the first time in the 2006/2007 season , but initially did not achieve any top positions. It was not until the winter of 2009/2010 that the then national team runner achieved top 10 placements in several FIS races, after which he was also used in the European Cup from mid-January 2010 . He was also able to take part in the 2010 Junior World Championships, where he achieved fourth place in the giant slalom as the best result and narrowly missed a medal rank. A few days before the Junior World Championships, he secured the Austrian junior championship titles in giant slalom and super-G in his youth class II. At the end of the season, in addition to several victories in FIS races, the junior title in the downhill was added.

In spring 2010, Kriechmayr was accepted by the Upper Austrian regional team in the B-team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). At the 2011 Junior World Championships in Crans-Montana , he won the silver medal in giant slalom behind Alexis Pinturault . He was also among the top ten in Super-G, Downhill and Combined. At national level, he successfully defended his junior downhill title in 2011. In the European Cup he achieved his first top 10 placements in 2010/2011, while in his first three giant slalom appearances in the World Cup he did not make it to the second round.

On February 23, 2012, Kriechmayr celebrated his first victory in the European Cup in the super combination of Sella Nevea , with which he also secured victory in the super combination discipline classification of the 2011/12 season . He was only used once in the World Cup this winter: In the giant slalom in Sölden , he again failed to qualify for the second round. In spring 2012, Kriechmayr rose from the B to the A squad of the ÖSV. He won his first World Cup points on December 7, 2013 when he finished 16th in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . On March 2, 2014, he finished 5th in the Kvitfjell Super-G for the first time in the top 10.

In the 2014/15 season , Kriechmayr confirmed his performance with consistent results in the top 30. On December 20, 2014, he reached 4th place in the Super-G in Val Gardena . On March 8, 2015, he finished 2nd in the Kvitfjell Super-G behind Kjetil Jansrud ; it was his first World Cup podium finish. He achieved his first World Cup victory on December 1, 2017 in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . On January 27, 2018, he made it onto a downhill podium for the first time with second place on the downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he finished seventh in the downhill as the best Austrian. At the World Cup final in Åre , he and his teammate Matthias Mayer won a downhill run for the first time on the 2007 and 2019 World Cup course, thus saving the Austrian men's team from a season without a downhill win. In the 2018/19 World Cup season, Kriechmayr won the Lauberhorn run , and there were two medals at the 2019 World Cup in Åre.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

  • St. Moritz 2017 : 5th Super-G, 8th Alpine Combined, 19th descent
  • Åre 2019 : 2nd Super-G, 3rd Downhill, 17th Alpine Combined

World cup

  • 15 podium places, including 6 wins:
date place country discipline
1st December 2017 Beaver Creek United States Super G
March 14, 2018 Are Sweden Departure *
15th March 2018 Are Sweden Super G
19th January 2019 Wengen Switzerland Departure
20th December 2019 Val Gardena Italy Super G
February 29, 2020 Hinterstoder Austria Super G

* at the same time as Matthias Mayer

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2013/14 59. 104 - - 23. 79 - - 18th 25th
2014/15 24. 356 21st 112 6th 196 48. 6th 12. 42
2015/16 14th 555 18th 182 4th 298 - - 10. 75
2016/17 28. 309 14th 160 14th 117 - - 17th 32
2017/18 7th 704 5. 384 2. 320 - - - -
2018/19 5. 739 3. 339 2. 346 55. 1 9. 53
2019/20 5. 794 6th 362 2. 362 - - 11. 70

Junior World Championships

European Cup

  • 2011/12 season : 1st super combination ranking
  • Season 2012/13 : 3rd overall classification, 2nd Super-G classification, 4th super combination classification, 7th downhill classification
  • 2013/14 season : 8th overall ranking, 1st super combination ranking
  • 8 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
February 23, 2012 Sella Nevea Italy Super combination
January 28, 2014 Crans-Montana Switzerland Super G
January 29, 2014 Crans-Montana Switzerland Super combination

More Achievements

  • 3 Austrian championship titles (Super-G 2017 and 2018, combination 2017)
  • Austrian youth champion (youth II) in giant slalom, super-G and downhill 2010 as well as in downhill 2011
  • 6 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Vincent Kriechmayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Ski Association (publisher): National team 2011/12. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2011, p. 32.
  2. ↑ Olympic Team Austria - KRIECHMAYR Vincent. ÖOC , accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 3 questions for… Vincent Kriechmayr. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, December 20, 2010, accessed on February 29, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Vincent Kriechmayr envisions a victory. skionline.ch, March 8, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b Vincent Kriechmayr won medals at Austrian youth championships. Austrian Ski Association, accessed on February 25, 2012 .
  6. ↑ ÖSV announces squad line-ups for 2010-2011 with large participation from Upper Austria. State Ski Association of Upper Austria, May 10, 2010, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved February 25, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Vincent Kriechmayr in the FIS database. FIS-Ski, February 21, 2015, accessed on February 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Jansrud wins ahead of Kriechmayr in Kvitfjell. ORF, March 8, 2015, accessed on March 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kriechmayr, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1991