Werner Heel

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Werner Heel Alpine skiing
Werner Heel private 2011
Werner Heel in July 2011
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 23rd March 1982 (age 38)
place of birth Merano , Italy
size 184 cm
Weight 85 kg
Career
discipline Super-G , downhill , combination
society GS Fiamme Gialle
status resigned
End of career 2nd March 2019
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 28, 2001
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 16. ( 2008/09 , 2012/13 )
 Downhill World Cup 3rd ( 2009/10 )
 Super G World Cup 2. (2008/09)
 Combination World Cup 26. (2008/09, 2009/10)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 1 3
 Super G 2 0 3
 team 1 0 0
 

Werner Heel (born March 23, 1982 in Merano ) is a former Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean specialized in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines. He won three races in the World Cup.

biography

Heel grew up in Walten in the municipality of St. Leonhard in Passeier . He first drew international attention in 1995 when he won the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup . In 2004 he won the Italian Super G championship in Caspoggio . Due to numerous injuries, he had to take frequent breaks. In the 2004/05 season Werner Heel delivered his best performance in the European Cup . He achieved third place in the downhill runs in Roccaraso and Bad Kleinkirchheim and fourth place in the Super-G in Tarvisio .

Heel made his debut in the World Cup on December 28, 2001 on the Pista Stelvio in Bormio , where he reached 37th place. In the 2006/07 season he achieved his first top 10 place in ninth place on the downhill in Kvitfjell and finished twelfth in Lake Louise . In 2007 he took part in the Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre , Sweden , but could not finish his run in the super combined. In the Super-G he came in 27th place.

The 2007/08 season was excellent for the South Tyrolean athlete . On November 24, 2007 he reached sixth place in the downhill in Lake Louise. He won his first World Cup race on February 29, 2008 in the downhill in Kvitfjell. Werner Heel confirmed his potential the next day and achieved third place on the same slope. In the 2008/09 season Heel won the Super-Gs in Val Gardena and Åre and took second place in the Super-G World Cup behind Aksel Lund Svindal . At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he finished seventh in the downhill and 14th in the Super-G. At the season finale in Åre on March 15, 2009, he won the team competition with the Italian team, which is only part of the Nations Cup. The 2009/10 World Cup season was also successful, but without a win . Heel made it onto the podium three times and reached third place in the Downhill World Cup. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he just missed a medal after finishing 12th in the downhill in the Super-G with 4th place.

Heel remained without a World Cup podium in the 2010/11 season . His best result was a fifth place in the downhill from Wengen , another four times he went into the top ten. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he was 8th in the Super-G, but only 22nd in the downhill. After Heel had only finished in the top 20 in two World Cup races in the 2011/12 season , he achieved his first podium position in almost three years on December 14, 2012 as third in the Super-G in Val Gardena. The last time he was on the podium was on March 3, 2015 at the Kvitfjell Super-G. In the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons he finished in the points twice, and only once in the 2017/18 season. In winter 2018/19, a 30th place was his best result. Heel contested his last World Cup race on March 2, 2019 on the descent from Kvitfjell.

Private

Werner Heel has been an ambassador for the UNICEF children's aid organization since 2009 . In the 2009/10 season he wore the UNICEF logo as head sponsor, and since 2011 he has been organizing events that also serve a good cause. Heel has been in a relationship with the former Italian ski racer Manuela Mölgg since 2009 .

successes

Werner Heel in Val Gardena 2012

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 10 podium places in individual races, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
February 29, 2008 Kvitfjell Norway Departure
December 19, 2008 Val Gardena Italy Super G
March 12, 2009 Are Sweden Super G

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G combination City event
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2004/05 136. 8th - - 42. 8th - - - -
2005/06 83. 55 41. 16 36. 17th 29 22nd - -
2006/07 74. 89 33. 57 32. 19th 36. 13 - -
2007/08 24. 397 5. 273 21st 106 38. 18th - -
2008/09 16. 491 11. 213 2. 256 26th 22nd - -
2009/10 18th 419 3. 292 17th 90 26th 37 - -
2010/11 34. 256 22nd 118 14th 123 - - 9. 15th
2011/12 97. 45 45. 10 35. 35 - - - -
2012/13 16. 408 10. 184 4th 224 - - - -
2013/14 40. 222 19th 142 22nd 80 - - - -
2014/15 38. 216 15th 186 33. 30th - - - -
2015/16 107. 32 41. 32 - - - - - -
2016/17 120. 19th 41. 19th - - - - - -
2017/18 147. 8th 51. 8th - - - - - -
2018/19 154. 2 58. 2 - - - - - -

European Cup

  • Season 2003/04 : 9 Super-G standings
  • Season 2004/05 : 6. Super-G standings, 7. downhill rating
  • Season 2017/18 : 2nd exit Score
  • 5 podium places

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Werner Heel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Heel says “Servus”. Südtirol News, March 1, 2019, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marcel W. Perren: There is a lot of radio in the ski circus. Blick , December 12, 2017, accessed March 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran