Axel Bäck
Axel Bäck ( born December 23, 1987 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Swedish alpine skier. He specializes in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom.
Biography
Bäck played his first FIS race in May 2003. During the next two years he participated exclusively in Sweden on this race part and came up again in the top ten. The first victory was December 11, 2005 in the Slalom of Geilo in Norway and a month later he was Swedish Junior Champion in slalom. In February 2006, Bäck took part in his first two European Cup slalom, but was not there in the points. In March, he finished at the Junior World Championship 2006 43rd in the downhill, but fell in all other competitions from.
In the season 2006/ 07 Bäck remained in the European Cup on without points in FIS races he managed a victory in the slalom of Funäsdalen on 16 December. At the 2007 World Junior Championships he went to number 29 in the giant slalom and 53rd in the Super -G. In Slalom and Downhill, he did not finish. December 2, 2007 Bäck reached the European Cup with 19th place in the slalom at Åre his first result in the points. In the rest of the season he did not come, however, among the top 30 in FIS races succeeded him in the 2007/ 08 season again only a win, but the next winter he won eight FIS races for themselves. In the European Cup the Swede in the 2008 /09 season twice in the points.
On 27 January 2009 Bäck went in the night slalom on the Planai in Schladming for the first time in a World Cup race at the start, but fell in the first round out. In his second World Cup race, the slalom in Levi on 15 November 2009, after he reached rank 28 in the first run with the third best time in the second round to 15th place and thus won his first World Cup points. Two days later he went with second place in the indoor slalom in Wittenburg in the European Cup for the first time on the podium. With further three second places he also achieved in 2009/10 in the EC- Slalom Ranking second place. His first Top 10 ranking in the World Cup he achieved on 21 December 2009 in the Slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia, when he finished in tenth place. Bäck participated in the slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics, but dropped out after a gate faults in the second round of.
At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen Bäck won the bronze medal with the Swedish team in the team competition, without having it denied a run themselves. In the World Cup slalom, he was eleventh. In the World Cup, he scored in the 2010/ 11 first to the sixth rank in Schladming his hitherto best result before him on March 6, 2011, second place in the slalom in Kranjska Gora ( the same time as Nolan Kasper ), the first podium in a World Cup race succeeded. He ended his season so far strongest in 14th in the slalom World Cup. Other top rankings went from before. Bäck drove in the 2011/12 season six times into the top 15, but in no race in the top ten, and fell in the slalom World Cup back ten places. The next top - 10 finish after his first podium he succeeded only in January 2013 as the ninth of the Lauberhorn in Wengen slalom.
Achievements
World Championships
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 3rd team competition ( as a substitute driver), 11 Slalom
World Cup
- 4 placings in the top ten, including one podium
European Cup
- Season 2009/ 10: 2nd slalom rating
- Season 2013/14: 9 slalom rating
- 8 podiums, including 4 victories:
Junior World Championships
- Quebec 2006: 43 Departure
- Altenmarkt 2007: 29 Giant Slalom, Super -G 53
Other successes
- 2 Swedish champion title (slalom in 2013 and 2014)
- 15 wins in FIS races
- Swedish Slalom Junior Champion 2006