Elisabeth Görgl

Elizabeth " Lizz " Goergl (* 20 February 1981 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian alpine skier. As an all-rounder they celebrated podium finishes in all World Cup disciplines. She is the daughter of Traudl Hecher and the younger sister of Stephan Goergl. My biggest success so far is the double world champion title in 2011 in the Super G and Downhill.

Biography

Görgl grew up in Parschlug and completed the Skigymnasium in Stams. In 1994 she won the slalom and the giant slalom at the Whistler Cup and 1994 and 1996 slalom at the Trofeo Topolino. As of November 1996, she participated in FIS races, but already one month later, she suffered a cruciate ligament injury. Once again they could deny some races at the beginning of winter 1997/98, followed in January 1998, a second torn ACL, who once again led to a premature termination of the season. After Goergl won in December 1998 for the first time a FIS race, she came from January 1999 in the European Cup for use. At the Junior World Championship 1999 in Pra Loup, she won the bronze medal in the slalom.

On 15 March 2000 Goergl was in slalom in Sestriere her debut in the World Cup, but had no countable income. In winter 2000/ 01 you get three podium finishes in the European Cup race, but a third torn ACL in February 2001, she threw back again. After several months of break, she established herself in the winter of 2001 /02 in the front ranks of the European Cup. With nine wins in four different disciplines Görgl decided in the season 2002/ 03 the overall standings of the European Cup clearly for themselves, as well as the slalom and the giant slalom standings. The first World Cup points she brought on 12 December 2002 as the 13th of the slalom in Val d'Isere. Three weeks later, on January 5, 2003, she succeeded with the second place in the slalom in Bormio, the first podium in a World Cup race. This brought her to qualify for the Alpine World Cup in 2003, where she was eliminated, however.

In the World Cup season 2003/ 04 Görgl scored four podiums, twice second in the slalom and two third in the giant slalom. In order to develop them into a rounder, their coaches put them increasingly also in Downhill and Super -G race. This strategy began to pay off at when they first achieved a top 10 ranking in a super -G in January 2005. While they could hold their level with another podium finish in the giant slalom, the diversification brought about a degradation of performance in the slalom with it. In the season 2005/06 Görgl classified in two runs and a giant slalom in each case as third parties. Rather disappointing ran the 2006 Olympic Winter Games with the failure in the downhill.

Although Görgl drove in the World Cup 2006/07 season out another podium finish, otherwise it was mostly in the midfield classified. At the 2007 World Championships she did not come on the 18th square to the exit. A significant increase in performance, however, succeeded Goergl in the 2007/ 08 season, with victories in the giant slalom in Maribor on 12 January 2008 and Bormio on March 15, 2008. Added to this were five other podium finishes. In the discipline ratings of Super -G and giant slalom, she took second place, respectively, in the overall World Cup fourth place.

With three podiums Görgl could initially hold only in the giant slalom, the level of the previous winter in the World Cup season 2008/ 09. At the 2009 World Championships she won rather unexpectedly then the bronze medal in the super combined, another medal in the downhill they just missed. On December 6, 2009 Goergl won in Lake Louise for the first time in a World Cup super -G, two more podium finishes came over the course of the season 2009/10 added. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, she won two bronze medals in the downhill and giant slalom - 50 years after her mother Traudl Hecher, who won in 1960 as a 16 -year-old, the first of her two Olympic downhill bronze medals.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season Görgl scored in the World Cup three podium finishes and thus belonged to the extended circle of favorites for the World Cup 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. After they had there, the official World Cup song You're the hero sung at the opening ceremony, she won the following day the gold medal in the Super -G. In the super combined after she took fastest time in the downhill the 5th overall. She also won the special departure of almost half a second ahead of Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch, the two Dominatorinnen the previous 15 runs. This took Görgl their second gold medal in just a few days. In the giant slalom she finally finished after the third best running time in the first round to 10th place. After the World Cup, they went in the World Cup three times on the third podium place and fought in World Cup final with the Slovenian giant slalom world champion Tina Maze and the U.S. Super G World silver medalist Julia Mancuso for third place in the overall World Cup - far behind the two leading superior leader interior Riesch and Vonn. This three-way battle for third place Tina Maze decided by their victory in the final slalom clearly for themselves, Goergl came in fourth and fifth Mancuso.

On January 7, 2012 Goergl won her first World Cup downhill in Bad Kleinkirchheim. With two more podium finishes in this discipline, she was at the end of the 2011/2012 season third in the downhill World Cup.

Two years later, on 11 January 2014, it won the World Cup downhill in Zauchensee, which is also the first victory of an Austrian Abfahrerin since its victory in Bad Kleinkirchheim.

Achievements

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010: 3rd exit, 3 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 5, 7, Slalom, Super Combined 18
• Sochi 2014: 11 Giant Slalom, Downhill 16

World Championships

• Santa Caterina 2005: 7 Giant Slalom, 8 combination
• Åre 2007: 18 Departure
• Val d'Isere 2009: 3rd Super Combined Downhill 4, 6, Super -G, Giant Slalom 10, 31 Slalom
• Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 1st exit, first Super -G, 5th Super Combined, Giant Slalom 11
• Schladming 2013: 6 Super Combined Downhill 10, 11, Super -G, Giant Slalom 23

Junior World Championships

• Pra Loup 1999: 3 Slalom, Giant Slalom 8
• Quebec 2000: 8 Departure

World Cup ratings

• Season 2003/ 04: 4 World Cup giant slalom, slalom World Cup 5
• Season 2007/ 08: 4th overall World Cup, 2 Super - G World Cup, 2nd Giant Slalom World Cup
• Season 2008/ 09: 4 giant slalom World Cup, 5th Combined World Cup
• Season 2009/ 10: 6 Overall World Cup, 2 Super - G World Cup, 4th Combined World Cup
• Season 2010/ 11: 4th overall World Cup downhill World Cup 4, 4 giant slalom World Cup, 4th Combined World Cup, 9 super- G World Cup
• Season 2011/12: 3 Downhill World Cup, 10th Combined World Cup
• Season 2012/13: 19th overall World Cup 14 World Cup super-G, giant slalom World Cup 15th, 15th Combined World Cup

World Cup wins

• 38 podiums, including 6 victories:

European Cup

• Season 2002/ 03: 1st overall, 1st giant slalom standings, first slalom rating
• 19 podiums, 9 wins:

Other successes

• 5 times Austrian Champion (slalom in 2004 and 2005, combined in 2005, Super-G in 2006 and 2010)
• Military and police world champion in giant slalom in 2004
• 1 victory in the Nor- Am Cup (1x slalom)
• 7 wins in FIS races (4x Slalom, Super-G 2x, 1x Giant Slalom )

Awards (excerpt)

• 2009: Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 2011: Sportswoman of the Year
• 2012: Prix Monique Berlioux the French Sports Academy ( Académie française des sports ) in Paris for the most outstanding performance of an athlete in the past year