Michi Halilović
Mirsad "Michi " Halilovic ( born September 4, 1983 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German skeleton pilot.
Mirsad Halilovic is of Bosnian origin and currently starts for the WSV Koenigssee, previously also for the RC Berchtesgaden. Since 2000 he is active in the sport and is coached by Bernhard Lehmann, Raimund Bethge and Sepp Dossthaler. The police chief contender was 2005 World Junior Champion, 2006, he missed another medal in fourth. German junior champion he was in 2005, at the German Championships of the same year he finished fourth in 2004 and 2006, he finished fifth. In 2008 he managed the victory at the German Championships for 2009 before Florian Grassl and David Ling man.
Since 2000, Halilovic first started out in the European Cup and was in season 2002/ 03 Third, the 2003/ 04 second in the overall standings. He then moved to the World Cup. In Winterberg he arrived in 2005 as a fourth first outstanding result, he with a third and then in Winterberg with a second place behind Alexander Tretyakov still improved in his first season in Cesana inserts 2007. So far it reached six times rankings among the top 10 in the 2008/ 09 season, Halilovic could not qualify for the World Cup team and subsequently went into the race series including, the Skeleton Intercontinental to. There, he won the first four of the eight races of the season, was once each second and third and was at the end of the season in the standings the clear winner ahead of Chris Type and Alexander Gaszner. His only World Cup race in St. Moritz, where he was starting at the Junior World Championships replaced, Halilovic finished fourth. At the World Championships in February 2009 in Lake Placid Halilovic 5th place, thus achieving the best German result at the season climax. In the World Cup season 2009/10 he won his first World Cup race in Altenberg. At his first Olympic participation in Vancouver 2010 Halilovic landed at the Whistler Sliding Centre on the 13th Place. In the 2010/11 season he scored six top - 10 finishes in the World Cup and was sixth in the overall standings. At the European Championships in Winterberg, he was ninth at the World Championships in Koenigssee fifth.
The 2011/12 season began with an accident, in which Halilovic in a training run the Discus his left hand anriss and greatly injured the capsule. Thus, he was forced to a five-week break and was unable to attend the national qualifying for the World Cup, he was nevertheless used in the Intercontinental. There he convincingly won seven of eight races organized and his second overall victory in this series assured superior with almost 200 points ahead of the Canadians and the British Wlodarczak Charles Ed Smith. He paused individual victories at the ICC on a total of eleven.