Patrick Küng
Patrick Küng ( born January 11, 1984) is a Swiss ski racer. Since January 2009 he starts the World Cup. He specializes in the disciplines of downhill and Super -G.
Biography
Küng denied his first FIS race in December 1999 and was admitted to the junior squad of the Swiss Ski Federation in 2001. He scored a first international success with victory in the slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2001. In February 2002, he first participated in a European Cup races, but went only regularly from the season 2004/ 05 at the start. In February 2004, Küng took part in the Junior World Championships in Maribor, finishing as the best result to fourth place in the giant slalom. Six weeks later he was at the Swiss Championships 2004 third in the combined standings. On 24 November 2004 Küng reached eighth place in the knockout slalom in the ski hall of Landgraaf first time a top- 10 ranking in the European Cup. The second he achieved on 2 February 2006 with sixth place in the super combination of Veysonnaz.
A little later, however, suffered a serious setback Kung's career: On March 8, 2006, he retired in giant slalom training serious leg injuries and was therefore in the season 2006/ 07 not participate in competitions. After his injury, the Swiss method is especially successful in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super -G. In his comeback season 2007/ 08 he achieved two top 10 finishes in the European Cup. The first European Cup victory he celebrated on 17 December 2008 in the downhill at the Patscherkofel and a month later he won both runs in Les Orres. With these successes, he secured the win the downhill score in the 2008 /09 season and the rise in the Swiss A-team.
His first start in the World Cup had Küng on January 16, 2009 in the super combined in Wengen, where he finished in 19th place and immediately brought the first World Cup points. After three races without points he drove on March 7 in the second departure from Kvitfjell ranked 22 Shortly thereafter, he was behind Tobias Green Fields Swiss vice champion in the downhill. At the start of the European Cup 2009/10 season Küng achieved positions one and two in the two Super - Gs on the Reiteralm and finish the season in third place in the discipline standings. On 10 March 2010, he drove in a World Cup race for the first time on the podium, as he at the same time Erik Guay finished third at the World Cup finals in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. His best World Cup results had previously been two places eleventh in the season 2009/10. Nine days later he was Swiss downhill champion for the first time.
In the season 2010/11 Küng drove in seven World Cup races ( five runs and two Super -G) into the top ten. Best result was a fourth place in the downhill in Bormio on December 29, 2010. A week later, he crashed in the Super G training in Saalbach -Hinterglemm, which he missed the race in Wengen. At the internal team to qualify for the World Cup downhill in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he was unable to attend, so he came to no use at the 2011 World Championships due to illness. Three top 10 places scored Küng in winter 2011 /12, where he for the second time was second in the downhill in Bormio on the podium and reached his best ever World Cup result. However, the season was for him the end of February to end prematurely after he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in a fall in the super -G of Crans -Montana.
In the 2013/14 season Patrick Küng won on December 7, 2013 Super -G of Beaver Creek for the first time in a World Cup race. On January 18, 2014 he won his first departure, the Lauberhorn race in Wengen. Because of the strong wind in the upper part of the track, this was driven in a shortened version.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Sochi 2014: 12 Super -G, downhill 15
World Championships
- Schladming 2013: 7 Downhill, Super-G 18
World Cup
- Season 2013/14: 10th overall, third Super -G World Cup, 6 Downhill World Cup
- 5 podium finishes, including two victories:
European Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 6th overall, 1st exit
- Season 2009/ 10: 3 Super -G
- 5 podiums, including 4 victories:
Junior World Championships
- Maribor 2004: 4 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 6, 19 departure