Roland Assinger

Roland Assinger ( born May 9, 1973 in Hermagor, Carinthia ) is an Austrian former alpine skier and current coach. As an active racer he specialized in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super- G, and reached the World Cup podium and several top 10 results. His older brother, Armin was also skier.

Career

Assinger was included in the national squad of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ) 1994. In the European Cup he scored the second place in the departure of Saalbach- Hinterglemm in the 1994/95 season. With a further two top-10 results he achieved with one point ahead of his compatriot Rainer Salzgeber and the Russians Andrei Filischkin second place in the downhill standings. At winter's end, he had his first appearance in the World Cup in the downhill in Bormio. He finished the race 21st place.

In the first World Cup downhill of the season 1995/96 Assinger drove in Vail already in sixth. A week later he reached in the downhill in Val d'Isere with a gap of just four hundredths of a second on the winner Luc Alphand second place. However, it did in the rest of the season and in his future career these services no longer repeat, they remained his best World Cup results. In the slopes of Bormio and Kvitfjell he was in this winter twice Tenth and thus in the downhill World Cup Fourteenth, in all other World Cup races of the season he did not come in the top 30 in the European Cup he played in this winter only two Super - Gs, the he finished in fifth and sixth position. In the 1996/97 season Assinger achieved though constant performance, but remained without top result. In ten out of eleven World Cup runs he drove in the points, including seven under the 20th fastest His best result was 13th place in the first downhill in Val Gardena. In the European Cup him in early February get two wins in the two slopes of La Thuile.

At the start of the World Cup season 1997/98 Assinger again managed four top - 10 finishes in a row: In the two slopes of Beaver Creek, he finished fifth and seventh, and in the two slopes of Bormio, he came in eighth place respectively. On 23 January 1998, however, he suffered in a crash on the Streif a serious shoulder injury, so he had to end the season prematurely. After he had not been in the last two years at the World Championships here, this injury now also prevented a possible participation in the Olympic Games in Nagano. The next winter Assinger had to start in the European Cup first again. The best season results he achieved in Altenmarkt with second place in the Super- G and finished sixth in the downhill. In January and March 1999, he also again participated in three World Cup downhills, but did not come across this place 21 out. Therefore, he had to try, even in winter 1999/2000 to get a World Cup Fixstartplatz about the European Cup. In the European Cup he showed constant performance, twice came to the podium and another seven times into the top ten. In the overall standings, he reached eighth place in the Super -G seventh and fifth place in the downhill. The desired Fixstartplatz in the World Cup but he missed so. In his four World Cup downhill this winter he scored eighth place in Kitzbühel and twelfth place in Val Gardena two good rankings.

Also in the 2000/ 01 season scoring Assinger in the European Cup good performance. He was runner-up in each of the slopes of St. Moritz and Sestriere and others in the departure of Altenmarkt. With the fourth place in the downhill standings but he missed again just a World Cup Fixstartplatz. In his only World Cup using the 2000/01 season in the downhill in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, he only finished 33 Finally, he lost his place in the winter after the Austrians squad and he had to train at their own costs. In August 2001, but he withdrew when training a torn ACL, which is why he could not deny race almost throughout the next winter. In the season 2002/ 03 Assinger returned in the European Cup, where he still some good results, including the second and fourth place in the departures of Laax, scored. In the downhill standings, he came in fifth place overall. But that was not enough for a return to the World Cup for only the first three will receive a Fixstartplatz for next season. After the winter of 2002 /03 Assinger ended his active career.

From 2005 to 2006 was Assinger who trained as a certified alpine ski coach, coach of Senegal. In this role he oversaw the living in Austria Leyti Seck, whose father is from Senegal and was the first time participated in a World Cup 2003. From 2008 was Assinger trainer and conditioning coach of the Europa Cup Men in Austrian Ski Federation. Since 2012 he is coach of the Austrian Ski European Cup Ladies.

Achievements

World Cup

  • A podium finish and eight top- 10 finishes

European Cup

  • Season 1994/95: 2nd exit
  • Season 1996/ 97: 10 Departure
  • Season 1998/99: 5 Super -G, downhill 8
  • Season 1999/ 00: 8 overall, 5 downhill, super-G 7
  • Season 2000/ 01: 4th exit
  • Season 2002/ 03: 5 Departure
  • Two wins (both slopes in La Thuile in February 1997) and a further eight podiums
1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup Armin Assinger Vail (Colorado) 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup La Thuile, Aosta Valley 1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup Beaver Creek Resort Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Altenmarkt im Pongau
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