Andreas Prommegger
Andreas Prommegger ( born November 10, 1980 in Schwarzach im Pongau) is an Austrian snowboarder.
- 2.3.1 Parallel Giant Slalom
- 2.3.2 Snowboard Cross
- 2.3.3 Parallel Slalom
- 2.3.4 Giant Slalom
Career
Prommegger began his career as a skier, but switched in 1992 and entered the sport since then as snowboarders. He completed the first competitions two years later. In 1995 he was admitted to the Salzburg Provincial squad and made his debut in 1997 - now a member of the B- squad of the Austrian national team - in the World Cup. Prommeggers best result in this competition series for a long time remained a 19th rank he reached in November 1997 in the parallel slalom in Soelden. Just over two years later the Austrians scored his first World Cup top ten result, an eighth place in the parallel slalom in Tandadalen. During this time, the 20 -year-old was one for several years for junior world: In 1998, he had missed a medal at the Junior World Championship in fourth only just a year later he won the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom and 2000 he was in this discipline as well as in Parallel Slalom Junior World Championship title win.
In the following seasons to Prommegger established and among adults in the advanced world leaders; reach him several victories in the European Cup and regular top- ten finishes in the World Cup. From 2004, he renounced further launches in snowboard cross and focused on the parallel disciplines in which he had hitherto achieved his greatest successes. Since 2005, Prommegger qualified for every major event and continuously recorded there results between fourth and ninth. After he had reached constant good rankings in the 2005/06 season, the 25 -year-old was also in his first Olympic Games in Turin in 2006 as one of the favorites. Before the start, he explained, was in it for him to be at the Olympics " long not everything," he can still improve and compete with the best. In addition Prommegger, which was assessed as " more sophisticated, feeling driver, '" the Olympic slopes in Bardonecchia would be in his technique meant. After all, he was eliminated in the second round and finished ninth overall place.
After another second, and third places in the years 2006 and 2007 Andreas Prommegger succeeded in January 2008 at the 146th World Cup race, the first victory. In the Spanish La Molina, he won ahead of his teammate and friend Anton Unterkofler the parallel giant slalom, even though he had dislocated his right shoulder before the race. A year later he triumphed in Sudelfeld for the second time in a World Cup and repeated this success twelve months later in the same race. Since the race was in Sudelfeld the last parallel giant slalom in Vancouver before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Prommegger came again into the favorite role that he saw positive. After the victory in the qualification was repeated in Vancouver but the result of Turin: Prommegger was eliminated in the second round and placed himself in ninth place. His teammate Benjamin Karl, whom he had defeated at the " Olympic dress rehearsal ", won the silver medal in the same race. In the World Cup he like never before, however, so well cut and reached the third place. He was also second in the World Cup Parallel Giant Slalom discipline. This trend continued Prommegger when he decided for the first race of the winter 2009/10 and thereby triumphed for the first time in the parallel slalom.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Sochi 2014: 8 parallel giant slalom