Anja Haas

Anja Haas ( * May 30, 1971 in Zell am Ziller ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. It belonged in the first half of the 1990s to the strongest Austrian downhill skiers and also scored in the combination of good results. On the descent, they won three World Cup races and the bronze medal at the World Championships in 1993.

Career

Anja Haas visited the Skihauptschule in Neustift and then Skihandelsschule in Stams. First international successes they achieved at the Junior World Championships, where she took part from 1988 to 1990. After she had in 1988 already achieved a fifth place in the downhill, she won two bronze medals in 1989 in Aleyska in the downhill and in the combination and 1990 in Zinal another bronze medal in the combination. During the same period she was also at the Austrian Junior Championships several times on the podium. Although they performed well in the junior races in all disciplines, it focused mainly on the exit in the World Cup. That they had potential in the slalom, she proved several times by good results in combinations.

In the season 1989/1990 Haas won with two ninth places in the combinations of Steamboat Springs and house in the Enns Valley first World Cup points. From 1990 she was a member of the national team of the Austrian Ski Federation, and was a regular on the World Cup for use. After four more top- 10 finishes, the then 19 -year-old in the departure of Furano on February 24, 1991 celebrated her first World Cup victory. For a possible participation in the World Championships in Saalbach -Hinterglemm, however, this success came too late, there she was just a spectator. Three weeks after their victory Haas reached the second place in the departure of Vail, making it seventh in the downhill World Cup and twelfth in the World Cup was in the 1990/1991 season. In addition, she finished as the year eighth in the combined standings and it was 1991 Austrian downhill champion.

In the season 1991/1992 Haas had then to confirm the good results of their first full World Cup winter some effort. Ultimately, remained a second place in the combination of Schruns her best World Cup result. On the descent, it was no more than fifth place out, since the beginning of February she suffered in Grindelwald a torn ACL, and then the season was premature for them to end. The next winter began Haas with a fifth place in the departure of Vail. But after that she came only at the end of January again among the top ten. After she had missed the Olympics due to injury last year, she was able to participate for the first time at a major event this year. In the period marked by the bad weather World Cup 1993 in Japan Morioka Shizukuishi it reached something surprising third place in the downhill and won behind the Canadian Kate Pace and the Norwegian Astrid Lødemel the bronze medal. Then it went uphill again in the World Cup and two weeks after the World Cup downhill she stood in the Swiss Veysonnaz for the second time to first place in a World Cup downhill. At season's end, they eventually finished fourth in the downhill World Cup, which was her best result in a World Cup discipline.

The 1993/1994 season began Haas claimed 18th place in Tignes with her third World Cup victory in the departure of St. Anton am Arlberg. Then top rankings, however, remained largely cease only in January, it achieved a sixth place in the downhill in Cortina d' Ampezzo. Also at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer she succeeded no respectable result. In the descent, which was held in Kvitfjell, she placed herself with over three seconds behind only on rank 31, and in combination they eliminated in the first slalom passage after they had occupied the equally disappointing 23rd place in the combination of departure. At the end of the winter they retreated to the departure of Vail a severe pelvic injury, which is why they could only late start training for next season. During the season 1994/1995 she was compromised as a result of its fall but by persistent back pain and a 24th place in the downhill for Åre remained her best World Cup result this winter. Not much better their results were at the beginning of the next winter and Haas decided during the 1995/1996 season her career at the age of 24 years to finish.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Lillehammer 1994: 31 Departure

World Championships

  • Morioka 1993: 3rd exit

Junior World Championships

  • Madonna di Campiglio 1988: 5th exit, 8 Super -G
  • Aleyska 1989: 3rd exit, 3 combination, 6 Slalom, Giant Slalom 19
  • Zinal 1990: 3 combination, 8 Slalom, Giant Slalom 10 17 Departure

World Cup

  • Season 1989/1990: 8 Combined World Cup
  • Season 1990/1991: 7 Downhill World Cup, 8th Combined World Cup
  • Season 1991/1992: 6 Combined World Cup
  • Season 1992/1993: 4 Downhill World Cup, 10th Combined World Cup
  • 1993/1994 season: 10 Downhill World Cup
  • 5 podiums including 3 victories:

Austrian Championships

  • Austrian Champion in downhill in 1991
Alpine skiing combined FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 1991 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1992 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1990 Alpine Skiing World Cup Steamboat Springs, Colorado Furano, Hokkaido FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1991 Vail (Colorado) Morioka, Iwate 1994 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1995 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1996 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
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