Anton Lahdenperä

Anton Lahdenperä ( born March 19, 1985 in Gällivare ) is a Swedish alpine skier. He belongs to the Swedish National Ski Team since 2003, his specialist discipline is the slalom.

Career

Lahdenperä launched in November 2000 for the first time in FIS races. First national successes came in 2002, when he was three times the Swedish junior champion. In the same year he first participated in a Junior World Championship, but remained without result. The following year, it was only the 30th place in the giant slalom. In 2004, he was then connected to the national peak in the giant slalom and won its first Swedish championship titles, at the Junior World Championships he came in eighth place in the slalom and ninth in the giant slalom.

Internationally, he established himself in early 2005 in the European Cup races with two second place finishes in the slalom. In the 2005/06 season he drove in five of the last seven slalom race in the top three and finished at the end in the discipline standings behind his countryman Mattias Hargin second place.

After Lahdenperä had already contested in January 2005 at the slalom in Wengen a first World Cup race, he was appointed to the Swedish World Cup squad for the season 2006 /07. In the second race of the season in Beaver Creek he went surprisingly to ninth place and this year took his best ever World Cup result. This season, the Swede still four more times in the points, and a year later he was able to score five times. However, in the 2008/ 09 season he managed not a single countable result. In the 2009/10 season Lahdenperä went back three times in the Top 20, reaching number 13 in the slalom in Zagreb, his second-best World Cup result. In addition, for four years he reached the European Cup for the first time podiums and thus won the slalom standings. Slightly worse than the previous winter was the World Cup season 2010/11, in which a 19th place in the slalom in Val d'Isere his best result was. Very bad was the 2011/12 season, scored in the second World Cup slalom in only Lahdenperä than 26 and otherwise could never qualify for the second round, after which he was demoted after the winter from the World Cup in the European Cup squad.

Achievements

Junior World Championships

• Briançonnais 2003: 30 Giant Slalom
• Maribor 2004: Slalom 8, 9 Giant Slalom, Super -G 30
• Bardonecchia 2005: 14 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 19, 34 departure

World Cup

European Cup

• Season 2005/ 06: 2nd slalom rating
• Season 2009/ 10: first slalom rating
• 10 podiums

Other successes

• Quintuple Swedish Champion ( giant slalom 2004 slalom 2006 combination 2006 and 2007, Parallel Slalom 2006)
• Triple Swedish Junior Champion (Giant Slalom, Super -G and combined 2002)
• 9 wins in FIS races