Armin Assinger
Armin Ignaz Assinger ( born June 7, 1964 in Graz ) is a former Austrian alpine skier and now to television presenter. He grew up in Hermagor in Carinthia on, graduated in 1982 at the BORG Hermagor and was until 1996 the gendarmerie officer. In his athletic career, which was interrupted twice by serious injury, he won four World Cup races. At the World Championships and Olympic Games, it remained without much success. Since 1995 Assinger is as a co- commentator for ski races and since 1999 as a facilitator of various TV shows to see, among others, the millionaire show. He was eight times awarded the Romy TV Award. Assinger is married since 1994 with his wife Bettina and father of two children. His younger brother Roland was also a ski racer.
Sports career
A first success was Assinger 1976, when he won the Carinthian school championships in the giant slalom. In 1982, he was Austrian Vice junior champion in the downhill and in combination, from 1984 he was a member of the Austrian Ski Federation squad. His first World Cup race, he played on 15 December 1984 at the Saslong in Val Gardena. In this departure, he came on the 30th place. A year later he went back on the Saslong with rank 14 for the first time in the points and in February 1986 he reached the third place and thus his first podium in the World Cup in the second departure from Åre. In November 1986, Assinger suffered his first serious injury. After a torn ACL in his right knee he had to pause the entire winter. In his comeback season 1987/88 he came in six World Cup downhill into the top 15, his best result was ninth place in Beaver Creek. At the beginning of the next winter Assinger reached second place in the downhill in Val Gardena his second podium finish in January and he was in the double departure from Kitzbühel both times into the top ten. A few days later, the career of the Carinthian suffered another serious setback. On January 18, 1989, he crashed in downhill training at the Lauberhorn in Wengen in the upper part of the track and pulled it several torn ligaments in both knees and ankle injuries. After several operations he could only return to the ski circuit just two years later. In the 1991/92 season he reached two top 10 places in the slopes of Val d'Isere Val Gardena and.
On December 22, 1992 Assinger celebrated in the second super-G of the season 1992/93 in Bad Kleinkirchheim his first World Cup victory. This also the first time he managed to qualify for a major event, the 1993 World Championships in Morioka. There he came in an era marked by difficult wind conditions descent but ranked only 14th Super -G ever needed to be canceled due to bad weather. In March 1993, he celebrated two more wins on the descents in the Sierra Nevada and in Kvitfjell, thus reaching the downhill World Cup and the fourth in the overall World Cup in tenth place. With his victory in the Sierra Nevada Assinger set a world record is still valid today: With 112.37 km / h, he scored the highest ever driven in a ski race average speed. In the 1993/94 season Assinger could not repeat last year's performance. His best results were third place in the Super G Lech and fourth place in the Super G in Wengen. On the descent, he came only once in the top ten. Also at the Olympic Winter Games 1994, he remained with eleventh place in the Super G and 15th place in the downhill behind expectations. On 17 December 1994 Assinger in the downhill in Val d'Isere celebrated his fourth World Cup victory. In January 1995, he drove in Kitzbühel in second place in the downhill and finished third in the Super- G and the Lauberhorn course also to third. With five other top 10 places he came in the 1994/95 season in the World Cup in twelfth place in the downhill World Cup in fourth and Super- G World Cup in eighth. A chance of medals at major events, but he did not get because the World Cup in the Sierra Nevada had to be postponed for a year due to lack of snow. After the season Assinger ended his career as a ski racer.
Sporting successes
Olympic Winter Games
- Lillehammer 1994: 11 Super -G, downhill 15
World Championships
- Morioka 1993: 14 Departure
World Cup
- 1992/ 93: 10th overall World Cup, 4th exit 10 Super -G
- Season 1994/95: 12th overall World Cup, 4th exit, 8 Super -G
- Ten podiums, including four victories:
TV presenter
During his second injury collected Assinger experience as a co-commentator of the ORF in ski racing. Since 1995 (until 2006 on the side of Robert Seeger ) comments and analyzes alpine ski racing. In 1999, he unveiled the ORF show lucky, since September 2002, he moderated as successor by Barbara Stöckl Millionenshow, the Austrian version of the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1998, the Special Jury Prize he was awarded for his Skiberichterstattung. From 2000 to 2002, Armin was awarded three times in a row with a Golden Romy as the most popular sports presenter and from 2003 to 2005, he was three times the Golden Romy as the most popular show and talk show host. 2005 moderated Assinger the Romy Awards itself Particularly striking in his presentations is the conscious use of the Carinthian dialect. For this he received in August 2009 by the Friends Bairische language and dialects Bairische the root of language. As the price had previously been called " North Bavarian - medium Bavarian language root ", the Carinthian but forms the Südbairische together with the Tyrolese, the name of the prize had to be changed. In autumn 2009 Assinger was seen in the ORF - reality show The Race. Since October 2012, he presented the mission ones team in one ORF.
Movies
- 2001: Soko Kitzbühel ( The Idol )
Awards
- Eight times Golden Romy: Special Jury Award in 1998
- Most popular sports presenter in 2000, 2001 and 2002
- Most popular Show and talk show host in 2003, 2004 and 2005
- Best Entertainment in 2013
Publications
- Where the Comanches pfeif'n .... 1999, ISBN 3-85050-061-6
- Also winners are afraid. 2002, ISBN 3-902335-00-9