Beat Feuz

Beat Feuz (born 11 February 1987 in Schangnau ) is a Swiss ski racer. He specializes in the disciplines of downhill and Super -G and is a member of the national team since 2011 by Swiss-Ski. His greatest successes so far are the winning three gold medals at the Junior World Cup 2007, the victory in the downhill on the Lauberhorn in Wengen in 2012, and the second place in the overall World Cup of the season 2011/12.

  • 2.1 The Olympic Games
  • 2.2 World Championships
  • 2.3 Junior World Championships
  • 2.4 World Cup ratings
  • 2.5 World Cup wins
  • 2.6 Further successes

Biography

Youth and Junior Time

Feuz, the son of a farmer, learned to ski in his home town Schangnau in the rear Emmental. His first children's race he won at the age of seven years. In February 1995, a day before his eighth birthday, he broke the Ski jumping at a JO race in Adelboden two heels and was then for three months confined to a wheelchair. In 2002 he won the slalom at the Trofeo Topolino. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship as a bricklayer.

As a 15 -year-old Feuz denied in December 2002, his first FIS races, where he first took up mainly in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom. The first missions in the European Cup was followed in November 2004. Moreover, the slalom proved to be his strongest discipline. In this Feuz won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championship 2005 in Bardonecchia. End of December 2005, he managed the first victory in a FIS race, a slalom in Soerenberg. 2006 awarded him the Swiss Sports Aid as best young athletes of the year.

Long injury lay-off

On December 10, 2006 Feuz took on the Reiteralm first time at a World Cup race in part and classified in the super combined at No. 33 Increasingly, he began to also challenge Downhill and Super - G. At the Junior World Championship 2007 Feuz proved to be by far the most successful participants: In Altenmarkt he won the gold medal in the downhill and super-G, in Flachau, he was third in the slalom and giant slalom in the eleventh. In addition, he won the gold medal in the composite of departure, giant slalom and slalom combined score. Feuz was allowed to take in the Lenzerheide at the World Cup Final and took on 14 March 2007 with 14th place in the downhill once the first World Cup points. Due to its small and then a little chubby stature and his quickness he received from teammates nicknamed " ball lightning ."

In September 2007, Feuz moved during training on the Theodulgletscher in Zermatt for a torn ACL and had as a result of skipped the entire 2007/08 season. In 2008 he was the Sports Aid named for the second time as a junior athlete of the year, which was only the cyclist Fabian Cancellara managed before him. Also in the 2008/ 09 season, Feuz could deny a single race, having suffered another knee injury ( bucket-handle tear at the meniscus ) in the final training session for the first World Cup downhill in Lake Louise on November 28, 2008.

Climb to the top of the world

After a two -year injury layoff Feuz attacked early in the season 2009/10 a to the World Cup events. In contrast to the junior time he now focused completely on the speed disciplines Downhill and Super- G, where at first he was able to establish himself in midfield. In January 2010, he went at the Lauberhorn in Wengen, ranked 12 in the super combined, synonymous with its previously best World Cup result.

Similarly initially ran the 2010/11 season with multiple placements in midfield. End of February 2011 he met in Kitzbühel, Chamonix the first time in the top ten. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen Feuz reached a ninth place in the downhill. In the combination, departure he went to second place, but had to retire in the slalom to the finish, and awarded a realistic chance to win a medal. The final breakthrough of the world leaders he succeeded on 11 March 2011 with his first World Cup victory when he won the downhill on the Olympic hill in Kvitfjell, followed by a third place in the downhill one day later. End of the season he won the Swiss championship in the super combined.

The first Weltucp - podium finish in a super -G Feuz posted on December 3, 2011 3rd place on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek. On December 16, followed on the Saslong in Val Gardena, the first victory in this discipline. In the Lauberhorn race in Wengen, he was on 13 January 2012 as the second in the super-combined for the first time in this discipline on the podium. A day later, he decided the prestigious Lauberhorn downhill for themselves. In the course of the season 2011/12 drew between Beat Feuz, the Austrian Marcel Hirscher and Ivica Kostelic the Croats more and more from a three-way battle for the win in the World Cup overall standings. With a total of four podiums to Feuz classified in the combined standings to second place behind Kostelic. Since the Croat had to make then a four-week injury lay-off to Feuz supplied with Hirscher now a duel. He won the downhill on the pink Chutor in Krasnaya Polyana ( near Sochi ) and the super -G in Kvitfjell. The World Cup finals in Schladming, hyped up by the media to the big " Showdown", taking with him 55 points ahead in attack. This he built in the last downhill of the season in the meantime on 135 points; in the discipline standings, he was beaten by 7 points Klaus Kroell. After Feuz ' failure and Hirscher's surprising third place in the final super-G, the advantage lay back on the side of the Austrian. In the last giant slalom Feuz had no points, while Hirscher won and overtook him in the overall standings. Since Feuz renounced the final slalom, Hirscher was thus established as the overall winner.

Injury and comeback

After the end of the season 2011/12 Feuz let fix a bone demolition in his left knee, at the summer training in Chile, he suffered the same knee cartilage and meniscus damage. At a start at the opening round of the World Cup season 2012/13 waived Feuz, shortly after he had once again because of an inflammation in his left knee in medical treatment. On November 21, 2012, he announced to contest the 2012/13 not racing due to ongoing knee problems throughout the winter. His comeback he gave November 30, 2013 at the Super -G of Lake Louise, in which he finished in 30th place. A week later he drove in sixth junction of Beaver Creek have been back to the top. Later in the season, he scored another top 10 ranking.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 13 Downhill, 15 Super Combined, Super G 27

World Championships

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 9 Departure

Junior World Championships

  • Bardonecchia 2005: 3rd slalom, eighth combination, 10 Super -G, Giant Slalom 11th, 35th departure
  • Quebec 2006: 4th exit, 4 Super -G, Giant Slalom 17
  • Altenmarkt / Flachau 2007: 1st exit, first Super -G, 1 combination, 3rd slalom, giant slalom 11

World Cup ratings

  • Season 2010/ 11: 7 downhill World Cup
  • 2011/12 season: 2nd Overall World Cup, 2nd downhill World Cup, 2nd Combined World Cup, 3rd Super - G World Cup

World Cup wins

* At the same time with Klaus Kroell

Other successes

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