Cristian Javier Simari Birkner

Cristian Javier Simari Birkner ( born October 4, 1980 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro Province ) is an Argentine ski racer. He is the oldest of the siblings Simari Birkner, his sisters María Belén and Macarena are also alpine skiers.

The Argentine is currently the best skiers of South America. But from the 2000 season until the 2012 season, he won eleven times the overall standings of the FIS Cup South America, not to mention numerous discipline ratings. In Ski European Cup Simari Birkner 2001, two third places in slalom managed, he also decided numerous Argentine championships for themselves.

World Cup

In the World Cup Cristian Javier Simari Birkner drives since the season 1998 /1999. He is almost exclusively in the technical disciplines Slalom and Giant Slalom and in the combination and super combined at the start and only very rarely in the disciplines of Super - G and downhill. For a long time remained Simari Birkner not score points, partly because it has a gate faults in the penultimate goal of the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora committed suicide in 2001 (at that time he had qualified for the only time for a second passage in the technical disciplines ) and in 2004 he was safe points in the combination of Chamonix forgave because he was disqualified because of a non-compliant startup. For six years, was a 32nd place in the super combined in Val d'Isere December 11, 2005 Simari Birkner best World Cup result, until he was finally on 12 February 2012 with the 26th place in the Super Combined Krasnaya Polyana the first top- 30 ranking and thus the first points win in the World Cup succeeded.

Major events

Together with his two sisters Cristian Javier participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010 part. His best Olympic placing is the 17th place in the slalom in 2002. Moreover, he represented Argentina already at eight World Alpine Ski Championships (1997 in Sestriere, 1999 in Vail / Beaver Creek, 2001 in St. Anton, 2003 in St Moritz, 2005 in Bormio / Santa Caterina, 2007 in Åre, 2009 in Val d'Isere and 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen ). 17th place was his best result here, which he reached in both 2003 in the giant slalom and the slalom in 2007.

Super-G Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Macarena Simari Birkner 1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup Municipality of Kranjska Gora Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 Vail (Colorado) Beaver Creek Resort FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 Santa Caterina di Valfurva FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011
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