Felix Neureuther

Felix Neureuther ( born March 26, 1984 in Munich -Pasing ) is an alpine skier from Garmisch -Partenkirchen. The son of Rosi Mittermeier and Christian Neureuther and brother of Ameli Neureuther specializes in the slalom and giant slalom. As an official of the simple customs service in the Federal Customs Administration, he is a member of the Customs ski team.

Biography

With two and a half years Neureuther was under the supervision of his father for the first time on skis. With three years he won his first race at the children's ski club championships SC Partenkirchen. After numerous other successes in children's race he was seven German Youth Champion. He drove his first FIS race in early 2000. This year he took also the first time at the German Championships, both the juniors and the seniors who participate. The Alpine Ski World Junior Championships in 2001 in the Swiss town of Verbier, he took the victory by Stefan Kogler in slalom ninth place. 2003, the Bavarian Sport Award in the category Outstanding (r ) young athletes, he was awarded ( in ), after seeing the places 15 and 35 occupied at the World Championships in St. Moritz in the slalom and giant slalom and won his first title at the German Championships.

His first World Cup race denied Neureuther on 4 January 2003 in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, where he was eliminated in the first run. His first World Cup points he won the slalom in Italy Madonna di Campiglio on 15 December of the same year in which he finished eighth.

In the spring of 2004, he graduated from high school from becoming rock -Gymnasium in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. The following summer, 2004, with him an acute cardiac disease - an inflammation of the pericardium - determined and prescribed him a forced break in skiing. Beginning of December 2004 came Felix Neureuther back into skiing and finished sixth in the first slalom of the World Cup season 2004/2005 in Beaver Creek. In the 2005 World Ski Championships in Bormio, he won the German team in the inaugural team event gold, his first World Cup medal. In the slalom, he was nineteenth.

At the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, he reached the third place in the slalom in Beaver Creek his first podium in the World Cup and qualified for the World Cup 2007. In January 2007 he drove in the two slalom in Kitzbuehel on the ranks of five and six. At the World Championships in Åre, he was in the slalom after the first round in second place, but retired in the second round of.

In the first two World Cups of the season 2008/2009 where he took part in a giant slalom in Sölden and a slalom in Levi, he could not qualify for the second run. He played his next race in the European Cup at the Reiteralm in Austria, but could also not achieve top rankings. Soon afterwards, however, he won two FIS races in Mutters each before Manfred Pranger and Mattias Hargin. His first World Cup points he won in the super combined in Val d' Isere than 24 In the next technical races in Alta Badia, he retired again in both races in the first run out. On 2 January 2009, he won the inaugural parallel slalom in Moscow. The show competition where in the city, an artificial slope was built, should serve as a promotional event for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere he missed fourth slalom medal just barely.

In the 2009/2010 World Cup season Felix Neureuther was able to celebrate his first two World Cup victories: On 24 January 2010, he won the slalom on the Ganslernhang in Kitzbühel, and the World Cup Final on 13 March 2010, he won in his home town of Garmisch -Partenkirchen in the slalom on the Gudiberg. Neureuther finished the season in fifth place in the slalom discipline standings.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 he reached surprising eighth place in the giant slalom. In the race of his special slalom discipline, where he had started as favorites for a medal, but he was eliminated in the first round. Also in the 2011 World Championships in his hometown Neureuther different from the slalom, while he finished only 34th in the giant slalom. A week after the World Cup, he scored his first World Cup podium of the season 2010/2011 when he surprisingly in the super combination of Bansko was second. At the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, he stood as the third in slalom a second time at the podium.

In the World Cup Winter 2011/2012 Neureuther went on the podium four times ( three second places and one third place), but a victory he did not succeed. He had at the World Cup finals in Schladming, when he led after the first run, but was then intercepted or by André Myhrer The best chance. His third World Cup victory scored Neureuther on 1 January 2013 at the City event in Munich, where he was able to prevail in the finals against the Austrian Marcel Hirscher. The first podium in a World Cup giant slalom, he reached on 12 January 2013, third in Adelboden. On 20 January, he decided the slalom in Wengen for themselves. At the World Championships 2013 in Schladming Neureuther could, again in the team competition, winning his second World Championships bronze medal. In the final slalom race he finished in second place and thus won his first individual medal at a World Cup.

The preparation for the 2013/14 season was not optimal. In June 2013, he had to have surgery on the ankle to remove a ganglion. The healing process was difficult, which is why he missed a large part of the summer training. It was not until September, he was able to train fully again. Although he had suffered in mid-December in a practice crash a capsule scribe his right thumb, he won on January 6, 2014 at the slalom in Bormio and pulled it, measured by the number World Cup victories, with his father the same. Five days later, on 11 January 2014 he also ruled the giant slalom in Adelboden for themselves. It was the first Giant Slalom World Cup victory of a German since March 2, 1973, when Max Rieger had won at Mont Sainte -Anne. Upon arrival at the Olympic Winter Games Neureuther had a car accident caused by black ice on the highway. In a study a whiplash injury and a rib injury was found. Still, he could start at the games. In the giant slalom, he finished eighth in the slalom, he retired - finished seventh with a short distance to a medal position lying - in the second round of.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Vancouver 2010: 8 Giant Slalom
  • Sochi 2014: 8 Giant Slalom

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003 15 Slalom, Giant Slalom 35
  • Bormio 2005: 1st Team, 19th slalom
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 4th Slalom, Giant Slalom 19
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 34 Giant Slalom
  • Schladming 2013: Slalom 2nd, 3rd team, 10 Giant Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Verbier 2001: 9 Slalom
  • Maribor 2004: 14 Giant Slalom

World Cup ratings

World Cup wins

Neureuther won so far 29 podiums, 9 wins:

There are also two victories as a team member in the team competition:

German Championships

Neureuther is nine times German Champion:

  • 5 times Giant Slalom: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
  • 3 times Slalom: 2003, 2008, 2014
  • 1 time of departure: 2009

Other successes

  • A victory (slalom in Kranjska Gora on March 9, 2010) and a further four podium finishes in the European Cup
  • 2 wins in the Australian New Zealand Cup
  • 9 wins in FIS races
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