Fritz Dopfer

Fritz Dopfer ( born August 24, 1987 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian- German alpine skier. He specializes in the disciplines of giant slalom and slalom. Dopfer is trained customs sergeant and assigned to the ski team of the German Federal Customs Administration to.

Biography

Dopfer was born fully qualified ski instructor. He possesses the citizenship of Austria and Germany, as his father and his mother is Austrian German. He spent his childhood first in the Bavarian town of Schongau. When he was ten years old, parents moved with him to the Tyrol, where he developed into a talented young skiers. Dopfer visited the Skigymnasium in Stams, from which he graduated with the Matura 2007. He was inducted into the B-team of the Austrian Ski Federation and contested six races in the European Cup. In his age group Youth II he was in 2006 Austrian Junior Champion in slalom and giant slalom in 2007. At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Altenmarkt he drove in the slalom and giant slalom each to seventh place in the combination he finished fifth.

In spring 2007, Dopfer joined the German Ski Association. With this move, he promised himself better development opportunities. To kick off the 2007/2008 season in Sölden Dopfer celebrated his World Cup debut, but missed with rank 51 to qualify for the final round. In January 2008, followed by the second place in the European Cup giant slalom in Hinterstoder the first podium place in the European Cup. In the season 2010/2011 he reached three second places and thus third in the giant slalom standings and fourth place in the European Cup overall standings.

In March 2009, Dopfer was German champion in slalom and a year later German champion in giant slalom. On 30 January 2010 he took the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora in 17th place and won for the first time World Cup points. The best World Cup result in the following season 2010/2011 was a twelfth place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, his first major event, he was appointed as each best German 15th in the giant slalom and 21 in slalom. At the end of the season 2010/2011 he was the second time German slalom champion. 4 December 2011 Dopfer scored his first podium finish in the World Cup as he drove to third place in Beaver Creek giant slalom. It was the first World Cup podium of a German runner in this discipline since Tobias Barnerssoi on 8 January 1994. Likewise Dopfer was third five weeks later at the Lauberhorn in Wengen slalom. He came in the 2011/2012 season for the first time among the top ten in the slalom and giant slalom World Cup and the top 20 in the World Cup. In the giant slalom in Adelboden January 12, 2013, was second and ended up with it again on the podium.

At the World Championships 2013 in Schladming Dopfer won bronze in the team competition his first World Championship medal. The following year, he qualified for the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics and reached at the competitions in Pink Chutor the fourth place in the slalom, where he was behind just five hundredths of a second behind bronze medalist Henrik Kristoffersen. Shortly thereafter, he was second in the Weltcuptorlauf of Kranjska Gora.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 4th Slalom, Giant Slalom 12

World Championships

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 15 Giant Slalom, Slalom 21
  • Schladming 2013: 3rd team competition, 7 Giant Slalom, Slalom 7

World Cup

  • Season 2011/12: 7th World Cup giant slalom, slalom World Cup 8
  • Season 2012/13: 7 World Cup slalom, giant slalom World Cup 9
  • Season 2013/14: 7 World Cup slalom, giant slalom World Cup 7
  • 4 podiums

European Cup

  • Season 2010/2011: 4th overall, 3rd giant slalom rating
  • 4 podiums

Junior World Championships

  • Quebec 2006: 9 Giant Slalom, Downhill 24
  • Flachau / Altenmarkt 2007: 5 combination, 7 Giant Slalom, Slalom 7, 10, Super -G, downhill 17

Other successes

  • 4 German championship (slalom in 2009, 2011 and 2013; Giant Slalom 2010)
  • 2 Austrian Youth Champion title
  • 9 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup Bundeszollverwaltung Schongau, Bavaria Alpine skiing combined Municipality of Kranjska Gora 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 Beaver Creek Resort 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort Christina Geiger Viktoria Rebensburg Susanne Riesch Gina Stechert Felix Neureuther
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