Karin Huttary
Karin Huttary (* May 23, 1977 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian former freestyle athlete and former Swedish Alpine skier. In 2005 she became world champion in ski cross.
Biography
Huttary, whose mother is from Sweden, from 1996 to 2001 Member of the Swedish ski team. She celebrated her biggest success at the Junior World Championship in 1996 in high -Ybrig fourth place in the slalom. She drove mainly FIS ( four wins) and European Cup races (twice top 10 ), in the World Cup they could never classify in the top 30 is.
In 2001, she ended her career in Alpine skiing and went immediately in ski cross racing for Austria at the start. Right in her first season, she was European champion in 2002 in the West Village. At X Games in Aspen, it reached 2004 and 2006 gold, and silver in 2003 and 2005. To this end, she won three times the Saab Salomon Crossmax Rating Series, five individual races in the series, in 2002 and 2003 when Cham Jam Freestyle Snow Sports Festival in Chamonix and the 2003 U.S. Freeskiing Open in Vail.
Huttary won four World Cup races and was the 2004/ 05 Third and 2005/ 06 second in the freestyle skiing Appreciation as well as in two seasons in two of the ski cross discipline standings. She celebrated her biggest success in the freestyle skiing world championships in 2005 in Ruka, where the ski cross discipline was held for the first time. Huttary won the gold medal with wins in all heats.
In December 2006, she crashed while training in the U.S. hard and broke three vertebrae. She had to pause the entire 2006/07 season. The following season, she managed a successful comeback and finished the World Cup on Kreischberg second place. In the X Games 2008 in Aspen, she came in the semifinals after a jump heavy crash and suffered a broken pelvis.
Upon her return to the World Cup Huttary reached four podium finishes in the 2008 /09 season. In the freestyle skiing World Cup 2009 in Japan Inawashiro she won the silver medal. In the final training session for the World Cup Finals in La Plagne, she moved to a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and was sidelined six months. In their comeback season, she was already in the fourth race again as third on the podium. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010, they came up against in the final, but then committed immediately after the start of a serious error and was ultimately Fourth. On 12 March 2010 she suffered at the World Cup in Grindelwald again a torn ACL, which she announced her resignation two weeks later.
Successes freestyle skiing
Olympic games
- 2010 Vancouver: 4 ski cross
World Championships
- 2005 Ruka: 1 ski cross
- 2009 Inawashiro: 2 ski cross
World Cup ratings
- Season 2002/ 03: 10th overall, 4th ski cross World Cup
- Season 2003/ 04: 17th overall, 7th ski cross World Cup
- Season 2004/ 05: 3rd overall, 2nd Ski Cross World Cup
- Season 2005/ 06: 2nd overall, 2nd Ski Cross World Cup
- Season 2007/ 08: 40th overall, 11 ski cross World Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 13th overall, 4th ski cross World Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 13th overall, 4th ski cross World Cup
- Season 2009/ 10: 27th overall, 9th ski cross World Cup
World Cup wins
X Games
- 2003 Aspen: 2 Skier X
- 2004 Aspen: 1 Skier X
- 2005 Aspen: 2 Skier X
- 2006 Aspen: 1 Skier X
- 2009 Aspen: 5 Skier X
Other successes
- Ski Cross European champion in Westendorf 2002
- 3x overall winner of the Saab Salomon Crossmax Series 2003, 2004 and 2006
- 2x winner of the Cham Jam Freestyle Snow Sports Festival in Chamonix in 2002 and 2003
- Victory at the U.S. Freeskiing Open in Vail 2003
- 2- times Austrian champion in ski cross in 2004 and 2006