Leyti Seck

Leyti Alexander Seck ( born February 21, 1981 in Munich, Germany ) is a former alpine skier from Senegal, who lives in Austria. He participated in three World Cups and two Olympic Games and contested several races in the World Cup. He is also a former football player and football coach.

Biography

Leyti Seck was born in Munich, the son of a German mother and a Senegalese father. He already came as a baby to a foster family after Strobl am Wolfgangsee in Austria and grew up just there. Seck is Austro- Senegalese dual nationality and was at the age of seven years for the first time on skis. Seck took first time in 2002 to participate in FIS races after he had been taken by the president and founder of the Senegalese Ski Federation, Lamine Guèye, into the dressing. In 2003 he competed at the World Championships in St. Moritz, where he was 55th in the giant slalom and the slalom 61. In the next few years Seck took part in these two disciplines at several World Cup races in Austria. He made his debut on 23 October 2003 in the giant slalom in Soelden, the ninth and last time he was on 28 January 2007 in the slalom in Kitzbuehel in the World Cup at the start. If he came in race to the finish - which he succeeded five times - he was always to be found only among the last three, so every time he clearly failed to qualify for the second round of the top 30.

In February 2005, Seck took part in Bormio for the second time in a World Championship. This time, he was 54th in the giant slalom, but different in the first slalom passage out. Followed in 2006 in Turin, the first participation in the Olympic Winter Games. He was the only active in his country, was 55th in the Super G and was eliminated in the slalom and giant slalom respectively in the first round of. Seck was at that time the former Austrian skier Roland Assinger, a colleague in the study of sports science at the University of Salzburg, trained. Participation Secks at the 2007 World Championships in Åre was also planned, but due to the short-term decision by the International Ski Federation to stage near the Giant Slalom, for this was provided for some time, even in the slalom a qualifying race the day before the actual championship race, pulled Lamine Guèye, president of the Senegalese Ski Federation, Seck back at his request from the start. At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere Seck was back at the start. He only took part in the slalom, but different in the first run of the qualifying race from. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 - his last competitions in alpine skiing - retired Seck also made in the slalom. In the giant slalom, he finished with 81 runners evaluated the 73rd place.

As a football player Seck is active at SK Strobl in the second division North. From the beginning of the 2010/2011 season until the end of the fall 2011 season he was coach of the women's soccer team of USK Hof in the OFB - Women's League, a gaming community with FC Bergheim entered 2011.

Statistics

Olympic Winter Games

  • Turin 2006: 55 Super -G excreted in Slalom and Giant Slalom
  • Vancouver 2010: 73 Giant Slalom, Slalom excreted in

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003 55 Slalom, Giant Slalom 61
  • Bormio 2005: 54 Giant Slalom, Slalom excreted in
  • Val d'Isere 2009: excreted in the slalom qualification
Winter Olympic Games FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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