Matthias Lanzinger
Matthias Lanzinger ( born December 9, 1980 in Abtenau, Salzburg) is an Austrian alpine skier. He was Junior World Champion and two-time Austrian champion, won in the season 2003/2004 the overall standings of the European Cup and reached the podium in the World Cup before a bad fall in March 2008, who had an amputation of the left leg result, his athletic career interrupted. Since the winter of 2011/2012 Lanzinger takes part in races in disabled skiing.
- 2.1 Alpine Skiing
- 2.2 Disabled Skiing
Career
Matthias Lanzinger was at the age of three, for the first time on skis and drove the age of five at the local ski club Abtenau his first children's race. After the elementary and secondary school moved Lanzinger, who had been captured with 13 years in the national squad of the Salzburg Ski Federation, to the Skigymnasium in Stams, which he completed in 2000 with the Matura. After that he was stationed as a regular soldier four years in the Army Sports Centre Rif in Hallein. From the 1995/1996 season Lanzinger participated in FIS races and national (youth) championships. In March 1997, he won his age group in the Austrian Youth Championships in slalom. In the same year he was included in the squad of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ). From the winter 1997/1998 followed by initial sporadic releases in Europe and Nor- Am Cup, for the time being but he was still mostly in FIS races in use, in which he celebrated the first victory in December 1999 after a few podiums.
In February 2000 Lanzinger was World Junior Champion in the combination and Vice World Champion in slalom, to which he belonged from the next winter, the Austrian Ski European Cup group. In the years 2001 and 2002 he won the Austrian championship in the combination. In the 2001/2002 season Lanzinger found with several podium finishes in the European connection to the top. His first European Cup victory he celebrated on 17 December 2003 in the downhill at Passo Tonale. With another victory in the Super -G of Les Orres and twelve top 10 results Lanzinger won in the 2003/2004 season the overall standings of the European Cup. In addition, he came fourth in the downhill and giant slalom rating and second in the super-G standings, thus having a Fixstartplatz in the World Cup was awarded in this discipline and finally came on 28 November 2004 on his World Cup debut in the Super G in Lake Louise. He finished the race in good twelfth place, which remained his best World Cup result this season. A year later, on 1 December 2005, Lanzinger reached with the surprising third place in the Super G in Beaver Creek his only podium finish in the World Cup. The 2005/2006 season he finished in 14th position in the super- G World Cup. The breakthrough in the absolute world top but he did not succeed. After his podium Lanzinger drove Although in many World Cup races into the top 20, but in the top 10, he managed only two more times, with a ninth place in the Super G in Lenzerheide at the end of the season 2006/2007 and a tenth place in the giant slalom Sölden at the beginning of the season 2007/2008. In addition to the World Cup started Lanzinger continue in the European Cup, scoring several podiums and victories. In the season 2006/2007 he was second in the giant slalom standings and third in the overall standings of the European Cup.
Accident and other career
On 2 March 2008, Lanzinger suffered a multiple open lower leg fracture with severe vascular injuries in the Super - G World Cup race in Kvitfjell. The removal (initially to Lillehammer, then the Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo) took six hours. During subsequent operation, there were complications only after the third vessel revision circulation is restored, however, was not stabilized. Due to serious vascular injuries and the resulting hypoxia and at times non-intact blood circulation in the lower left leg had to be amputated this on 4 March 2008 below the knee.
The Austrians criticized during the race, no ambulance helicopter had been available, so only one seat from a "tourist " helicopters had to be removed for transport. This was lost valuable time. Lanzinger sued the FIS for damages and loss of earnings, as the German expert Bernd Meier plug has found that both a fault of the organization as well as a treatment failure in Oslo have the amputation made necessary. In September 2010 Lanzinger was awarded by the Norwegian health authority the right to damages for " failure in the provision of assistance".
In October 2008 Lanzinger began studying business administration, and the Sport and Event Management at Private University Seeburg Castle. He also began to work as a marketing employee at the ski company Salomon. From the winter 2008/2009, he was seen on Sunday of the ORF also a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and worked as an expert on the TV show Sports. It was in 2008 with the Skieur d' Or ( Serge Lang Trophy ) and awarded the Special Award in the choice of Austria's sportsman of the year. In July 2010, he married his longtime girlfriend.
Disabled Sports
In October 2011 Lanzinger announced in the future to compete in competitions in alpine sports for the disabled. His goal is to participate in the Paralympic Games 2014 in Sochi. Lanzinger starts in the class of the standing men and peaked at his race debut on 17 November 2011 at the ipcas Hall of Landgraaf Slalom went straight to third place ( ipcas = International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing ). On 17 December 2011, he celebrated the giant slalom in Kühtai his first victory in the European Cup. Later in the season 2011/2012 he was a three time Austrian champion in slalom, giant slalom and super combined. On 8 January 2013 Lanzinger first participated in a World Cup race as disabled skiers. This giant slalom in Sestriere, he took second place. In the second giant slalom the next day he celebrated his first World Cup victory.
On March 9, 2014 Lanzinger won second place in the Super- G at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi in 2014 his first Paralympic medal. Also in the super combined, he won the silver medal.
Achievements
Alpine Skiing
- Quebec 2000: 1 combination, 2 slalom, downhill 8, 9 Giant Slalom
- 2003/2004 season: 1 Rating, 2 Super-G standings, 4th exit rating, 4 giant slalom rating
- Season 2004/2005: 4 Super -G standings
- Season 2006/2007: 3rd overall, 2nd Giant Slalom rating
- 16 podium finishes, including 4 victories:
- Two-time Austrian champion in the combined (2001 and 2002)
- Military and police world champion in giant slalom in 2006
- 7 wins in FIS races (5x Giant Slalom, Slalom 2x )
Disabled skiing
Awards
- 2008: Special Award in the choice of Austria's sportsman of the year
- 2008 Winner of the Skieur d' Or - Serge Lang Trophy
- 2013 Austria Disabled Athlete of the Year