Nicole Hosp

Nicole Hosp ( born November 6, 1983 in Ehenbichl, Tyrol) is an Austrian alpine skier. She was initially specializes in slalom and giant slalom at the World Cup and starts in all disciplines since 2006. Besides the descent she has been able to win at least one World Cup races in each discipline. In the season 2006/2007 Hosp decided the World Cup itself, also in 2007 she became world champion in giant slalom.

  • 2.1 Olympic Winter Games
  • 2.2 World Championships
  • 2.3 Junior World Championships
  • 2.4 World Cup ratings ( top 10 )
  • 2.5 World Cup wins
  • 2.6 European Cup
  • 2.7 Further successes

Biography

Beginnings and initial success (until 2002)

Hosp grew in close proximity to to slopes and ski school and came so early to skiing. Through her ​​parents, she got a personal trainer already was eight years old. Soon successes at youth level one, including the Austrian student champion title ( age class pupils II) in the Super- G in 1998. Hosp visited the Skigymnasium in Stams and took from January 1999 participate in FIS races, where they are still in the same month the first podium reached. After their inclusion in the squad of the Austrian Ski Federation followed in winter 2000/2001 the first start in the European Cup. That same season she also took part in a first Junior World Championships, where she went downhill and slalom just below the top ten. Successful it was next winter at the Junior World Championship in 2002 in Tarvisio, where she won the bronze medal in the downhill.

In the same winter 2001/2002 Hosp found in the European Cup in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom connection to the top: First top-10 results from beginning of the season followed by the year several podiums and 11 March 2002, the first victory in the giant slalom in Le Grand -Bornand. Thus they reached each place fourth overall European Cup and in the slalom rating and ranks second in the giant slalom standings, which they received a World Cup Fixstartplatz for next season in this discipline. Already on February 18, 2001 Hosp was started for the first time in the World Cup slalom in Garmisch- Partenkirchen. Here, but she could just as in five of their six World Cup races of the winter 2001/2002 do not qualify for the second round. Only once she won in January 2002 with the 29th place in the giant slalom at Maribor World Cup points.

Following the world-class (2002-2006)

Totally unexpected then you succeeded at the beginning of the 2002/2003 season in the World Cup breakthrough when she won the giant slalom at the Rettenbachferner in Sölden with the fastest time in the second round. Hosp shared this victory with the simultaneous Tina Maze and Andrine Flemmen, so it was the first time in the history of the World Cup three winners in a race. By the end of winter Hosp five more times went to the podium, which she finished fourth in the giant slalom World Cup and each tenth in the overall and slalom World Cup. Podiums reached Hosp even at their first 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, in which she finished second in the combination and third in slalom. In the giant slalom she was after the first run to fourth place, but in the second round she left. In winter 2003/2004 Hosp able to build on last year's results: In addition to several podium finishes in December, she celebrated two victories in slalom at Madonna di Campiglio and in the giant slalom in Lienz. The end of January, however, she had to end after she was bent over while jogging with his foot and suffered an ankle fracture the season.

At the beginning of their comeback season 2004/2005 Hosp suffered some failures, otherwise they could be placed usually in the top ten. A failure she had also been made in the 2005 World Championships in Bormio in the slalom, the giant slalom, she finished in fifth position. A medal there was Hosp but for the first time at a World Cup discharged team competition in which she won second place with their team mates behind Germany. After the World Cup Hosp get in the world cup again three podiums in slalom and giant slalom and a fourth place in the first discharged in the World Cup super-combined. At season's end, it was the first time Austrian champion in giant slalom.

The final step of the Slalom-/Riesenslalomläuferin for all-rounder took Hosp in the 2005/2006 season, in which she also took part in the Super-G and Downhill races starting in January. In her World Cup debut in the speed disciplines in St. Moritz, it reached third place in the Super -G and ninth in the downhill straight away. A week later they celebrated in the giant slalom in Cortina d' Ampezzo her first World Cup victory in more than two years. Another World Cup victory she succeeded at the season finale in Åre, where they decided the Super -G for yourself and thus won for the first time in the speed disciplines. So you reached the fourth place in the overall World Cup and came in all discipline ratings except for the exit in the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin Hosp won behind the Swede Anja Parson the silver medal in the slalom. In the giant slalom, she finished fourth and fifth in the combination.

Overall World Cup and injury lay-offs (2006-2010)

In the season 2006/2007 Hosp achieved four victories and a total of twelve podiums in all disciplines, except for the departure, in a sixth rank their best result was. Two of their four victories celebrated Hosp in the last two races of the winter, the slalom and the giant slalom of the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide. This enabled it to overtake after the third last race with 70 points ahead of Hosp in the overall World Cup leader Marlies Schild and still win the overall World Cup for themselves. Hosp also won the giant slalom World Cup, were each second in slalom and super -G and third in the super- combined World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre Hosp missed initially finished fourth in the super G and sixth in the super combined twice just a medal before they surprisingly won the bronze medal in the downhill and two days later world champion in giant slalom was. The final slalom she finished only 17th position. Due to their success, she was elected in October 2007 the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year.

In winter 2007/2008 Hosp could repeat the previous year's results only in slalom. She celebrated two wins in Aspen and Maribor and drove in three more times this discipline into the top three, which she was second in the slalom World Cup again. In the Giant Slalom and Super -G they drove each once on the podium in this discipline World Cups she fell from the previous year but about six or seven places back. Nevertheless, they reached the overall World Cup in a relatively close decision to the courts two to five second place behind overall winner Lindsey Vonn.

The 2008/2009 season was marked by injuries Hosp. On November 29, 2008, she retired from a fall in the giant slalom in Aspen a sprain in his left knee, but the day after they reached the slalom their first of four podiums of the winter. Worse, it caught her on January 4, 2009 in Zagreb. She came hard when running for the World Cup slalom to fall and retired here a crack of the inner side of the belt, a fracture of the tibial plateau and a partial tear of the cruciate ligament in his left knee. Nevertheless, she was able to walk at the World Championships in Val d'Isere at the start, on 12 February 2009, but had to settle for second place 23 in the giant slalom. After the World Cup but because of the injury followed another three-week break from racing. The next violation sat Hosp throughout winter 2009/2010 out of action: She fell in the season opener on October 24, 2009 in Soelden, pulling a tear to the cruciate ligament of the right knee.

Difficult Comeback ( from 2010)

With the start of the 2010/2011 season Hosp returned to the World Cup. 19 December 2010, it reached third in the super combined in Val d'Isere their first podium after the one-year injury layoff, who also was her only that winter. Overall, they drove in nine races into the top ten in the World Cup, she was 15 at the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen they drove each ranked 12th in super-G and super combined and ranked 18th in the slalom.

The season 2011/2012 was very satisfactory for Hosp. In the first two months it was better than 16th in any race until January you will return the top 10 results, and finally two third places in the two super - combinations of St. Moritz. Overall, the season was, however, significantly worse than the previous year. Hosp dropped to rank 22 in the World Cup back, was next to her third place in the super - combined World Cup only in the super-G to see the top 20 and remained in their once- strongest discipline, the giant slalom, the first time ever not score points.

On February 8, 2013 Hosp crowned her comeback with the bronze medal in the super-combined at their home World Cup in Schladming. A few days later she won the team competition with the Austrian team and was the second time World Champion.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, she won silver in the super-combined behind Maria Hoefl - Riesch and bronze in the Super -G. Thus, she has won in all disciplines at a major event a medal.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Turin 2006: 2nd Slalom, Giant Slalom 4th, 5th combination
  • Sochi 2014: 2 Super Combined, Super G 3, 9 exit

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003: 2 combination, 3rd slalom
  • Santa Caterina 2005: 2nd team competition, 5 Giant Slalom
  • Åre 2007: 1st Giant Slalom, 3rd exit, 4 Super -G, 6 Super Combined, Slalom 17
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 23 Giant Slalom
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 12 Super -G, 12 Super Combined, Slalom 18
  • Schladming 2013: 1st team competition, 3rd Super Combined, Slalom 15

Junior World Championships

  • Verbier 2001: 6 combination, exit 9, 10, slalom, giant slalom 25
  • Tarvisio 2002: 3rd exit, 4th Slalom, Super -G 14

World Cup ratings ( top 10 )

Nicole Hosp has not even won the overall World Cup, to even the score in the giant slalom discipline.

  • Season 2002/2003: 10th overall, 10th slalom, giant slalom 4
  • Season 2003/2004: 6 Slalom, Giant Slalom 6
  • Season 2004/2005: 4 combination, 6 Giant Slalom, Slalom 7
  • Season 2005/2006: 4th overall, 4th Giant Slalom, 5 combination, 6 Slalom, Super -G 10
  • Season 2006/2007: 1st overall, 1st Giant Slalom, 2nd Slalom, Super-G, 2, 3 combination
  • Season 2007/2008: 2nd overall, 2nd Slalom, Giant Slalom 7, 9 combination, 10 Super -G
  • Season 2008/2009: 8 slalom, 8 combination
  • 2010/2011 season: 5 combination, 8 Super -G
  • Season 2011/2012: 3 combination
  • Season 2012/2013: 2 combination

World Cup wins

A total of 54 podium finishes, including 11 victories (1x Super -G, Giant Slalom 5x, 4x Slalom, Super Combined 1x )

European Cup

  • Season 2001/2002: 4th overall, 2nd giant slalom standings, fourth slalom rating
  • 6 podiums, including two victories:

Other successes

  • Austrian Champion in Giant Slalom: 2005, 2008
  • 2 wins in Nor- Am Cup ( giant slalom in Loveland in 2002 and in Winter Park 2005)
  • 6 wins in FIS races (3x Super -G, Giant Slalom 2x, 1x slalom)

Awards

  • Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria: 2003
  • Austrian Sportswoman of the Year: 2007
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