Ondřej Bank

Ondřej Bank ( born October 27, 1980 in Zábřeh na Moravě ) is a Czech skier. His greatest successes he celebrates in the combination. In this discipline so far achieved a third place in the World Cup and each sixth place at the 2001 World Championships and at the Olympic Winter Games 2006.

Biography

Bank began his international career in December 1995 when he took part as a 15- year-old at first FIS races. In February 1996 he drove for the first time on the podium and in January 1999 he celebrated his first victory in a FIS race. From 1998 to 2000 he also took part in the Junior World Championships, but it reached its best result only the 29th place in the slalom in 1999.

On 9 January 2001 Bank denied his first World Cup race, the giant slalom in Adelboden, but in which he could not qualify for the second run to. A month later he came as a complete surprise to sixth place in the combination at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg. He also finished 26th in the giant slalom. Shortly thereafter, the Czech played his first European Cup races and in March he was Czech Champion in slalom. By 2006, followed in the slalom and giant slalom three other Czech title. In the season 2001/ 02 brought with Bank rank 25 in the slalom in Val Thorens his first European Cup points in his only World Cup competition this winter in the slalom in Kranjska Gora, but he did not made ​​it to the second round. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Bank fell out in the second round of the combined slalom and also in special slalom and giant slalom, he did not finish. Its only result was the 39th place in the downhill. In the season 2002/ 03 the Czech stayed with his three World Cup inserts on without result. In the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, he reached the 16th place in the combination, as well as rank 37 in the downhill and rank 41 in the Super-G.

On January 11, 2004 with Bank won 14th place in the combination of Chamonix his first World Cup points and three weeks later he drove in the combination of Kitzbühel in eleventh place. In the winter of 2004/ 05 was his only World Cup result of 17th in the giant slalom in Alta Badia, in the 2005 World Championship in Bormio, he was 16th in the combination, 24th in the giant slalom and 26th in the super -G. In the season 2005/ 06 Bank was able to score in all three World Cup super- combinations. He was 20th in Val d'Isere, 21 in Wengen and 19 in Chamonix. That the combination is his strongest discipline, the Czech was also demonstrated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Here he reached, as with the 2001 World Championships, the sixth in the combination and thus the best placement of a Czech Skirennläufers at the Olympic Games since Peter Jurkos fifth Combination Square in Calgary in 1988. On 30 November 2006 reached bank in the super combination of Beaver Creek in the World Cup one sixth. In December 2006, followed by a 25th place in the Super Combined at the Reiteralm and in January 2007, the eleventh place in the slalom in Adelboden. He also came in March in the slalom of Madesimo / Campodolcino for the first time in a European Cup race in the top three. At the 2007 World Championships he reached number ten in the Super Combined and 17th in the giant slalom and 35th in the downhill and 36th in super -G. In addition, he finished with his team-mates to ninth place in the team competition.

His best result so far in the World Cup scored Bank on 29 November 2007 in the super combination of Beaver Creek, when he finished third behind the Swiss Daniel Albrecht and Frenchman Jean -Baptiste Grange. Thus he became the first Czechs for over 25 years, a podium finish in the World Cup. The hitherto past Ivan Pacák had achieved on 24 January 1982 in the combination of Wengen with second place. On January 15, 2008, bank came in the first downhill training on the Streif in Kitzbühel heavy crash and retired while a double leg fracture to. He had the season prematurely and could even in winter 2008/ 09 deny any race.

In the 2009/10 season, bank could re-establish itself in the vicinity of the world's best. His best World Cup result this winter was the seventh place in the Super Combined in Wengen. The same ranking he reached at the Olympic Winter Games 2010, also in the super combined. At the end of the season he was Czech champion in all four disciplines. In the season 2010/11, Bank further increased. He drove in five World Cup races ( three super - combinations and each one slalom and giant slalom) among the ten fastest and reached its best result in fifth in the giant slalom in Alta Badia. He finished 26th in the overall World Cup - before, he had never been in the top 50 - and 14 in the giant slalom and seventh in combined World Cup. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he finished fifth in the super combined and thus his best ever World Cup result.

Due to a severe viral disease bank could not train throughout the summer of 2011. So he remained in the World Cup Winter 2011/12 without first countable income until the season for him in mid-January was prematurely ended because of a herniated disc. After five months of rehabilitation he suffered in September 2012 in a pub in Chile a fracture of the jaw, which he had to interrupt the snow training for four weeks. In late November 2012, Bank injured during the second training for the World Cup downhill in Beaver Creek on the shoulder, after which he was sidelined for several weeks again.

In the giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ondrej Bank was after the first passage sensational second place, but had to finally settle for fifth place. The super combined ended the Czech seventh, Super-G and Downhill, he finished the ranks of nine and 20

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Salt Lake City 2002: 39 Departure
  • Turin 2006: 6 combined, 16 giant slalom
  • Vancouver 2010: 7 Super Combined, Slalom 11, 17, Giant Slalom, Downhill 30
  • Sochi 2014: 5 Giant Slalom, Super Combined 7, 9, Super -G, downhill 20

World Championships

  • St. Anton 2001: 6 combination, 26 Giant Slalom
  • St. Moritz 2003: 16 combination, 37 downhill, super-G 41
  • Bormio 2005: 16 combination, 24, Giant Slalom, Super -G 26
  • Åre 2007: 10 Super Combined, Giant Slalom 17, 35 downhill, 36 Super G, 9 team competition
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 5 Super Combined 17 Super -G, Giant Slalom 19 21 Departure
  • Schladming 2013: 11 Super Combined Downhill 27

Junior World Championships

  • Megève 1998: 31 Slalom, 49 departure
  • Pra Loup 1999: 29 Slalom, Super-G, 36th, 60th departure
  • Quebec 2000: 36 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 49th, 49th departure

World Cup

  • 8 placings in the top ten, including one podium

Czech Championships

  • Slalom: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010
  • Giant Slalom: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011
  • Super -G: 2010
  • Super Combination: 2010, 2011

Other successes

Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships Municipality of Kranjska Gora FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics Beaver Creek Resort FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 Jean-Baptiste Grange 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013
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