Otmar Striedinger

Otmar Striedingers ( born April 14, 1991 Villach) is an Austrian alpine skier. He belongs in the 2012/2013 season on the B - squad of the Austrian Ski and achieved his best results in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super -G.

Biography

A native of Nöring Carinthian Otmar Striedingers attended elementary school in Gmünd and the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium in Spittal an der Drau, where he graduated in 2010. Initial success in skiing celebrated Striedingers in children's and student race: He scored in February 2004 at the international children's race Trofeo Topolino in his age group ranked third in the slalom and giant slalom and finished 2006 with the Austrian school championships in the age group pupils II took second place in the giant slalom. In the same year he had to go to a multiple lower leg fracture, however, a longer time to pause.

Since March 2007 Striedingers starts at FIS races as well as the Austrian Championships and Junior Championships, in December 2008, followed by the first missions in the European Cup. At the beginning of 2009 Striedingers achieved his first podium finishes in FIS races, whereupon he ascended in the junior squad in the B-team of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ) after one year. Since the 2009/2010 season, he is regularly used in the European Cup, first top-10 results in this series, he scored in winter 2010 /2011. At the Junior World Championships 2011 in Crans -Montana Striedingers won the bronze medal in the downhill, super-G, however, different from. For the Austrian Junior Championships the same year he was second in the downhill II behind Vincent Kriechmayr in his age group youth. After two years in B- squad, he rose in 2011 in the Austrian Ski -A- squad on.

His debut in the World Cup was Striedingers on 28 November 2010 at the Super - G in Lake Louise, which he finished on the 38th place. Even with his next World Cup starts over the next two years, he remained without points. On 2 February 2012, he scored his first podium with third place in the European Cup Super-G of Santa Caterina. In the spring of 2012, he was back from the A- back to the B-team of the Austrian Ski Federation. On December 29, 2012 Striedingers won his ninth World Cup race for the first time World Cup points, as he drove in the downhill on the Pista Stelvio in Bormio at number 25. On December 7, 2013, took the second place in the Super G in Beaver Creek for the first time in a World Cup race on the podium. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 he drove in the Super- G at the fifth place and missed the bronze medal by two hundredths of seconds.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 5 Super G, Super Combined 21

World Cup

  • Season 2013/14: 7 Super - G World Cup
  • 3 places in the top ten, including one podium

European Cup

  • Season 2011/12: 4 Super -G standings
  • Season 2012/13: 7 Super -G standings
  • 1 podium

Junior World Championships

  • Crans -Montana 2011: 3rd exit

Other successes

  • 3 wins in FIS races
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