Marcel Hirscher

Marcel Hirscher
 Alpine skier 

Hirscher in October 2013
Disciplines Slalom, Giant slalom,
Super-G
Club Skiklub Annaberg
Born (1989-03-02) 2 March 1989
Annaberg-Lungötz,
Salzburg, Austria
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
World Cup debut 17 March 2007 (age 18)
Website marcelhirscher.at
Olympics
Teams 2 – (2010, 2014)
Medals 1 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams 3 – (2009, 2013, 2015)
Medals 6 (4 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 9th – (200816)
Wins 39
Podiums 91
Overall titles 5 – (20122016)
Discipline titles 6 – (3 GS, 3 SL)

Marcel Hirscher (born 2 March 1989)[1] is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Annaberg-Lungötz, Salzburg, Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007.

Career

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Hirscher placed fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom at Whistler Creekside. He placed fourth in the giant slalom at the 2009 World Championships, but broke his ankle the weekend preceding the 2011 World Championships, which ended his 2011 season.[2]

Returning after injury, Hirscher had his best season to date in terms of wins in 2012 with 9 victories and a total of 14 podiums, all in the two technical events (except for one third place in the season's last Super G). He won the World Cup overall and giant slalom titles, and placed third in the slalom.[3]

In October 2012, Hirscher was awarded the Skieur d'Or Award[4] by members of the International Association of Ski Journalists for his performances during the previous season.

Hirscher won the overall World Cup title again in 2013 with 6 victories; he also won the slalom title and was runner-up in giant slalom.[5] Hirscher scored a total of 18 podium finishes out of 19 races in the two technical events. The only race in either slalom or giant slalom where he finished outside top 3 was the giant slalom in Adelboden. In that particular race Hirscher was leading after the first run, built up his advantage to over a second in the second run, but nearly fell several gates before the final, thus missing the win and finished only 16th. He became the first male racer to retain the overall World Cup title since fellow Austrian Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003[6] and the first to win it three years in a row since American Phil Mahre did so in 1981, 1982 and 1983.

In 2015 Hirscher dominated the giant slalom standings with 5 wins, including a winning margin of 3.28 seconds in Garmisch,[7] and won the GS title for the second time. With his slalom win in Zagreb[8] he became the most successful Austrian male World Cup slalom skier surpassing Benjamin Raich. In the final race of the season in Meribel he overturned a 55-point deficit in the standings by winning his 16th World Cup slalom, and with it won the slalom title for the third year in a row.[9] Hirscher became the first male alpine skier to win the overall World Cup title four times in a row.

In 2016 Hirscher became the most successful Austrian male World Cup GS skier by winning in Beaver Creek, Colorado, surpassing Benjamin Raich and Hermann Maier. With his GS win in Alta Badia, Italy (his 3rd consecutive win at that venue), he became Austria's most successful World Cup GS skier overtaking Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Another GS win in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia confirmed Hirscher as the GS title winner with one race to go. To wrap up an amazing season with 8 wins and 19 podiums Hirscher also won the men's overall World Cup title, his 5th consecutive overall title, a feat never before achieved by a male skier. His points total also enabled Austria to narrowly beat France in the men's nations cup by 201 points, the narrowest winning margin for many years. Hirscher was the only Austrian male skier to win a race in the entire season, and scored 30.9% (1795 out of 5804) of the Austrian men's nations cup points.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
2012 Overall
Giant slalom
2013 Overall
Slalom
2014 Overall
Slalom
2015 Overall
Giant slalom
Slalom
2016 Overall
Giant slalom

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
2007 17 153   47    
2008 18 51 15 60    
2009 19 14 9 14 52   10
2010 20 6 8 6 34   12
2011 21 15 5 10    
2012 22 1 3 1 27   
2013 23 1 1 2    
2014 24 1 1 2 31   8
2015 25 1 1 1 24   6
2016 26 1 2 1 6   

Race victories

Hirscher in February 2011
Season Date Location Discipline
2010 13 Dec 2009 France Val d'Isère, France Giant slalom
30 Jan 2010Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom
2011 12 Dec 2010 France Val d'Isère, France Slalom
2012 4 Dec 2011 United States Beaver Creek, USA Giant slalom
19 Dec 2011 Italy Alta Badia, Italy Slalom
5 Jan 2012 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Slalom
7 Jan 2012  Switzerland  Adelboden, Switzerland Giant slalom
8 Jan 2012 Slalom
24 Jan 2012 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom
18 Feb 2012 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria Giant slalom
19 Feb 2012 Slalom
17 Mar 2012 Austria Schladming, Austria Giant slalom
2013 9 Dec 2012 France Val d'Isère, France Giant slalom
18 Dec 2012 Italy Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Slalom
6 Jan 2013 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Slalom
13 Jan 2013  Switzerland  Adelboden, Switzerland Slalom
27 Jan 2013 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Slalom
29 Jan 2013 Russia Moscow, Russia Parallel slalom
2014 17 Nov 2013 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom
14 Dec 2013 France Val d'Isère, France Giant slalom
22 Dec 2013 Italy Alta Badia, Italy Giant slalom
12 Jan 2014  Switzerland  Adelboden, Switzerland Slalom
16 Mar 2014  Switzerland  Lenzerheide, Switzerland Slalom
2015 26 Oct 2014 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant slalom
12 Dec 2014 Sweden Åre, Sweden Giant slalom
14 Dec 2014 Slalom
21 Dec 2014 Italy Alta Badia, Italy Giant slalom
6 Jan 2015 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Slalom
10 Jan 2015  Switzerland  Adelboden, Switzerland Giant slalom
1 Mar 2015 Germany Garmisch, Germany Giant slalom
22 Mar 2015 France Meribel, France Slalom
2016 5 Dec 2015 United States Beaver Creek, USA Super-G
6 Dec 2015 Giant slalom
12 Dec 2015 France Val d'Isère, France Giant slalom
20 Dec 2015 Italy Alta Badia, Italy Giant slalom
6 Jan 2016 Italy Santa Caterina, Italy Slalom
23 Feb 2016 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Parallel slalom
5 Mar 2016Slovenia Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom
6 Mar 2016 Slalom

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super G Downhill Combined Team Event
2009 19 DSQ1 4 DNF2
2011 21 injured: did not compete
2013 23 1 2 1
2015 25 DNF2 2 1 1

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super G Downhill Combined
2010 20 5 4
2014 24 2 4

References

  1. "FIS profile". Fis-ski.com. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. uk.eurosport.yahoo.com – Hirscher wins Beaver Creek giant slalom – 4 December 2011
  3. "Marcel Hirscher wins overall title". ESPN. Associated Press. 17 March 2012. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  4. "Skieur d'Or Award". Snow Kings. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  5. Manuele Lang (14 March 2013). "Alpine skiing: Hirscher assured of overall World Cup". Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010.
  6. "Alpine Skiing". Fis-Ski. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  7. "The Hirscher show at Garmisch GS". Ski Racing.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 22 Mar 2015.
  8. "Hirscher makes it a hat trick in Zagreb". Ski Racing.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 22 Mar 2015.
  9. "Hirscher skis for win, globe over Neureuther in Meribel". Ski Racing.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 22 Mar 2015.

External links

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Awards
Preceded by
Thomas Morgenstern
David Alaba
Austrian Sportsman of the year
2012
2015
Succeeded by
David Alaba
Incumbent


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