Hannes Trinkl
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's alpine skiing | ||
Representing  Austria
| ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 |
1998 Nagano | Downhill |
| World Championships | ||
 |
2001 St. Anton | Downhill |
Hannes Trinkl (born 1 February 1968 in Steyr) is an Austrian former alpine skier.
Trinkl was the bronze medallist in the downhill in the 1998 Winter Olympics, finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Jürg Grünenfelder.
His first World Cup victory was a Super-G in Lech in December 1993, where he won with a bib number of 51, after weather conditions improved after the early starters had completed their runs.[1] This is the highest start number for a male Super-G winner until now.
Trinkl retired from competition in 2004. He subsequently served as race director for Alpine Skiing World Cup competitions in his hometown of Hinterstoder and vice president of the Austrian Ski Federation before being appointed as race director for men's speed events on the World Cup from the 2014–15 season.:[2] As a race director of the International Ski Federation, abbreviated by its French initials, FIS, he also is the course setter for male downhill races in the World Cup, in the World Championships and in the Olympic Winter Games. In the Super-G he will support the course setter who is one of any other nation (but such a course setter is to determine by the FIS early enough; that will happen in regard to all matters of course settings, therefore also for slaloms and giant slaloms, male or female).[clarification needed]
World Cup victories
[edit]| Date | Location | Race |
|---|---|---|
| December 22, 1993 | Lech |
Super-G |
| December 29, 1993 |  Bormio |
Downhill |
| March 4, 1994 |  Aspen |
Downhill |
| December 4, 1999 |  Lake Louise |
Downhill |
| March 15, 2000 | Bormio |
Downhill |
| March 2, 2002 |  Kvitfjell |
Downhill |
References
[edit]- ^ "Slovenian wins Super-G in her maiden race". China Daily. 24 December 1993. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ "Trinkl ab 2014 FIS-Renndirektor" [Trinkl FIS Race Director from 2014]. Kurier (in German). 18 September 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
External links
[edit]- Hannes Trinkl at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Hannes Trinkl at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- 1968 births
- Austrian male alpine skiers
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
- Olympic alpine skiers for Austria
- Sportspeople from Steyr
- 20th-century Austrian sportsmen