Vincent Kriechmayr Explained

Vincent Kriechmayr
Disciplines:Super-G, Downhill, Combined
Club:TVN WelsOberoesterreich
Birth Date:1 October 1991
Birth Place:Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
Height:1.86 m
Wcdebut:12 December 2010 (age 19)
Olympicteams:2 – (2018, 2022)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:4 – (20172023)
Worldsmedals:4
Worldsgolds:2
Wcseasons:13 – (20112023)
Wcwins:18 – (9 DH, 9 SG)
Wcpodiums:35 – (15 DH, 20 SG)
Wcoveralls:0 – (5th in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Wctitles:1 – (SG in 2021)
Show-Medals:yes

Vincent Kriechmayr (born 1 October 1991) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of super-G and downhill.

Kriechmayr is the 2021 world champion in both speed events, super-G and downhill.

Career

Born in Linz, Upper Austria, Kriechmayr made his World Cup debut in December 2010 at age nineteen. He achieved his first World Cup podium in March 2015, a runner-up finish in super-G at Kvitfjell, Norway. He achieved his first World Cup victory in a super-G in December 2017 at Beaver Creek, Colorado.[1] His fourth World Cup victory came in the classic downhill at Wengen in 2019.[2]

At the World Championships in 2021 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Kriechmayr won both the super-G and the downhill, becoming the third male to take the speed double at the Worlds, after Hermann Maier in 1999 and Bode Miller in 2005.[3] He won the super-G season title in 2021, 83 points ahead of runner-up Marco Odermatt; the super-G at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide was cancelled due to fog.[4] In October 2021 Kriechmayr was named Austrian sportsman of the year for 2021.[5]

World Cup results

Season titles

Season standings

Season
AgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
2259 23 18
2324 48 6 21 12
2414 58 4 18 10
25141417
2625
2755239
282610
202129rowspan=4
30536
3155832
32624

Race podiums

Season
DateLocationDisciplineRank
2015 8 March 2015 Kvitfjell, Norway 2nd
7 February 2016 Super-G 3rd
Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G 2nd
2018 1 December 2017 Beaver Creek, USA Super-G 1st
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2nd
14 March 2018 align=left rowspan=2 Åre, Sweden Downhill 1st
15 March 2018 Super-G 1st
2019 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G 2nd
19 January 2019    Wengen, Switzerland Downhill 1st
13 March 2019 Soldeu, Andorra Super-G 3rd
2020 1 December 2019 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G 3rd
7 December 2019 Beaver Creek, USA Downhill 2nd
20 December 2019 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 1st
25 January 2020 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill 2nd
29 February 2020 Hinterstoder, Austria Super-G 1st
2021 29 December 2020 Bormio, Italy Super-G 2nd
30 December 2020 Downhill 2nd
25 January 2021 Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G 1st
6 February 2021 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 1st
6 March 2021 Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria Downhill 1st
7 March 2021 Super-G 3rd
2022 27 November 2021 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill2nd
17 December 2021 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 3rd
29 December 2021 Bormio, Italy Super-G 3rd
15 January 2022    Wengen, Switzerland Downhill 1st
16 March 2022 Courchevel, France Downhill 1st
17 March 2022 Super-G 1st
2023 15 December 2022 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 1st
28 December 2022align=left rowspan=2 Bormio, Italy Downhill 1st
29 December 2022Super-G 2nd
20 January 2023 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill 1st
15 March 2023 Soldeu, Andorra Downhill 1st
2024 15 December 2023 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G1st
17 February 2024 align=left rowspan=2 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"18 February 2024 Super-G 1st

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
25 8
27 17
29 DNF2
31 DNS2

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
26 DNF2
20223058

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Alpine skiing: Kriechmayr wins Super-G for first World Cup victory. 1 December 2017. 13 February 2018. Reuters.
  2. News: Vincent Kriechmayr wins downhill, American Bryce Bennett finishes fifth . ESPN . Associated Press . 19 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Vincent Kriechmayr wins men's downhill gold by smallest margin ever . . 14 February 2021 . . 7 November 2021.
  4. Web site: Kriechmayr clinches super-G title after racing cancelled at Alpine World Cup finals . Morgan . Liam . 18 March 2021 . . 7 November 2021.
  5. Web site: Anna Kiesenhofer named Austrian sportswoman of year . Price . Matilda . 28 October 2021 . . 7 November 2021.