Linus Straßer
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Munich, Germany[1] | 6 November 1992
Occupation | Alpine skier |
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Skiing career | |
Disciplines | Slalom, Parallel slalom |
Club | TSV 1860 München |
World Cup debut | 27 October 2013 (age 20) |
Olympics | |
Teams | 2 – (2018, 2022) |
Medals | 1 (0 gold) |
World Championships | |
Teams | 5 – (2015–23) |
Medals | 1 (0 gold) |
World Cup | |
Seasons | 10 – (2014–2023) |
Wins | 5 – (4 SL, 1 PSL) |
Podiums | 14 – (11 SL, 3 PSL) |
Overall titles | 0 – (18th in 2021) |
Discipline titles | 0 – (2nd in SL, 2024) |
Medal record |
Linus Straßer (born 6 November 1992) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer specializing in slalom. He won a team silver medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[2]
His first qualification for a World Cup second run came in a giant slalom at Beaver Creek in December 2014, but he failed to finish. Straßer has competed in five World Championships; in his first in 2015 at Beaver Creek, he was in tenth in the slalom. His first World Cup podium was a victory in a parallel slalom race in Stockholm in January 2017.
World cup results
[edit]Season standings
[edit]Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel |
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2015 | 22 | 64 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — |
2016 | 23 | 114 | 36 | — | — | — | — | |
2017 | 24 | 40 | 14 | — | — | — | — | |
2018 | 25 | 36 | 13 | 51 | — | — | — | |
2019 | 26 | 107 | 48 | — | — | — | 17 | |
2020 | 27 | 43 | 12 | — | — | — | — | 12 |
2021 | 28 | 18 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 29 |
2022 | 29 | 21 | 5 | — | — | — | 12 | |
2023 | 30 | 25 | 7 | — | — | — | — | |
2024 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 53 | — | — |
- Standings through 17 March 2024
Race podiums
[edit]Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
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2017 | 31 January 2017 | Stockholm, Sweden | Parallel slalom | 1st |
2018 | 1 January 2018 | Oslo, Norway | Parallel slalom | 3rd |
30 January 2018 | Stockholm, Sweden | Parallel slalom | 3rd | |
2021 | 6 January 2021 | Zagreb, Croatia | Slalom | 1st |
10 January 2021 | Adelboden, Switzerland | Slalom | 2nd | |
2022 | 9 January 2022 | Slalom | 3rd | |
25 January 2022 | Schladming, Austria | Slalom | 1st | |
27 February 2022 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany | Slalom | 3rd | |
2023 | 22 December 2022 | Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | Slalom | 3rd |
8 January 2023 | Adelboden, Switzerland | Slalom | 3rd | |
2024 | 21 January 2024 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Slalom | 1st |
24 January 2024 | Schladming, Austria | Slalom | 1st | |
25 February 2024 | Palisades Tahoe, USA | Slalom | 3rd | |
3 March 2024 | Aspen, USA | Slalom | 2nd |
World Championships results
[edit]Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team event |
Parallel |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 22 | 10 | DNS2 | — | — | — | — | — |
2017 | 24 | 20 | 12 | — | — | — | ||
2019 | 26 | 28 | — | — | 37 | 5 | — | |
2021 | 28 | 15 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 7 |
2023 | 30 | 9 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 14 |
Olympic results
[edit]Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team event |
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2018 | 25 | DNF1 | 22 | — | — | DNF2 | 5 |
2022 | 29 | 7 | DNF1 | — | — | — | 2 |
References
[edit]- ^ Profile at German Customs Authority website
- ^ fis-ski.com (Access: 8 January 2017).
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Linus Straßer.
- Linus Straßer at FIS (alpine)
- Linus Straßer at Olympics.com
- Linus Straßer at Olympedia
- Linus Straßer at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
- Linus Straßer at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
Categories:
- 1992 births
- German male alpine skiers
- Living people
- Skiers from Munich
- TSV 1860 Munich
- Olympic alpine skiers for Germany
- Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- 21st-century German sportsmen
- German alpine skiing biography stubs