Michaela Kirchgasser

Kirchgasser at Aspen
in November 2006

Michaela Kirchgasser (born 18 March 1985) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Schwarzach im Pongau, Salzburg, she races in all five disciplines and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.

Career 1
World Cup results 2
- Season standings 2.1
- Race podiums 2.2
World Championship results 3
Olympic results 4
References 5
External links 6

Career

On 25 November 2006, Kirchgasser made her first World Cup podium with a third place in the giant slalom at Aspen, Colorado. Her first victory was on 24 February 2007, in a giant slalom at Sierra Nevada, Spain.

She has competed in two Olympics and three World Championships. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she finished fifth in the slalom and sixth in the combined, but failed to finish in the giant slalom. At the 2007 World Championships she won the gold medal with the Austrian team in the team event, and finished fourth in the giant slalom and ninth in the slalom.

Kirchgasser attained her first World Cup podium in slalom on the third day of 2012 at Zagreb, Croatia.^[1] Less than three weeks later, she won her first World Cup slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.^[2] Kirchgasser won again in the slalom at the World Cup finals in Schladming to finish second in the slalom season standings, runner-up to compatriot Marlies Schild.^[3]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2002	16	89	33	–	–	–	—
2003	17	81	36	–	–	–	—
2004	18	63	25	48	–	–	—
2005	19	58	31	25	–	–	—
2006	20	20	14	9	–	–	20
2007	21	8	13	3	–	–	4
2008	22	33	13	18	–	–	21
2009	23	22	20	10	–	–	17
2010	24	19	24	15	36	51	3
2011	25	21	16	17	47	48	6
2012	26	10	2	21	–	–	—
2013	27	14	12	16	–	–	3
2014	28	25	15	30	–	–	2
2015	29	29	16	22	–	–	8

Race podiums

3 wins – (1 GS, 2 SL)
14 podiums – (5 GS, 3 SL, 4 SC, 2 parallel slalom)

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2007	25 Nov 2006	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
	15 Dec 2006	Reiteralm, Austria	Super combined	2nd
	24 Feb 2007	Sierra Nevada, Spain	Giant slalom	1st
	10 Mar 2007	Zwiesel, Germany	Giant slalom	3rd
	18 Mar 2007	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Giant slalom	3rd
2009	25 Jan 2009	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Giant slalom	2nd
2010	29 Jan 2010	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Super combined	2nd
2012	3 Jan 2012	Zagreb, Croatia	Slalom	3rd
	22 Jan 2012	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Slalom	1st
	21 Feb 2012	Moscow, Russia	Parallel slalom	2nd
	17 Mar 2012	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	1st
2013	1 Jan 2013	Munich, Germany	Parallel slalom	3rd
2013	24 Feb 2013	Méribel, France	Super combined	3rd
2014	12 Jan 2014	Altenmarkt, Austria	Super combined	2nd

World Championship results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2007	21	9	4	—	—	DSQ1
2009	23	DNF1	5	—	—	DSQ1
2011	25	DNF2	—	—	—	13
2013	27	2	DSQ1	—	—	4
2015	29	DNF2	6	—	—	3

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant slalom	Super-G	Downhill	Combined
2006	20	5	DNF2	—	—	6
2010	24	DNF2	15	—	—	9
2014	28	DNF2	12	—	—	7

References

-- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --

local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno

local p = {}

-- Helper functions

local function getArgs(frame) -- Fetches the arguments from the parent frame. Whitespace is trimmed and -- blanks are removed. mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') return mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true}) end

local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end

function p.findNamespaceId(link, removeColon) -- Finds the namespace id (namespace number) of a link or a pagename. This -- function will not work if the link is enclosed in double brackets. Colons -- are trimmed from the start of the link by default. To skip colon -- trimming, set the removeColon parameter to true. checkType('findNamespaceId', 1, link, 'string') checkType('findNamespaceId', 2, removeColon, 'boolean', true) if removeColon ~= false then link = removeInitialColon(link) end local namespace = link:match('^(.-):') if namespace then local nsTable = mw.site.namespaces[namespace] if nsTable then return nsTable.id end end return 0 end

function p.formatPages(...) -- Formats a list of pages using formatLink and returns it as an array. Nil -- values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local ret = {} for i, page in ipairs(pages) do ret[i] = p._formatLink(page) end return ret end

function p.formatPageTables(...) -- Takes a list of page/display tables and returns it as a list of -- formatted links. Nil values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local links = {} for i, t in ipairs(pages) do checkType('formatPageTables', i, t, 'table') local link = t[1] local display = t[2] links[i] = p._formatLink(link, display) end return links end

function p.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) -- Formats an error message to be returned to wikitext. If -- addTrackingCategory is not false after being returned from -- Module:Yesno, and if we are not on a talk page, a tracking category -- is added. checkType('makeWikitextError', 1, msg, 'string') checkType('makeWikitextError', 2, helpLink, 'string', true) yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle() -- Make the help link text. local helpText if helpLink then helpText = ' (help)' else helpText = end -- Make the category text. local category if not title.isTalkPage and yesno(addTrackingCategory) ~= false then category = 'Hatnote templates with errors' category = string.format( '%s:%s', mw.site.namespaces[14].name, category ) else category = end return string.format( '%s', msg, helpText, category ) end

-- Format link -- -- Makes a wikilink from the given link and display values. Links are escaped -- with colons if necessary, and links to sections are detected and displayed -- with " § " as a separator rather than the standard MediaWiki "#". Used in -- the template.

function p.formatLink(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local link = args[1] local display = args[2] if not link then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no link specified', 'Template:Format hatnote link#Errors', args.category ) end return p._formatLink(link, display) end

function p._formatLink(link, display) -- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the -- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links -- categorise the page and file links display the file. checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string') checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true) link = removeInitialColon(link) local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false) local colon if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then colon = ':' else colon = end -- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the | magic -- word. if not display then local prePipe, postPipe = link:match('^(.-)|(.*)$') link = prePipe or link display = postPipe end -- Find the display value. if not display then local page, section = link:match('^(.-)#(.*)$') if page then display = page .. ' § ' .. section end end -- Assemble the link. if display then return string.format('%s', colon, link, display) else return string.format('%s%s', colon, link) end end

-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.

function p.hatnote(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local s = args[1] local options = {} if not s then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no text specified', 'Template:Hatnote#Errors', args.category ) end options.extraclasses = args.extraclasses options.selfref = args.selfref return p._hatnote(s, options) end

function p._hatnote(s, options) checkType('_hatnote', 1, s, 'string') checkType('_hatnote', 2, options, 'table', true) local classes = {'hatnote'} local extraclasses = options.extraclasses local selfref = options.selfref if type(extraclasses) == 'string' then classes[#classes + 1] = extraclasses end if selfref then classes[#classes + 1] = 'selfref' end return string.format( '

', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )

end

return p-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --