Andreas Matt ( . Andreas Matt ; born October 19, 1982 ) is an Austrian freestyle player who specialized in ski cross . World champion, winner of the Freestyle World Cup in the standings of ski cross. Olympic medalist .
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| Date of Birth | October 19, 1982 (36 years) | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Zams , Austria | |||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 192 cm | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 100 kg | |||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  SC Flirsch | |||||||||||||||||
| In the national team | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
| Status | completed career | |||||||||||||||||
| End of career | September 15, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games |  ( 2010 ) | |||||||||||||||||
| World Championship |  ( 2009 ) | |||||||||||||||||
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Career
Andreas Matt was born in 1982 into a sports family. His older brother Mario is a famous skier, 2014 Olympic slalom champion and three-time world champion. Andreas Michael's younger brother is also a skier, Olympic medalist and world championships.
Non-international arena in the World Cup Andreas Matt made his debut in early 2004 at the stage in Le-Contaminus-Monjois , where he took 54th place. Three days after the debut, he became the 27th on the stage at Pozza di Fassa , gaining his first career cup points.
For several years, Matt did not achieve much success and teetered on the verge of hitting the Austrian national team. It was only at the end of the 2007/08 season that an Austrian hit the cup podium for the first time, becoming the third in the Italian Valmalenko stage. Fortunately for Matt season 2008/09 . January 10, he won his first career victory, and at the World Championships in Japan, excelled at ski-cross, becoming the world champion.
At the Olympics in Vancouver, the Austrian freestyle player showed the fourth time in qualifying, and in all subsequent descents he finished second, thus winning the silver medal, losing only to the Swiss Michael Schmidt .
In the 2010/11 season, Matt scored three wins and won the Small Crystal Globe in the ski-crosscountry, and also became the second in the overall standings. At the World Championships in the United States, an Austrian made his way to the final descent and won a bronze medal.
At the Olympics in Sochi, Andreas Matt won his 1/8 finals, but in the quarterfinals he took the last place and stopped the fight for medals.
September 15, 2016 announced the completion of a sports career.
Links
- Andreas Matt - statistics on the FIS website (English)
- Andreas Matt - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (eng.)