Linus STRASSER

Historical Results

Baking.

Athlete, Customs officer (dsv-jahrbuch.de)

Attended boarding school at CJD Christophorusschulen Berchtesgaden, a popular school with German Olympians across many sports. (cjd-christophorusschulen-berchtesgaden.de)

Father, Georg. Mother, Sonja.

German, English

TSV 1860 Muenchen

National: Bernd Brunner (AUT)

Football (soccer), tennis, motocross.

2007 FIS event in Kaunertal (Slalom - 43rd)
2013 World Cup in Solden (Giant slalom - DNQ1)

5 December 2019: Scaphoid fracture in right hand during during super-G training in Santa Caterina, resulting in a six-week recovery before returning in just four weeks to finish seventh in the Zagreb slalom using a special protective glove. (Facebook; newsrnd.de)

2011: Hip injury suffered after winning the German junior championship. Had surgery and missed the remainder of the 2011/12 season. (newsrnd.de)

2010: Mononucleosis. (dsv-jahrbuch.de)

2012

Began skiing on one of his family's regular holidays in the Austrian Tirol. Joined the Kitzbuhel Ski Club when he was six, but as a German skiing in an Austrian club, his family felt it better to join a club in Germany. In 2001, at age nine, he began skiing with TSV 1860 Muenchen. (dsv-jahrbuch.de skimagazin.de)

It has always been a huge dream of his to win a World Cup race. "It wasn't long ago that it was very far away, and then it happened pretty quickly. A fulfilled dream brings about a different view of one's own future. You grow into a task, but you also grow with it.” (faz.net, 22 Jun 2017)

Uses motocross as a training tool to work on his sense of balance. (dsv-jahrbuch.de)

Finishing fifth in the famed Schladming Night Race slalom in January 2015, career best at the time, launching him into the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships at Vail/Beaver Creek a few weeks later where he finished 10th.

Alpine skier Kjetil Andre Aamodt (NOR), eight-time Olympic medallist (four gold, two silver, two bronze).

As a seven-year-old in Kitzbuhel, he asked Aamodt for his racing bib after the Hahnenkamm race in the finish are and was handed Aamodt's skis, trophy and podium flowers, and carefully put the racing bib over Strasser’s jacket. “As a child, and even as an athlete, you need an idol. I had that too in Norwegian Kjetil Andre Aamodt.” (faz.net, 22 Jun 2017)

Alpine skier Felix Neureuther (GER), three-time Olympian and five-time World Championships medallist. "Felix (Neureuther) was always my role model." (skimagazin.de, 2015)

“I see my sport as a big puzzle. You have to put it together over the years. If you think it's all about talent, it won't work. Up to a certain point it's about talent, but at some point it doesn't work without an iron will, without hard work put into it.” (faz.net, 22 Jun 2017)

"When I race across the finish line and the display board lights up green: This is the most intense moment you can experience." (web.de)