Kilian Albrecht Austrian Championships 2008

Kilian Albrecht ( bg, Килиан Албрехт; born 13 April 1973 in

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) is an

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former

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who represented both

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and

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. He competed for Austria at the

2002 Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soó ...

and for Bulgaria at the

2010 Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...

. His best result was a 4th-place finish in the

slalom To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to: Sports ;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding * Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Super-G ...

in 2002, missing a medal by only .04 of a second. Albrecht has won two medals, both silvers, on the FIS World Cup. Both have been in slalom. The first was in 2000 at Kitzbuehel, the second in 2002 at

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. Since retiring, Albrecht has gone into sports management, most notably managing slalom World Cup winner, World Champion and Olympic champion

Mikaela Shiffrin Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup ...

. In 2009, Albrecht was elected chairman of the International Ski Federation's Athletes' Commission for four years. He was succeeded in 2013 by cross-country skier Kikkan Randall. Albrecht is currently manager of slalom star Mikaela Shiffrin.

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* * 1973 births Living people Austrian male alpine skiers Bulgarian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Olympic alpine skiers of Bulgaria Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Universiade medalists in alpine skiing Universiade gold medalists for Austria Competitors at the 1999 Winter Universiade {{Bulgaria-alpine-skiing-bio-stub