Hubert Hirschbichler
Germany
| Sport | Speed Skating | |
| FederationID | SSGER12002199101 | |
| NOC | Germany | |
| Born | 20 Feb 1991
in  Traunstein | |
| Gender | Men |
| Languages | English, German |
| Personal Bests | Event | Record | Date | Location | ||
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Personal Bests | ||||||
| Event | Record | Date | Location | |||
| 500m | 35.84 | 22 Nov 2015 |  Salt Lake City, UT |
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| 1000m | 1:09.02 | 21 Nov 2015 | Salt Lake City, UT |
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| 1500m | 1:47.25 | 20 Nov 2015 | Salt Lake City, UT |
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| 5000m | 6:55.66 | 21 Feb 2010 | Erfurt |
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| Main Achievements | ||||||
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Main Achievements |
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| World Junior Championships | Event | |||||
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World Junior Championships
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| Team Pursuit 8 Laps | 1 | |||||
Sport Specific Information
Sport Specific Information
| Reason for choosing this sport | Both of his parents and his sisters skated, so he followed their influence and took up the sport himself. |
General Interest
General Interest
| Most influential person in career | His father. (Athlete, 28 Jan 2017) |
Sport Specific Information
Sport Specific Information
| When and where did you begin this sport? | He first tried the sport in 1997 in Inzell, Germany. |
General Interest
General Interest
| Hobbies | Fishing. (Athlete, 04 Jan 2015) |
Social Media
Social Media
| www.facebook.com/hubert.hirschbichler |
General Interest
General Interest
| Famous relatives | His older sister Gabriele has also competed in speed skating, including at the 2014 and 2018 Olympic Winter Games. (sueddeutsche.de, 08 Feb 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 14 Dec 2020) | |
| Other information | RETIREMENT He retired from competitive speed skating in July 2018 to focus on working at his family's butcher's shop in Inzell, Germany. "I achieved great sporting results, unfortunately I was denied the big success, the participation in the Olympics [Winter Games]. It wasn't meant to be, although I gave everything for it. It wasn't enough." (traunsteiner-tagblatt.de, 21 Jul 2018) |
| World Cups | Year | Competition | Event | Rank | ||
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World Cups
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| 2016/2017 | World Cup Classification | 1000m | 30 | |||
| 2016/2017 | World Cup Classification | 1500m | 39 | |||
| 2015/2016 | World Cup Classification | Mass Start 16 Laps | 42 | |||
| 2011/2012 | World Cup Classification | 1500m | 47 | |||
| 2015/2016 | World Cup Classification | 1000m | 48 | |||
| 2015/2016 | World Cup Classification | 1500m | 48 | |||
| 2013/2014 | World Cup Classification | 1500m | 50 | |||