Personal information | |
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Born | Slovenj Gradec, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia [1] | 15 February 1989
Occupation | Alpine skier ♂ |
Skiing career | |
Disciplines | Combined, downhill, giant slalom, slalom and Super-G |
Club | SK Crna |
World Cup debut | 4 March 2017 (age 28) |
Olympics | |
Teams | 2 – (2018, 2022) |
World Championships | |
Teams | 3 – (2017–2021) |
Albin Tahiri (born 15 February 1989) is a Kosovo Albanian World Cup alpine ski racer. He represented the Kosovo Olympic Committee for the first time in Winter Olympic Games in February 2018. [2] [3] Tahiri is a dentist by profession [4] and he trained in Slovenia, Austria and Italy.
Tahiri was born in SR Slovenia from Kosovo Albanian father and Slovenian mother.
He started skiing at the age of 7 in Slovenia. In June 2009, he changed his nationality and has since been competing in Kosovo. He was the first athlete to represent Kosovo at the Winter Olympics. [5] He was the Kosovo's flag bearer during the Parade of Nations of the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang.
Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
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Date | Location | Place | ||||||
Slalom | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 March 2019 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | 54th |
Giant slalom | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 March 2018 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | 44th |
Super-G | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Downhill | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 January 2018 | Wengen, Switzerland | 55th |
Combined | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 January 2018 | Wengen, Switzerland | 43rd |
Total | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
2017 | 28 | 51 | DNF1 | 49 | 51 | 45 |
2019 | 30 | 61 | 51 | 45 | 55 | DNF2 |
2021 | 32 | 32 | 37 | — | — | — |
Year | ||||||
Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
2018 | 29 | 39 | 56 | 47 | 50 | 37 |
2022 | 32 | 30 | — | 35 | 15 |
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