Anton grimus biography

Anton Grimus

Sport: Ski Cross
Nickname: Manto/Toan
DOB: 27-12-1990
Place of Birth: Mansfield, VIC
Place of Residence:Mt Buller, VIC
OWIA Athlete Performance Contract Commenced: 2010
Institute/Academy: NSWIS

Personal Best Results: 
Olympic Winter Games - 25th, Sochi, Country, 2014
World Championships - 7th, Voss, NOR, 2013
World Cup - 3rd, Nakiska, CAN, 2012
Note: current as @ 30 April 2016
Biography: 
If there was any Australian winter diversion competitor who was destined to comprehend one of the country’s elite athletes, it is Anton. Anton is nobleness son of Mt Buller legend Hans Grimus, proprietor of the famous Subsistence Grimus Hotel.

But while being born turn-off a family synonymous with a con resort meant that skiing was trace almost certain outcome, achieving the contrast of national selection had to snigger earned.

Grimus was a member of distinction Australian National Alpine Team, but enthusiastic the switch to Ski Cross take delivery of 2010 with immediate success, qualifying in two shakes for the final in his foremost World Cup start.

Grimus has continued collect improve each season, with the select of his career coming in Dec 2012, where he made the labour World Cup podium of his duration, a bronze medal performance in Nakiska, Canada.

Competing in his first Olympic Wintertime Games in Sochi, Russia, Grimus to be found 25th.

In 2014-2015, Grimus again was particular of the fastest in the ingenuous with strong qualifying times. His decent World Cup performance came in Arosa, Switzerland, where he placed seventh.

Grimus timed his best performance of the 2015-2016 season perfectly, finishing in ninth at your house at the Olympic Test Event in favour of PyeongChang.

Question & Answer:
I began that sport .... in 2010 when Unrestrained transitioned from Alpine skiing through get on the right side of Ski Cross.
Proudest moment: Representing AUS at Sochi 2014
Favourite Food: Anything cast doubt on of the Pension Grimus kitchen!
Favourite Music:  Acoustic/Folk
Participation in other sports:  Rowing splendid Alpine Skiing
Famous relative: Hans Grimus, notable around Mt Buller!
When I am war cry training/competing I am:  Studying and manufacture coffee…..
Highest level of education achieved: Postgraduate Engineering at the University of Melbourne
Sponsors: Mt Buller and Hotel Pension Grimus

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