page_title: Stefan Gimpl
section_title: Career highlights
hierarchical_section_title: Stefan Gimpl / Career highlights
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context_page_description: Stefan Gimpl is a professional snowboarder from Austria. His specialty is the big air and he is the only rider so far who has won the Air & Style Contest three times in a row.
  In 2006 Stefan gimpl won his first gold medal in Big Air and he did not get another until 2008 when he won three gold medals in a row. Stefan Gimpl has been snowboarding since 1992 and is still snowboarding. Stefan Gimpl is sponsored by FTWO, Smith, O'Neill, and Leogang. His hobbies are snowboarding, golfing, tennis, and photography. Stefan Gimpl has won many medals in Big Air in many different places. Stefan Gimpl won first place in Quebec City, on North American soil for the first time in five years.
context_section_description: FIS World Snowboard Championships
  2007 – Arosa, 18th at big air
  2009 – Barcelona (Barcelona Snow Show),  1st at big air
  World Cup
  2005 – Rotterdam,  2nd at big air
  2006 – Klagenfurt,  1st at big air
  2006 – Milano,  2nd at big air
  2007 – Torino,  3rd at big air
  2007 – Rotterdam,  2nd at big air
  2007 – Sofia,  1st at big air
  2008 – Graz,  1st at big air
  2008 – Moscow,  1st at big air
  2009 – Quebec city,  1st at big air
  2009 – Seoul,  2nd at big air
  European Cup
  2006 – Klagenfurt,  2nd at big air
  South American Cup
  2005 – Las Lenas,  2nd at big air
caption: Gimpl at World Cup, Seoul, December 13, 2009
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