Patrick Koller is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n freestyle skier

Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...

 who specializes in the skicross

Skicross

Ski Cross is a type of skiing competition. It is based on the snowboarding discipline of boardercross...

 discipline.

He made his World Cup debut in February 2007 in Les Contamines, with a thirtieth place, and finished among the top twenty for the first time one year later, with a 20nd place in Flaine

Flaine

Flaine is the name of a ski area in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps, and is a part of the linked Grand Massif domain. It is in the territory of the communes of Magland and Arâches. Flaine is linked to Samoëns, Morillon, Les Carroz and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, with 267 km of pistes in total...

. In the last World Cup event of the 2007–08 season he finished tenth in Meiringen

Meiringen

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-Hasliberg

Hasliberg

Hasliberg is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-History:Hasliberg is first mentioned in 1358 as Hasle an dem berge. After 1834 it was known as Gem Hasleberg. Since 1923 the spelling has been Hasliberg.-Geography:Hasliberg has...

. In January 2009 he took his first podium as he finished second in Lake Placid

Lake Placid, New York

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He represents the sports club WSV Söll.