Stefanie Köhle
Stefanie Kohle ( born June 6, 1986 in Zams ) is an Austrian alpine skier. Your strongest discipline of giant slalom. She won in the 2007/2008 season, the giant slalom rating in the European Cup, and since the same winter in the World Cup at the start.
Biography
Kohle visited the Skihauptschule in Neustift and the Skigymnasium in Stams, graduating with Matura 2005. 2003 Kohle was included in the junior squad of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ), after they had suffered in the season before a torn ACL in his left knee. In the winter of 2003/2004 she celebrated her first victory in a FIS race, but the first participation in a World Junior Championship brought no success. Fared better you two years later, when in 2006 she was ninth in Super -G at the Junior World Championship. After its incorporation in the Austrian Ski -B - squad Kohle was from the 2005/2006 season regularly in the European Cup at the start. After numerous top - 10 finishes and a podium, she celebrated on 16 February 2007 in the Super- G at Sella Nevea their first European Cup victory. The 2006/2007 season she finished in fifth place overall and third place in the super -G standings. After the winter, they rose up in the A-team of the Austrian Ski Federation.
In the 2007/2008 season Kohle celebrated two European Cup victory in the giant slalom in Alleghe and Courchevel, which they finally secured the overall victory in the discipline standings. That same winter, she participated in her first six World Cup races. She won in her debut on 27 October 2007 in the giant slalom at the Rettenbachferner in Sölden with 24th place right away World Cup points, but could not in the other races to qualify for the second round. After their good European Cup results Kohle since the 2008/2009 season primarily in the World Cup at the start. This winter they initially scored several top 20 placements before they finishing ninth in the giant slalom at Åre reached her first top-10 result at the end of the season. The next winter began with an eleventh place in Sölden just as good as the last one ended, but in the rest of the season was hampered by a back injury, after which she went more in any race into the top 15.
After Kohle had denied World Cup races in all five disciplines over the past two seasons, it focuses for the 2010/2011 season again largely on the giant slalom. The best World Cup result that winter, it achieved a twelfth place on December 28, 2010 in Semmering, but in February 2011 she had to prematurely end the season after suffering a serious knee injury. In a training accident in Tendered she had suffered cracks the anterior cruciate ligament and the lateral meniscus in his left knee earlier this month. In the World Cup Winter 2011/2012 Kohle reached a total of four top-10 results in the giant slalom, where her best result was a sixth place in Lienz on December 28, 2011. She took eleventh place in the Giant Slalom World Cup and was the season-ending Austrian Champion in Giant Slalom and Super -G. In spring 2012, they rose after five years in the A-team in the national team of the Austrian Ski Federation on.
On October 27, 2012 Kohle came with the third in the giant slalom in Soelden, the first podium finish in a World Cup race.
Achievements
World Cup
- 7 placings in the top ten, including one podium
Junior World Championships
- Maribor 2004: 38th slalom, 48th Super -G
- Quebec 2006: 9 Super -G, Giant Slalom 22 30 Departure
European Cup
Discipline ratings:
- Season 2006/ 07: 5th overall, 3rd Super -G standings
- Season 2007/ 08: 8th overall, 1st Giant Slalom rating
- Season 2008/ 09: 4 Giant Slalom rating
A total of eight podiums, including 3 victories:
Other successes
- Austrian Champion in the Super- G and giant slalom (2012 )
- 6 wins in FIS races