Zali Steggall

Zali Steggall (* April 16, 1974 in Sydney) is a former Australian alpine skier. She drove mainly slalom and was 1999 World Champion in this discipline has been the only athlete from the Southern Hemisphere. In addition, an Olympic bronze medal and a victory in the World Cup Skiing.

Biography

From the fourth to the 14th year Zali Steggall lived with her parents and her brother Zeke (later active as a professional snowboarder ) in France. She learned in the ski resort of Morzine, in Haute-Savoie skiing and regularly participated in the race. However, as an Australian citizen, she found no the French programs and youth team squad. After living for three years in Manly in Sydney, she moved as a 17 -year-old back to Europe, to realize their dream of a skiing career.

With good results in FIS races and in the European Cup to Steggall for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville qualified; in the giant slalom she went on the 23th Place. Her premiere in the World Cup they had in Åre on 27 March 1993. Also at the 1994 Winter Olympics they participated, but could only marginally improve on place 22. The Australian government began in 1994 to promote winter sport specifically which also Steggall increasingly benefited. On 17 December 1995 she drove the slalom of St. Anton am Arlberg for the first time in the top ten of a World Cup race and confirmed this performance five weeks later in Sestriere with fourth place.

After a rather mediocre season 1996/97 Steggall succeeded on November 23, 1997 final breakthrough of the world leaders when it decided the slalom at Park City for himself and became the first Australian winner of a World Cup race. Another World Cup victory of her never succeeded though, but it achieved numerous top -10 results. Another highlight in Steggalls career were the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. In the slalom race Steggall drove in 3rd place and won the first medal for Australia in a single discipline at Winter Games (four years earlier, the short track speed skating relay men's first winter sport medal ever won).

The greatest success of her career Steggall celebrated at the 1999 World Cup in Vail. With clear fastest time in the second run, they secured the slalom gold medal and became the first world champion from the southern hemisphere. At the award ceremony happened a glitch: Instead of the Australian anthem rang those of Armenia. As the surprised organizers had no tape with the correct anthem in stock, they repeated the ceremony on the following day. After these successes Steggall get only mediocre results. Her last race was the slalom of the 2002 Winter Olympics, but in which she was eliminated in the first run. Connecting she announced her retirement from ski racing.

Steggall, who speaks fluent French, had begun a home study course in communication studies during her skiing career. She graduated in 2001 from at Griffith University and then began to study law. In January 2007, she was awarded the Order of Australia for her athletic achievements and her involvement in various charitable organizations., In the following year to the Bar for the state of New South Wales. Steggall was married in September 1999 with Australian rower David Cameron with whom she had two children. The marriage, however, was divorced after seven years. In June 2008, she announced that she would marry the divorced also marketing manager Tim Irving.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • 1992 Albertville: 23 Giant Slalom
  • Lillehammer 1994: 22 Slalom, Giant Slalom 24
  • Nagano 1998: 3rd slalom

World Championships

  • Morioka 1993: 31 Giant Slalom, Slalom 32
  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 1st slalom
  • St. Anton 2001: 25 Giant Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Maribor 1992: 18 combination, 25 Slalom, Giant Slalom 28, 31 downhill, super-G 32
  • Monte Campione 1993: 18 combined, 21 giant slalom, slalom 28, 46 Super -G

World Cup

European Cup

  • Season 1993/94: 6 slalom rating
  • Season 1996/97: 3rd slalom rating
  • 3 podiums, including 1 win

Other successes

  • 7 Australian Championship title ( giant slalom in 1994 and 1995 slalom 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999)
  • 18 wins ( are taken into account only the results from 1994) at FIS races
Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 Slalom skiing Manly, New South Wales Park City (Utah) Nagano, Nagano Vail (Colorado) Alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 Sports Illustrated Christl Cranz Gerda Paumgarten Gretchen Fraser Dagmar Rom Trude Klecker Anne Heggtveit Marianne Jahn Christine Goitschel Annie Famose Marielle Goitschel Ingrid Lafforgue Barbara Cochran Erika Hess Mateja Svet Vreni Schneider Karin Buder Pernilla Wiberg Deborah Compagnoni Marlies Schild Mikaela Shiffrin
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