Amelie Kober
Amelie Kober (born 16 November 1987 in Bad Aibling ) is a German snowboarder.
Kober won at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 as an outsider the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom. The members of the Federal Police had to deal only the Swiss Daniela Meuli beaten. At the 2007 World Championships in Arosa Kober won in the same discipline also silver, this time behind the Russian Ekaterina Tudegeschewa.
Your ticket to Torino 2006 Olympics it secured by a second place finish at the FIS Snowboard World Cup 2005/2006 in Sölden in the parallel giant slalom women. That was her until then best career result at this time. Third place went to the Swiss Daniela Meuli in this competition.
For its occurrence in Turin, she was elected to Germany's Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2006. On 17 July 2006, she was at the Munich Congress Center (ICM ) with the Bavarian sports award " ( in ) Outstanding (r ) Young Athletes " in the category.
In the 2009 World Cup season Kober won the season opener five of the last six races after the squares 30, 12 and 14, and once came in second. With the victory in the final race in Valmalenco they displaced in the discipline rating parallel the hitherto leading Austrian Doris Guenther yet from first place and secured the small crystal. In the overall World Cup, she was so third parties.
In the World Cup season in 2010 she won the World Cup as a local hero in the PGS Sudelfeld. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 Kober retired in the quarterfinals. At a start in the subsequent classification race for places 5-8 they renounced because of her pregnancy and so reached the eighth place.
On January 25, 2013 Kober won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboard World Cup in Canada.
A year later she won at the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in spite of a bony elbow Kapselausrisses in the bronze medal in the parallel slalom behind the austrian Julia Dujmovits and German Anke Karstens.
The home club of the German champion in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom in 2004 and two-time Junior World silver medalist, the SC Miesbach in Upper Bavaria.
Parallel World Cup
World Cup wins
World Cup rankings
Others
Amelie Kober has since September 2010 mother of their son Lorenz.