Anna Wörner

Anna Wörner ( born September 27, 1989 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen ) is a German freestyle skier. She specializes in the discipline of ski cross.

Biography

Anna Wörner began as a teenager in alpine skiing and in 2006 German Youth Vice Champion in the downhill. Since 2007, it starts in the ski cross, and in 2008 German youth champion in this discipline. In January 2008, she made her debut in the European Cup for eighth place, shortly after she made her debut in the Sierra Nevada in the World Cup, was disqualified in this race, however. The first victory in the European Cup she was able to start the next season in December 2008 Grasgehren, while they beat their teammates Heidi Zacher, Julia Manhard and Alexandra Grauvogl the German quadruple triumph. She drove more top ten results a with a podium and was at the end of the season in fourth place in the ski cross standings of the Continental Cup.

In the 2008 /09 season, Wörner established in the World Cup team with 18th place as best result. They secured this season and their first league titles in women. Internationally, it improved in the next season, they started with a fourth place in St. Johann and the she took in five out of eleven races and was there placed four times in the top ten. In addition to the 15th place in the annual ranking of the World Cup ski cross brought her the qualification for the Olympic competitions, which were held in Vancouver in February 2010. The output from the German Olympic Sports Confederation Olympic standard general demanded a place in the top eight or two placings in the top fifteen. In Vancouver Wörner drove in qualifying the seventh fastest time, but crashed into the following first round and finished as the final result the split seventeenth rank.

The 2010/11 season began successfully for Wörner. If it was coming in the season opener in Innichen still in the squares of 15 and 21, it was the first World Cup victory of Heidi Zacher as a third of the race in St. Johann in Tirol on 7 January 2011 for the first time on the podium and contributed to the previously best team result German Freestyle Skier at in the history of the World Cup. On 11 February 2011, she won her first World Cup race at Blue Mountain.

Wörner visited by 2006 the secondary school St. Irmengard in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and graduated in 2008 trained as a nanny from.

Achievements

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010: 17th place ski cross
• Sochi 2014: 9 ski cross

World Championships

• Deer Valley 2011: 9th place ski cross
• Voss 2013: 5 ski cross

World Cup

• Season 2010/ 11: 7 ski cross World Cup
• Season 2011/12: 10 ski cross World Cup
• Season 2012/13: 10 ski cross World Cup
• 5 podiums including 3 victories:

Other successes

• European Cup season 2008/ 09: 4 ski cross standings
• 2 podiums in the European Cup, including 1 win