Anne-Sophie Barthet

Anne -Sophie Barthet ( born February 23, 1988 in Toulouse ) is a French alpine skier. She specializes in the slalom and giant slalom.

Biography

Barthet denied her first FIS races in November 2003, the first race in the European Cup was followed in December 2004. Beat your best score so far is a second place in the departure of St. Moritz January 18, 2007. Thus they reached in the 2006 / 07 to fourth place in the downhill standings. In the years 2006 and 2007 she participated in the Junior World Championships and was able to achieve both times eighth in the downhill.

Her debut in the World Cup had Barthet on 22 October 2005 in the giant slalom in Soelden. Two months later, she went in the slalom in Aspen on rank 26 and won the first World Cup points. On December 26, 2006, she achieved 12th place in the slalom in Semmering her provisionally best result. Barthet took in 2006 at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in part: it was ranked 34 in the slalom, the combination they could not finish. At their first World Cup participation in Åre 2007, she was able to reach rank 5 with the team and drove in the slalom at number 19 and in the super-combined at No. 22

In the event of snow and poor visibility embossed World Cup downhill on December 8, 2007 in Aspen Barthet crashed heavily and suffered a dislocation of the patella and torn ligaments in his right knee. The French went with start number 37 at the start, after her fall, the race was canceled. Previously, the Austrian Alexandra Meissnitzer was already hard to come fall. The season 2007/ 08 was due to the violation of Barthet to an end, the following season they could score in any World Cup races.

On November 28, 2009 Barthet took eleventh place in the giant slalom in Aspen their first World Cup points for more than two years and until then the best result in the World Cup. A day later, she was able to improve with sixth place in the slalom in Aspen again, reaching their first top- 10 ranking. A second time she went on 11 January 2011 in ninth place in the slalom in Flachau into the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 she finished 26th in the slalom. Better results they achieved at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, where she finished 14th in the slalom and 19th in giant slalom. In the season 2011/12 Barthet remained without top-10 result, but she could constant points than in previous years and reached numerous top 20 placings their best-ever results in the overall and slalom World Cup.