Bernadette Schild

Bernadette Shield (born 2 January 1990 in Saalfelden ) is an Austrian alpine skier. The younger sister of Joseph and Marlies Schild successfully completed the Skigymnasium in Stams and is a member of the Ski Club Dienten. Your special disciplines are slalom and giant slalom.

Biography

Your first FIS races contested sign at age 15 in December 2005. For the Austrian Championships 2006 in late March in Lech am Arlberg, she was third in the slalom and second in the combined score. In January 2007, she won her first FIS races and celebrated a month later, the first international successes in the European Youth Olympic Festival in Jaca with the silver medal in the giant slalom and the bronze medal in the slalom. At the end of the season she won at the Austrian Championships 2007, again in second place in the combined score.

In the following season, 2007/ 08 plate first participated in the European Cup race and reached sixth place in the slalom in Lenggries their best placement. The end of January she was in Lackenhof am Oetscher Austrian Junior Champion in slalom, giant slalom and the combined score. She celebrated her biggest success on 28 February 2008 at the Junior World Championships in Formigal, as they - surprisingly for many - won the gold medal in the slalom. Thus they could also at the World Cup finals on March 14, 2008 in Bormio go to the start, but where they failed in the second slalom run.

The first World Cup points brought shield in her third World Cup race on 29 December 2008 at night slalom in Semmering with 24th place, three other World Cup operations in January 2009, but she remained without result. In the European Cup they reached in 2008/ 09 with two fourth places in the Giant Slalom their previously best finishes and finished fifth in the discipline standings. At the Junior World Championships in March 2009 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen they missed the title defense, winning just behind Denise Feierabend the silver medal in the slalom. The last race of the season could not deny, since these injured his ankle in a fall in the second round of the Junior World Cup giant slalom.

On 30 November 2009, it reached third place in the slalom of Funäsdalen their first podium in the European Cup. The first victory came on January 29, 2010 in the Giant Slalom in Courchevel. With another podium finish in the slalom in La Molina Shield won in the 2009/10 season the slalom standings and scored a total of ten top - 10 finishes in fifth place in the overall standings. At the Junior World Cup in 2010 it reached only the 19th place in the giant slalom, slalom she fell out. In the world cup they came in this winter to five races in which she remained without points. For the Austrian Championships 2010 in Innerkrems she finished second in the giant slalom.

After sign at the World Cup kick-off the 2010/11 season in Sölden had failed, she won the second race of the season, the slalom in Levi 13 November 2010, for the second time World Cup points - the first time since December 2008 Five weeks later she ran seventh in the slalom. Courchevel for the first time in the top 10. From now on shield could often score in the World Cup, where her again only managed another top 10 ranking in a World Cup slalom in January 2013. With the 6th in the slalom in Flachau on 15 January 2013 shield put her best World Cup result so far, and failed to qualify for the home World Cup in Schladming, where she finished in 12th place. At the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide she scored in second for the first time in her career a podium.

In the 2013/14 season they reached another podium, taking as a third of the slalom in Courchevel was the first time together with her sister Marlies Schild on the podium of a World Cup race on December 17, 2013. With these services, they could qualify for the slalom team at the Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi, where she turned out in fourth place after the first passage in the decision.

Achievements

World Championships

  • Schladming 2013: 12 Slalom

World Cup

  • Season 2012/13: 10th World Cup slalom
  • Season 2013/14: 7 Slalom World Cup
  • 3 podiums

European Cup

  • Season 2008/ 09: 5 giant slalom rating
  • Season 2009/ 10: 5 Ranking, 1st slalom standings, 8 Giant Slalom rating
  • Season 2011/12: 4 Giant Slalom rating
  • 9 podiums, including two victories:

Junior World Championships

  • Flachau 2007: 14 Slalom, Giant Slalom 26
  • Formigal 2008: 1st slalom
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2009: 2nd Slalom
  • Mont Blanc 2010: 19 Giant Slalom

Other successes

  • Austrian Vice Champion in the combined 2006, 2007 and in the giant slalom in 2010
  • Austrian Junior Champion in slalom, giant slalom and combined in 2008
  • Silver in the giant slalom and bronze in slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Jaca 2007
  • 8 wins in FIS races (5x Slalom, Giant Slalom 2x, 1x Super Combined )
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