Camilla Nilsson

Camilla Margareta Nilsson ( born August 3, 1967 in Östersund ) is a former Swedish alpine skier. It belonged in the second half of the 1980s, the most successful slalom skiers in the ski world cup.

Career

First international appearance came in Camilla Nilsson, when the then 15 -year-old finished ninth in the giant slalom of the World Youth Championship 1983 in Sestriere. Two years later she won in March 1985 as a sixth of the slalom in Waterville Valley their first World Cup points. In the next five years until her career end in March 1990, she went in the disciplines of slalom and giant slalom another 25 times in the top ten in a World Cup race. Your only victory celebrated Nilsson on January 4, 1987 at slalom in Maribor, which she won ahead of the two Swiss citizens Vreni Schneider and Corinne Schmid Hauser. Another podium finish followed on 13 December of the same year, when she was second in the slalom in Leukerbad behind the Austrian Ida Ladstätter. Overall, they drove in the slalom nine times in the top five, while in the giant slalom sixth place was her best World Cup result.

Camilla Nilsson took once each part in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games. At the 1987 World Championships in Crans -Montana, she was in the giant slalom Eighth, but different in slalom after the fifth fastest time in the first round in race two from. At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 Camilla Nilsson was in slalom after the first run only a hundredth of a second behind the leader Vreni Schneider to second place, but different in race from. Even in the giant slalom, where she was in eleventh place after the first round, she fell from the second run. From 1988 to 1990 Nilsson was six times Swedish champion - three times in the giant slalom, slalom twice and once in the Super -G.