Corina Grünenfelder
Corina Green Fields ( born December 29, 1975 in Elm GL) is a former Swiss ski racer. The sister of Jürg and Tobias Green Fields denied mainly slalom, drove in the World Cup three times in the top ten and won three races in the European Cup. She took a total of four times at World Championships and Olympic Winter Games in part, but came here only once, when 27 of the World Cup slalom in 1999, to the finish.
Career
Green Felder's first international major event was the Junior World Championships in 1994 in Lake Placid, where she finished 20th in the giant slalom. After numerous podium finishes in FIS races and several top -15 results in the European Cup, she contested her first World Cup race in January 1998. The first World Cup points they won on 20 December 1998 in 24th place in the slalom in Veysonnaz and on January 17, 1999, she achieved 15th place in the slalom in Semmering her best result of the season 1998 /99. They also came in the 1999 World Cup in Vail / Beaver Creek for use where it was ranked 27 in the slalom. After she had been denied even the giant slalom at the World Cup, but never came in the second round in this discipline, she took from the 1999/2000 season only participate World Cup slalom, but where they could not even qualify regularly for the second pass is. During the winter 1999/2000, only a 25th place in Lienz was her best result, she reached the 14th place in Flachau in the 2000 /01 season. However, in the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg she was disqualified in the first round.
In the World Cup season 2001/ 02, which was their most successful, it managed to achieve consistently good results. Although she fell in three of the nine slaloms in the first round, but in the other six she went always in the top 15 twice, in both the slalom in Maribor on 5 and 6 January 2002, she came into the top ten, taking eighth place achieved their best World Cup result in the second slalom. In the slalom World Cup they finished 17th place. The next winter she could not quite connect with its results. Although they reached a ninth place in the slalom in Maribor, else came but only twice in the top 20 and finished 26th in the slalom World Cup. In the European Cup Green Fields won in these two years a total of three slaloms, which she was in the 2001/02 season sixth in the slalom standings and reached in the 2002/03 season in sixth place in the overall standings and second place in the slalom standings. For large events, however, the open fields had no luck. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City it was after the first passage in the tenth place, but fell in the second run from. The same happened to her at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz. Here it was higher after the first run only in 25th place, but in the second round, they fell out again. In the season 2002/ 03 Green fields did not reach the front more results. She drove in four World Cup Slalom is the fastest 20, but achieved best result only a 17th place in Park City. She took this winter again in two giant slalom at the World Cup in part, but could not qualify for the second round itself. In the European Cup in four years, they remained for the first time without a podium finish. In March 2004, Corina Green Fields was at the age of 28 years her retirement from professional racing known.
Sporting successes
World Championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 27 Slalom
Junior World Championships
- Lake Placid 1994: 20 Giant Slalom
World Cup
- 3 places in the top ten
European Cup
- Season 2001/ 02: 6 slalom rating
- Season 2002/ 03: 6th overall, 2nd slalom rating
- 8 podiums including 3 victories:
Other successes
- 6 wins in FIS slaloms (from the 1994/95 season )