Dominique Gisin

Dominique Gisin ( born June 4, 1985 in Engelberg ) is a Swiss ski racer. She specializes in the disciplines of downhill, super -G and giant slalom. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, she won the gold medal in the downhill.

Biography

Her younger brother Marc and her younger sister Michelle are also ski racer. She's just like her brother attended secondary school for sports in Engelberg. She is single and lives in Engelberg.

Gisin drove in January 2001, the first FIS races. However, while almost three years, they could due to several serious knee injuries deny a single race and focused on their education. By 2005 she was a student of middle school sports at their residence Engelberg and then began a physics major at the University of Basel (now discontinued ). They also passed the entrance exam for training as fighter aircraft -pilot of the Swiss Air Force; However, because of the injury it is deemed unfit for service.

As of December 2003 Gisin was able to race again. First Notable successes it achieved in February 2005 with fourth place in the downhill run of the Junior World Cup in Bardonecchia and winning the Swiss Downhill Junior Championship in April 2005. During her debut in the World Cup in Lake Louise, she went on 2 December 2005 in the first downhill training surprising best. The race itself but was overshadowed by a serious injury. After the second meantime, she tore at the entrance to the most technically challenging part of the track in the right knee, the medial collateral ligament. The injury took a four month break from competition by itself.

About FIS races and the European Cup Gisin fought his way back into the Swiss World Cup squad. On 19 December 2006 she drove in Val d'Isere at the fourth World Cup downhill her career surprising to ninth place. This power they confirmed a day later at the same place with the same placement. On January 13, 2007, she reached the second place in the departure of Altenmarkt their first podium result. At the World Cup downhill in Åre on 11 February 2007, she finished fifth.

On 28 February 2007, Gisin injured again. At the first training run for the downhill in Tarvisio she retired after a fall a cruciate ligament and a medial ligament tear in his left knee and a medial ligament - scribe on his right knee. It was followed by the total seventh knee surgery. Gisin was reconnected with the world's best, top results, however, remained in the 2007/ 08 season, with the exception of a ninth place out. On 18 January 2009 she won - at the same time with Anja Parson - her first World Cup race, the downhill in Altenmarkt. Six days later, she confirmed this success with the downhill win in Cortina d' Ampezzo. However, at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere she was disqualified in downhill.

In January 2010, Gisin suffered in the departure of the house in the Enns valley a tear in the medial meniscus. After an arthroscopy she had to pause for three weeks. On the downhill at the Winter Olympic Games 2010 Gisin crashed in Zielhang hard and pulled it a concussion. On March 7, 2010, she won in Crans-Montana her first Super -G in the context of the World Cup. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she finished fourth in the super - Kombinbation and eighth in the downhill. In the super -G she left. In the World Cup two third places were their best results in the 2010/11 season.

On October 22, 2011 Gisin took in Sölden for the first time ever at a World Cup giant slalom in part and drove it to eleventh place. Then she reached in downhill and super -G several top - 10 finishes, including a third place at the first exit of Lake Louise. On January 13, 2012, she suffered in downhill training in Cortina d' Ampezzo meniscus and cartilage injury in his left knee. She took the next day at the exit part, but then had to the 2011/12 season prematurely. On October 27, 2012, they also improved their giant slalom in Soelden Best to 4th place and on January 27, 2013, it scored as 30 in Maribor for the first time in a slalom. During the Departure of the World Cup 2013 Gisin fell and broke his right metacarpal. Despite this injury, she was able to continue the season after a short pause.

During the World Cup season 2013/14 is classified Gisin comes regularly in the top ten ( in three different disciplines ), but did not have a sixth square. Somewhat surprisingly, she won at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 the gold medal in the downhill, coinciding with the Slovenian Tina Maze.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 1st exit, 5th Super Combined, Giant Slalom 10

World Championships

  • Åre 2007: 5th exit
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 4 Super Combined, 8th departure
  • Schladming 2013: 10 Super -G, Super Combined 10

World Cup

  • Season 2008/ 09: 4 downhill World Cup
  • Season 2010/ 11: 6 Super - G World Cup, 9th downhill World Cup
  • Season 2012/13: 10 Giant Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2013/14: 9 Downhill World Cup
  • 7 podiums including 3 victories:

* At the same time with Anja Parson

European Cup

Junior World Championships

  • Bardonecchia 2005: 4th exit 21 Giant Slalom, Super -G 27
Super-G Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup Lake Louise (Alberta) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup Italy Hedy Schlunegger Madeleine Berthod Heidi Biebl Christl Haas Olga Pall Michela Figini Marina Kiehl Kerrin Lee-Gartner Katja Seizinger Michaela Dorfmeister
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