Julia Dujmovits
Julia Dujmovits ( born June 12, 1987 in Güssing, Burgenland) is an Austrian snowboarder. Their biggest successes are the Olympic gold medal in the parallel slalom in Sochi in 2014 and winning the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom at the World Championships in 2013.
Life
The from Sulz ( district of Güssing ) derived Julia Dujmovits discovered the sport of snowboarding with five years on winter vacation. At age nine, she was given her first snowboard, with eleven years she drove her first race and with 15 years she gained her first World Cup impressions. At the age of twelve, she survived as the only member of her team, the fire disaster in Kaprun glacier funicular, since they had taken the funicular selected the gondola.
Dujmovits is Junior World Champion ( Bad Gastein 2007), European Cup overall champion (2005) and Vice World Champion in Parallel GS ( Stoneham 2013). At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, she dropped out due to injury. In her career, the Burgenländerin was struggling already with two torn ligaments, a dislocated shoulder, a broken ankle and a concussion.
Since May 2012 Dujmovits works with the fitness coach Peter Eich Berger. Under his guidance, she graduated in 2012 and 2013, its construction program on Maui / Hawaii.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics she won the gold medal in the parallel slalom. This medal she devoted her colleagues who died in 2000 at the catastrophic fire Kaprun glacier funicular.
Julia Dujmovits has three brothers.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games
FIS Snowboard World Championships
FIS Snowboard World Cup
FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships
FIS Snowboard European
State Championships
Awards (excerpt)
- 2007, 2011 and 2012: Burgenland Sportswoman of the Year
- 2014 Grand Decoration of Burgenland