Juliane Bray

Juliane Linda Bray ( born October 9, 1975 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand snowboarder. It starts in the halfpipe and snowboard cross.

As early as 1996 she launched in her first FIS races in a parallel slalom in her native New Zealand Cardrona and managed the first victory the following year. FIS races denies Bray mainly in New Zealand and Japan, altogether, she was victorious in seven of these competitions, both in the halfpipe and in the Cross.

Direct her World Cup debut in Whistler Mountain Bray managed the podium with a third place in the snowboard cross. By the end of the season 2007/2008 she was able to drive in the points in both disciplines up to three races in each of their starts. Thirteen top- ten finishes by then she was the fourteenth in the season opener 2008/2009 follow in Cardrona, as they finished ninth in the halfpipe. In the season standings of the World Cup was her best place in the halfpipe standings in 2007, where she was eighth, an improvement of two places to the previous year. Also in 2006 it achieved 20th place with their best result in the overall standings. Previously, she was in 2001 ever been 15th in the Snowboard Cross - discipline standings.

Juliane Bray joined the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin in the halfpipe and snowboard cross at. They came in 16th and 20th place. Your first attendance at World Championships was in 2005, when she was in the Snowboard Cross 28. At the 2007 World Championships in Arosa she could convince a ninth place mainly in the halfpipe, in the Cross, she managed to 22nd place.

In September 2006, she won her first national title at the New Zealand championships in the Remarkables in the halfpipe and slopestyle was second. In their actual stronger discipline snowboard cross it came to fourth place.

Bray takes 2008/2009 next race of the FIS also to the Burton Global Open Series and the Ticket -to -Ride Tour part. On the very first race weekend she succeeded doing a victory in the overall standings, the combination of slopestyle, halfpipe and quarterpipe.

Juliane Bray lives in Wanaka New Zealand. After surgery in both knees in 2007 for the removal of cartilage damage she prepares for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

Snowboard World Cup rankings

(Updated: November 28, 2008)