Lara Gut

Lara Gut (* April 27, 1991 in Sorengo ) is a Swiss ski racer. It belongs to the national team of Swiss-Ski and goes all-rounder in all disciplines at the start, where their strengths lie in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super -G. Good so far won three silver medals at World Championships and is the youngest winner of a super - G World Cup race.

  • 3.1 The Olympic Games
  • 3.2 World Championships
  • 3.3 Junior World Championships
  • 3.4 World Cup ratings
  • 3.5 World Cup wins
  • 3.6 European Cup
  • 3.7 Further successes

Biography

Rapid ascent to world class

Good grew up in Comano the canton of Ticino. In 2006, she won the Trofeo Topolino. As a 15 - year-old she played her first FIS races in December 2006. At the Junior World Championships 2007 in Altenmarkt, she won just behind Tina Weirather the silver medal in the downhill. In the same year she was Swiss champion in the Super- G, the second- youngest driver ever ( only Bernadette Zurbriggen in 1971 have been even younger). In Formigal she was at the Junior World Championship 2008 again second in the downhill.

In Skieuropacup Good took second place in the downhill score in the 2006/07 season. Within four days, they won consecutively in January 2008 Caspoggio four European Cup races ( two downhills and super- G). She decided in the 2007/ 08 season with a big lead the European Cup discipline ratings in the Downhill and Super -G for yourself; also it was already clear three races left in the season as the overall winner.

On 28 December 2007 Good drove her first World Cup race, the giant slalom in Lienz, but did not, as in the following three races to the finish. On 2 February 2008, she went to St. Moritz in her first World Cup downhill surprising to third place and won her first World Cup points; the victory they missed with a inconsequential fall in the target slope. In April 2008 the Swiss Sports Aid chose Good for " junior athlete of the year ." On the occasion of the election of the Swiss Sportsman of the Year in December 2008, she won the vote " Newcomer of the Year », where they prevailed against Nino Schurter and Luca Sbisa. Due to the success at a relatively young age manor was sometimes referred to as one of the greatest talents of the Swiss Alpine skiing in recent decades.

On December 20, 2008 Well won her first World Cup race, the super -G in St. Moritz at the age of 17 years and eight months. This makes it the youngest ever World Cup winner in this discipline at all. At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, she won the downhill and super combined in each case the silver medal. In the super -G, she took seventh place in the giant slalom she was disqualified in the first run out. Your first full World Cup season, she finished as eleventh overall. There she also managed to drive in all disciplines in the top 15. End of April 2009 she became the first athlete for the second time in a row, the Young Investigator Award of the Swiss Sports Aid.

Sporadic success

End of September 2009 plunged Good hard during the giant slalom training in Saas -Fee and suffered doing a dislocation of the right hip. In early October they had to have an operation. They could therefore not participate in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, on more races this season, they renounced.

At the beginning of the season 2010/11 Good returned to the World Cup. 18 December 2010 she managed third place in the downhill in Val d'Isere, the first podium after their year-long injury break. Two days earlier, the Swiss Ski Federation Swiss-Ski had imposed disciplinary action against them, partly because of public criticism of coach Mauro Pini and repeated violations of the clothes wearing regulations. Good end of December has been banned for two World Cup races in Semmering. After they had announced the meantime, initiate a mediation process before the International Court of Sport, the two sides agreed shortly before the end. On January 9, 2011 Good won the Super -G in Zauchensee their second World Cup race. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen missed good in both the downhill and super-G in fourth just under the podium.

In the season 2011/12 Good could not quite match the performance of the previous winter. This was due on one hand the Skimarkenwechsel Atomic to Rossignol (associated with the so usual adjustment difficulties ), on the other hand, the ambitious racing program ( starts in all five disciplines and in almost all races). In particular, in the slalom, this strategy proved to be missed, as they crossed the finish line in any of the six races to which they took. Podiums were made ​​in this winter, the best result was a 4th place in the Super G in Lake Louise.

Good waived in the season 2012/13 season on slalom race, which has a positive effect on the performance in the other disciplines. On December 14, 2012, she celebrated the departure of Val d'Isere her third World Cup victory, the first in this discipline. Despite a small crisis at the turn of ( number 38 in the departure of St. Anton to the best training time ), she was nominated in four disciplines for the World Cup 2013. In the super -G, she won a silver medal for the third time. At the end of the season she managed at the World Cup finals, a third place in the giant slalom in Lenzerheide.

Current season

On October 26, 2013 Good won with a wide margin the first World Cup race of the season 2013/14, the giant slalom in Soelden. This was their first victory in this event and the first of a Swiss woman for almost eleven years ( last Sonja Nef had won on 4 January 2003 in Bormio ). In late November she won in Beaver Creek both the departure and the Super -G. It is thus the first skier Petra Kronberger since the winter of 1990/ 91, which three of the four first World Cup race of the season could decide for themselves.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, she won the bronze medal in the downhill. They also won the super - G World Cup itself.

Surroundings

Although a part of the pro forma Good squad of Swiss-Ski in, but it is supervised and approved by the association of a private, funded by sponsors coaching staff. During the season, travels and trains them with the other Swiss athletes, summer training, it denies but individually. Father Pauli Gut occurs as team manager; In May 2009, he released also as a head coach Mauro Pini from his childhood friend, who once brought the Spaniard María José Rienda at the top. Karl Frehsner advises estate in the speed disciplines.

The father came from German-speaking Switzerland, the mother from the Romandie. Lara Gut is fluent in Italian, French and German, besides English and Spanish. The school she completed via distance learning.

In the 2012 film shot " Tutti giù " (" Freefall " ) by the director Niccolò Castelli from Lugano Lara plays the Good young skier Chiara, which is not grown up yet overwhelmed by their own success.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 3rd exit, 4th Super G, 9 Giant Slalom

World Championships

  • Val d'Isere 2009: 2nd exit, 2nd Super Combined, Super G 7
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 4 Super -G, 4th exit 20 Giant Slalom
  • Schladming 2013: 2 Super -G, Giant Slalom 7, 16 departure

Junior World Championships

  • Altenmarkt 2007: 2nd downhill, giant slalom 44
  • Formigal 2008: 2nd exit 4 Super -G, Giant Slalom 8

World Cup ratings

  • Season 2008/ 09: 9, Giant Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2010/ 11: 10th overall World Cup super- G World Cup 4, 7 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 2011/12: 8 Super - G World Cup
  • Season 2012/13: 9 Overall World Cup, 4th Combined World Cup, fifth downhill World Cup, 6 Cup Giant Slalom, Super - G World Cup 10
  • Season 2013/14: 3rd Overall World Cup, 1 Super - G World Cup, 4 giant slalom World Cup, 6 Downhill World Cup

World Cup wins

18 podiums including 10 victories:

European Cup

Discipline ratings:

  • Season 2006/ 07: 2nd exit
  • Season 2007/ 08: overall winner, 1st exit, first Super -G, 3 combined, 4 Giant Slalom

A total of 14 podium finishes, including 7 wins:

Other successes

  • 2 Swiss Championship (Super -G and Giant Slalom 2007 2012)
  • 2 wins at FIS races
  • Junior athlete of the years 2007 and 2008
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