Larisa Yurkiw

Larisa Yurkiw ( born March 30, 1988 in Wiarton, Ontario ) is a Canadian alpine skier. Their strengths are downhill and super - G, but it also drives other disciplines. Their ancestors came from the Ukraine.

Biography

Yurkiw denied their first more important race in March 2004 at the Nor- Am Cup, 2005, she came to the Canadian ski team. For the first time on the podium, they stood on 8 December 2005 at the exit of Lake Louise, her first victory in the Nor- Am Cup was followed the next day. In the downhill standings Yurkiw in was Nor- Am Cup 2006 Second in the standings Seventh - the same result reached in the Nor- Am Cup 2007 2008 Yurkiw eventually won the overall title of the Nor -Am Cup, the downhill standings and finished second in. the super-G standings. In the same year she also received the silver medal in the combined score at the Ski Junior World Championships 2008.

In the World Cup starts Larisa Yurkiw - in contrast to the Nor- Am Cup - only in the speed disciplines as well as the super - combinations. Your first World Cup competition they had in January 2007 in Altenmarkt, the first World Cup points followed in December 2008 in Lake Louise with space 29 attracted international attention Yurkiw when she in January 2009 unexpectedly getting in the combination Departure from Altenmarkt been. However, in subsequent slalom she fell back a long way and had no points. On 21 February 2009 she achieved her best World Cup result so far, as they finished ninth the departure of Tarvisio.

On 16 December 2009 Yurkiw crashed in downhill training hard in Val d'Isere and suffered ACL tears in his left knee. She had the rest of the winter pause and could not participate in races in the season 2010/11. After a two year hiatus, she launched in December 2011, again in the Nor- Am Cup and came in January 2012, again in the World Cup for use. While they remained until end of season with no points in the World Cup, she has succeeded in Nor- Am Cup 2011/12, two wins and two additional podium finishes. Also in the European Cup they went to the podium for the first time. After she was laid off 13 at the end of winter 2012 / due to the lack of success the Canadian cadres and had to prepare at their own expense to the World Cup season, they reached on December 6, 2013 as the seventh of the first departure from Lake Louise to her best World Cup result.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 20 Departure

World Championships

  • Schladming 2013: 23 Super -G, downhill 28

Junior World Championships

  • Quebec 2006: 40 Giant Slalom, Slalom 41
  • Altenmarkt / Flachau 2007: 7 Downhill, Giant Slalom 28
  • Formigal 2007: 2nd combination, 8 Downhill, Super-G, 10, 20, Giant Slalom, Slalom 26

World Cup

  • 3 places in the top ten

Nor- Am Cup

  • Season 2005/ 06: 7th overall, 2nd downhill standings, 7 Super -G standings
  • Season 2006/ 07: 7th overall, 2nd downhill standings, 4 Combination results
  • Season 2007/ 08: overall winner, 1st exit rating, 2 Super-G standings, fourth combination rating, 5 giant slalom rating
  • Season 2008/ 09: 10th overall, combined score 2, 3 Super G rating
  • Season 2011/12: 10th overall, fifth Super-G standings, 6 giant slalom rating
  • 22 podiums including 10 victories

Other successes

  • 3 Canadian Champion title (leaving in 2008 and 2013, Super-G 2008)
  • 4 podiums in the European Cup
  • 7 wins in FIS races
World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup Lake Louise (Alberta) Slalom skiing Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013
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