Magda Genuin

Magda Genuin ( born June 17, 1979 in Agordo, Province of Belluno ) is an Italian cross-country skier.

Life and career

During her junior Genuin time was more successful rather on the longer distances. So in Saalfelden and 1999 in Pontresina they reached at the Junior World Cup in 1998 respectively to 13th place on 15 km distance. While, however, in their first World Cup competition in 2000 about 5 km einkam in Bormio only in the back of the midfield, their later succeeded in their second outing one year in the sprint in Asiago with space 17 is a decent result. So Genuin developed in the following years more and more of a sprint specialist. In the 2001 /02 season they ersprintete in Val di Fiemme with seventh place her first top ten result. Thus it came as no surprise that the young athlete was nominated for the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. There, too, she managed to place 22 a respectable result. This result was Genuin improve at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in their own country again by five places. While she continued to continuously recorded World Cup points in the sprint competitions in the 2003/04 season and was able to place even in distance races in the top thirty, they already failed in the 2004/05 season usually in qualifying for the finals. This meant that it was not nominated for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf.

But already in the following season, their performance stabilized again, so that they could participate in the 2006 Olympic Games in Pragelato home. In the sprint competition she won there the 19th Place. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan Genuin again reached the finals in the sprint competition and finished third in the final standings to 28th place. Surprisingly, the sprint specialist won in their use over the 10 km free - space distance with 12 her best result at a major international event. The 2007/08 season was to Genuins previous best World Cup season. While fourth place still gets his head scratched on a podium in the sprint in Rybinsk, she managed to ersprinten third place in Canmore. At the end of the season it ranked 14 overall in the sprint competitions. In the overall World Cup she was 29