Maria Höfl-Riesch

Maria Hoefl - Riesch (* November 24, 1984 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen as Maria Riesch ) is a former German ski racer. She was - her height of 1.81 m defiance - as an all-rounder and was in its active time of the most successful athletes. Among her greatest successes include the three Olympic medals at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi, winning the overall title of the Alpine World Cup in season 2010/11 and each a gold medal at the World Championships in 2009 and 2013. Added to the five-time winning a world Cup discipline standings and five junior world championship titles. In four out of five events they could win World Cup races. It is the main sergeant in the Federal Customs Administration, where she is a member of the Customs - Ski Teams. Her younger sister Susanne Riesch is still active skier.

  • 2.1 The Olympic Games
  • 2.2 World Championships
  • 2.3 Junior World Championships
  • 2.4 World Cup wins
  • 2.5 World Cup rankings
  • 2.6 European Cup
  • 2.7 German Championships

Biography

Junior time

Maria Riesch started at the age of three years with skiing. Two years later she became a member of the Ski Club Partenkirchen. After initial successes in regional children's race she drove in the 1998/99 season at the German school championships in second place. Here, the coach of the DSV on Riesch were attentive and took them for the following season in the C / D- squad of the Federation on. As a 15 - year-old she played her first FIS races in December 1999.

Your first assignment in the European Cup was followed three months later and in March 2000 they could decide for the first time a FIS race in itself. At the Junior World Championship 2001 in Verbier Riesch won the gold medal in the combination, the silver medal in the super -G and bronze in the downhill. Shortly afterwards, on 16 February 2001, she made her debut in the World Cup and drove in the Super G in Garmisch- Partenkirchen at number 20, the end of the season she was German champion in the downhill and super -G.

In the 2001 /02 season Riesch came only sporadically in the World Cup is used, the best result was again a 20th place. The main focus was on the European Cup: With five wins and three additional podium finishes she chose both the overall standings as well as the downhill discipline rating for themselves. Riesch won the gold medal in the Super -G and the silver medal in slalom at the World Junior Championship in 2002. She also defended the German downhill champion. In 2002 she was the Bavarian Sport Award was also awarded in the category " Outstanding young athlete ."

Riesch came in the 2002/03 season in the World Cup again increasingly used, often retired especially at the beginning of winter. On 22 December 2002, she succeeded in Lenzerheide in combination with location 3, the first World Cup podium. In March 2003, she also came in individual races the first time in the top ten. Also at the Junior World Championship 2003 in Serre Chevalier, she was successful. For the second time she was Junior World Champion in the combination it came up the bronze medal in the giant slalom.

Ascent to world leaders and injury worries

After leaving school in the summer of 2003, Riesch could now concentrate on skiing. During the season 2003/ 04 they could reduce their failure rate significantly. You binned regularly in the top ten and established himself in the alpine world leaders. On 30 January 2004 Riesch won her first World Cup victory in the downhill of the house in the Enns Valley, two days later, they double after the Super-G. Four weeks later, she won the World Cup slalom in Levi. In the overall World Cup they finished third and thus confirmed its all-round qualities. At the Junior World Championship 2004 in Maribor two more gold medals were added in downhill and giant slalom.

Then they had to contend with a large injury problems. In November 2004, she retired during training a shoulder fracture and had to pause for several weeks. On 21 December she went back to the start and drove in the Super- G in St. Moritz to third place. On the Super -G on January 12, 2005 at the Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d' Ampezzo they crashed heavily and suffered a torn ACL on his right knee. Thus, the season was ended prematurely.

The preparation for the 2005/ 06 season was far from optimal. When training in New Zealand in September 2005 Riesch suffered an injury to the head of the tibia, a month later, a fracture of the metacarpal bone in Sölden added. As a result, the season began with rather mixed results. On December 10, 2005 Riesch crashed in the Giant Slalom from Aspen and developed serious injuries on his left knee (cruciate ligament, meniscus injury, cartilage injury and bone compression). Thus their Olympic season had ended after only six races.

World champion and double Olympic gold medalist

In the season 2006/ 07 Riesch celebrated her comeback. Somewhat surprisingly, they won the first downhill of the winter in Lake Louise. Although this was their only podium finish this season, but it has established itself with several top 10 results again near the world's best. At the 2007 World Championships, seventh place was their best result in the super combined. Added to this was the third German downhill champion. In the 2007 /08 season it was finally back to its former strength. She won two races, she finished second and third three times. In addition, she won the World Cup discipline rating in the super combined and super -G. In the last race of the season, it was still repressed by Nicole Hosp from second to third place overall.

During the 2008/ 09 season Riesch was able to maintain their level of performance in the speed disciplines. They also became the series champion in slalom than she could win four World Cup races in a row in this discipline. At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, she won the gold medal in the slalom and finished fourth in the super combined. On March 7, she stood in Ofterschwang before the last race of the season determined as the winner of the World Cup Slalom 2008/ 09.

In the 2009/10 season Riesch scored 14 podium finishes, which again resulted in second place in the overall standings. With a win and two second and third places it was again determined as the winner of the slalom discipline standings. The highlight of the season was the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. At the Olympic race, held in Whistler, Riesch won on February 18, the gold medal in the super combined, after she had become the eighth day before departure. Another eighth place followed on 21 February in the Super- G, on 25 February a tenth place in the giant slalom. In slalom, she won a second gold medal on February 26. As a first starter at the Winter Olympics, she managed to drive in all five Alpine ski races in the top ten. Federal President Horst Köhler awarded her on 30 April 2010 for their achievement, the Silver Laurel Leaf. 19 December 2010 she also received the award for Sportswoman of the Year, she sat down narrowly to biathlete Magdalena Neuner by.

Knapp won the duel for the overall World Cup

The first slalom of the season 2010/2011 she finished second, followed by three more second places before her first slalom win of the season in Flachau. Even more successful she was in the downhill by winning the first two races in Lake Louise. In its fifth downhill race in Cortina d' Ampezzo, she was victorious, which she had moved out a considerable lead on Lindsey Vonn, of the Queen of the three previous winter. In its far weakest discipline giant slalom she showed greatly improved with numerous top ten results and missed just before New Year at the Semmering their first win in second behind Tessa Worley just barely.

At the World Cup in their home town of Garmisch -Partenkirchen Riesch won the first race, the super -G, the bronze medal. In the second competition, the super-combined, in which it was considered a top favorite, she had to settle for 11th place is weakened flu. On the descent, she won again bronze in the slalom, she finished fourth. At the end of the World Cup season to himself Rieschs points ahead continuously decreased in the overall standings, Vonn since launched a comeback. At the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, its competitor, took over after the departure of the lead with 27 points ahead. With weather factors failed Super -G Riesch was fourth in the slalom and moved three points clear again past Vonn. Since the final giant slalom was canceled, Riesch was no longer obtain. Thus, it was the third German after Rosi Mittermeier (1975 /76) and Katja Seizinger ( 1995/96, 1997/98), who won the overall World Cup.

It was the closest decision in the World Cup so far in percentage terms, scarce so than in the 2008/2009 season, as Hoefl - Riesch scored the two points between Benjamin Raich and Aksel Lund Svindal their overall victory with 1,728 points, 1,009 points Svindal 2009.

Another world title

In spring 2010 announced Riesch and her manager Marcus Hoefl that they are romantically involved. On April 14, 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, the civil ceremony, on April 16, the church wedding in Going am Wilden Kaiser. Since then, she launched under the name Hoefl - Riesch.

In the 2011/12 season Hoefl - Riesch could not keep the very high level of the previous winter. Especially at the beginning they showed unusual weakness, besides, she had recorded four losses in their previous favorite slalom discipline. The first win of the season left to the end of January 2012 to wait ( super combined in St. Moritz ). In Krasnaya Polyana they then won the " dress rehearsal " of the Olympic downhill by 2014. Åre still followed by a slalom victory. At the end of the season she was third in the overall standings.

Hoefl - Riesch decided at the beginning of the 2012/13 season the slalom in Levi by itself, but reached in the next three months only one other place on the podium. Although she established herself in second place overall, but lost it against the towering Tina Maze quickly to the floor and lay the end of January already back more than 800 points. After she retired in 2013 after the other in a World Cup slalom shortly before the World Cup twice, it was on February 8, 2013 Schladming before Maze World Champion in the Super Combined. Two days later, she won the bronze medal in the downhill, like two years ago in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. The team handed it on February 12, 2013 also for bronze. In the last World Cup race after the World Cup was followed by three more podium finishes. In the final statement of the World Cup season she finished second with a gap of 1.313 points on Tina Maze.

Third Olympic victory and withdrawal

The 2013/14 season was a total of nine podium finishes, including three victories in the downhill, again much better for them. With the third place in the downhill in Altenmarkt Hoefl - Riesch was the first runner who scored in both the slalom and the downhill of 25 podium finishes in World Cup races. At the same time she passed with a total of 77 podium finishes Katja Seizinger as the best German runner at this statistics. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 she was at the opening ceremony flag bearer for the German team. In the super combined was Olympic champion in super-G, she won the silver medal, and in the slalom, she finished fourth. In the overall World Cup she was clearly in the lead before the Olympic Games; then you moved Anna Fenninger with top ranks in the downhill and giant slalom ever closer, so that for the World Cup Final, a match between the two runners who had gone home, each with a gold and a silver medal from Sochi offing. On March 12, 2014, Hoefl - Riesch the small crystal secured despite a heavy crash in the last downhill of the season in Lenzerheide in the downhill World Cup. Because of the injuries sustained in this fall injuries they had to end the season prematurely and give up the fight for the overall World Cup standings. On 20 March 2014, it announced its End of career.

From 2008 to 2014, ie seven consecutive years, Hoefl - Riesch was always in the top three of the overall World Cup standings, which only Gustav Thöni, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Katja Seizinger and Benjamin Raich so far succeeded but her.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010: 1 slalom, first super combined, downhill 8, 8 Super -G, Giant Slalom 10
  • Sochi 2014: 1 Super Combined, 2 Super -G, Slalom 4, 13 departure

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003: 5 combination, exit 17
  • Åre 2007: 7 super combined, downhill 9, 10, Super -G, Giant Slalom 23
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 1 Slalom, Super Combined 4, 8 Super -G, Downhill 10, 28 Giant Slalom
  • Garmisch Partenkirchen 2011: 3rd exit, third Super -G, Slalom 4, 11 Super Combined
  • Schladming 2013: 1 Super Combined, 3rd exit, third team, 9 Giant Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Quebec 2000: 24 Slalom, Giant Slalom 37
  • Verbier 2001: 1st combination, 2 Super -G, 3rd exit, 13, Giant Slalom, Slalom 14
  • Tarvisio 2002: 1 Super -G, Slalom 2nd, 6th departure
  • Puy Saint -Vincent 2003: 1 combination, 3 giant slalom, downhill 4, 5 Slalom
  • Maribor 2004: 1st exit, 1 giant slalom

World Cup wins

Maria Hoefl - Riesch reach World Cup race 80 podiums including 27 victories:

World Cup rankings

Hoefl - Riesch won five discipline ratings in the World Cup: Combination and Super-G in the 2007/ 08 season, slalom in the seasons 2008/ 09 and 2009/10 and exit in the 2013/14 season. In the 2010/11 season they also won the overall World Cup.

European Cup

  • Season 2001/ 02: overall winner, 1st exit rating, 7 super-G standings, 8 slalom standings, 9 Giant Slalom rating
  • 8 podiums, 5 wins

German Championships

Hoefl - Riesch is five-time German champion:

  • Departure ( 2001, 2002 and 2007)
  • Super -G ( 2001 and 2004)

Personal

Hoefl - Riesch is a niece of Bob Olympic champion Wolfgang Zimmerer. In 2004 she made ​​a guest appearance in an episode of the TV soap opera Marienhof. In 2008 she played herself in episode 666 of the telenovela storm of love. From 2006 to 2008, she was romantically involved with ice hockey player Marco Ludwig.

Her father Siegfried sits on the board of the 1st FC Garmisch -Partenkirchen, in which her ​​brother Matthias playing football.

Hoefl - Riesch and her husband started a website in 2011 ' maria.com.de ' and brought its own winter collection on the market. In October 2012 Hoefl - Riesch published her autobiography. It bears the title straight: the ups and downs of my life.

Maria Hoefl - Riesch supports organizations A Heart for Children and Innocence in Danger.

As a student, she went to the same class as Felix Neureuther.

Awards

2004:

  • Junior Sportswoman of the Year

2009:

  • 3rd place in the selection Athlete of the Year
  • Winter Star of the Bavarian Radio in the category Best winter athlete

2010:

  • Silver Bay Leaf by Federal President Horst Köhler
  • Sportswoman of the Year

2011:

  • 3rd place in the selection Athlete of the Year

2013:

  • 3rd place in the selection Athlete of the Year
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