Marlies Schild
Marlies Schild (born 31 May 1981 in Admont, Styria ) is an Austrian alpine skier. The Saalfeldnerin with previously 35 slalom victories in this event the most successful skier in the World Cup history. Her younger sister Bernadette is also a ski racer, her older brother Joseph from 1998 to 2005 Member of the Austrian Ski Team.
Biography
Shield denied her first race at the age of six years. With ten years she was admitted to the Salzburg student cadres, according to the elementary school she attended the Alpine branch of the main school in Zell am See. She then moved after passing the entrance examination in the Skigymnasium in Stams. In 1998, she succeeded inclusion in the Austrian Ski Federation junior team. About FIS and European Cup races shield worked his way into the World Cup. Since 2002 it belongs to the cadre of the Austrian Ski Federation.
Early in her career, she preferred downhill race. At age 19, but she already had five knee operations and ACL tears behind and then focused on the less dangerous disciplines giant slalom and slalom. At times she competed in all disciplines in the World Cup. Your best discipline is the slalom, but also in the Giant Slalom and Super Combined she has ever won a World Cup victory, as well as second-place finishes in downhill and super -G.
At her first appearance at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City 2002 shield was eliminated in the first round of the slalom. She won the bronze medal in the Alpine combined at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, the slalom silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina.
At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin won the Shield Combination silver medal and a few days later, the slalom bronze medal. Also at the 2007 World Championships in Åre they could broaden their medal collection. Along with Benjamin Raich, Renate Götschl, Fritz Strobl, Mario Matt and Michaela Kirchgasser won the gold medal plate in the team competition. In the individual races she won the silver medal in the slalom and the bronze medal in the super combined.
In the seasons 2003/2004 and 2005/2006 plate were each second in the slalom standings of the World Cup. For its services, Marlies Schild 2006 behind their former teammate Michaela Dorfmeister ( double Olympic champion in Turin ) was elected to the second place in the election Austrian Female Athlete of the Year.
In the 2006/2007 season, she won a total of eight World Cup races (seven of nine slaloms and a super combined ) and received her first two crystal balls for victory in the World Cup slalom and combined World Cup. In the overall World Cup of the season 2006/ 07 they finished behind her teammate Nicole Hosp took second place; at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide led them to impressive results in the speed competitions ( 2nd place in the downhill, 3rd place in the Super -G) two races before the end the overall standings, but had to relinquish the lead after a failed slalom and they could in the final giant slalom, the Nicole Hosp won as well as the slalom, no longer recover. In the 2007/2008 season shield won five slaloms and won again the World Cup Slalom for themselves. Many of her victory she went out with a big lead.
On 9 October 2008 she came in giant slalom training on the Rettenbachferner heavy crash and withdrew it a comminuted fracture of the tibia and fibula and a fracture of the shin bone in his left leg to. Because of this, they could throughout the 2008/2009 season deny any race. In her comeback in Finland Levi on 14 November 2009 she won the 6th place in the slalom. A few weeks later, she won her first victory in the slalom after her severe injury on 29 December 2009 in Austria Lienz already. From this time she was 2 years at any FIS slalom, in which she has come to the finish on the podium, including at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she won the silver medal, and at the World Cup 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, where she became world champion in slalom and also in the team competition won the silver medal. This series was completed on 10 March 2012 with a 6th place in the slalom of the Aare. In the disciplines of downhill and Super -G Marlies Schild is not started since her accident.
In the World Cup season 2010/2011 she won six of nine slalom race in two more she left. Only at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, before it had been decided for the third time slalom World Cup winner, she had to admit defeat and Tina Maze was second. In the season 2011/2012 Marlies Schild decided the first five slalom competitions in some superior style of its own. After a failure in Kranjska Gora, they also decided the slalom in Soldeu for themselves. With a third place in the eighth of the ten races of the season in Ofterschwang it secured for the fourth time winning the slalom World Cup. In 2012 she was elected to the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year.
On December 20, 2012, plate pulled in a fall in the slalom training in Åre, Sweden to an internal ligament tear in his right knee and had to undergo surgery. Healing was faster than expected and shield was already two months after her accident on skis again. On February 16, 2013, it took part in the slalom of the World Cup in Schladming, finishing in 9th place. Because again occurred knee problems they renounced this season on more races.
On November 16, 2013 started the slalom in Levi plate again in the World Cup. On 17 December the same year she put in Courchevel with her 34th career slalom success the record of the Swiss alpine skier Vreni Schneider a; at the same time she released Tanja Poutiainen from the oldest slalom World Cup winner. On 29 December 2013, it chose in Lienz with her 35th slalom victory for the sole record holder in this discipline.
On February 21, 2014 the sign occupied 2nd place in slalom at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and again managed to secure the silver medal in 2010 thus to Vancouver.
Marlies Schild since 2004 has been romantically involved with the ski racer Benjamin Raich.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Turin 2006: 2 combination, 3rd slalom, giant slalom 17
- Vancouver 2010: 2 Slalom
- Sochi 2014: 2nd Slalom
World Championships
- St. Moritz 2003: 2nd slalom, 4 combination
- Bormio 2005: 3 combined, 14 giant slalom
- Åre 2007: 1st team competition, 2 Slalom, 3rd Super Combined
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 1 Slalom, 2nd team competition, 8 Giant Slalom
- Schladming 2013: 9 Slalom
World Cup
- Season 2002/ 03: 5th World Cup slalom
- Season 2003/ 04: 2nd Slalom World Cup
- Season 2004/ 05: 8 Overall World Cup, 3rd World Cup slalom, 9 Combined World Cup
- Season 2005/ 06: 6 Overall World Cup, World Cup Slalom 2nd, 4th Combined World Cup
- Season 2006/ 07: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1 World Cup Slalom, 1st Combined World Cup
- Season 2007/ 08: 5 Overall World Cup, 1st slalom World Cup, 5th Combined World Cup
- Season 2009/ 10: 15th overall World Cup, 3rd World Cup slalom
- Season 2010/ 11: 6 Overall World Cup, 1st slalom World Cup
- Season 2011/12: 8 Overall World Cup, 1st slalom World Cup
- Season 2013/14: 3rd slalom World Cup
World Cup wins
A total of 68 podiums, 37 wins:
Junior World Championships
- Pra Loup / Le Sauze 1999: 6 exit 20 Super -G, Giant Slalom 22
European Cup
- Season 2000/ 01: 8 slalom rating
- 8 podiums including 3 victories:
Other successes
- 5 times Austrian Champion in slalom: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010 and 2011
- 15 wins in FIS races
Awards
- 2012: Austrian Sportswoman of the Year