Matea Ferk

Matea Ferk ( born June 8, 1987 in Rijeka) is a Croatian alpine skier. It starts mainly in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom, participated in two Olympic Winter Games and World Championships and ran from 2004 to 2010 - with a two-year break due to injury - in the World Cup.

Career

Matea Ferk drove her first FIS races in March 2003. Between 2004 and 2006 she participated in the Junior World Championships, with a fifth place in the slalom in 2006 was their best result. From November 2004 Ferk started in the World Cup. However, they failed to qualify in any of her until January 2010 more than 20 World Cup races for the second round of the 30 best, which is why she stayed in her career without World Cup points. Even in races in Nor- Am Cup, she participated several times and reached it twice a place among the fastest 15 In the European Cup however, they went only a single race.

Ferks career was interrupted at the beginning of the 2006/2007 season due to a bad fall in Nor -Am slalom in Winter Park for almost two years. They suffered inter alia, a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial meniscus in his left knee. After surgery, she had to pause the entire season. Because of persistent pain in the injured knee, she had to again in July 2007 to undergo surgery. End of November 2007 she took, yet at a slalom race part, but after a further intervention could even in winter 2007/2008 incur no additional race. It was only in December 2008, she again took part in competitions.

At the World Championships and Olympic Winter Games, where Ferk had participated since 2005, she came in seven starts only twice to the finish. At the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina, she was 40th in the giant slalom and the slalom different from. Two losses in the slalom and giant slalom she had recorded at the Olympic Winter Games in 2006. After her injury she was disqualified in the slalom of the 2009 World Cup in Val d'Isere. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, it achieved a 34th place in the slalom again a result, while it turned out again in the giant slalom.

After the 2009/2010 season Ferk lost their squad membership in the Croatian Ski Federation, which is why she is now no longer in the World Cup or major events in use. Since the winter of 2010/2011 they will start for the ski team of Sierra Nevada College at University and FIS races in the United States.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Vancouver 2010: 34th slalom

World Championships

  • Santa Caterina 2005: 40 Giant Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Bardonecchia 2005: 21 Slalom
  • Quebec 2006: 5 Slalom, Super -G 41

Other successes

  • 2 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing Winter Olympic Games Winter Park (Colorado) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 Santa Caterina di Valfurva FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Croatian Radiotelevision
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