Mona Løseth

Mona Løseth ( born April 11, 1991 Ålesund ) is a Norwegian alpine skier. Your best disciplines slalom and giant slalom. Like her older sister Nina is also a member of the Norwegian National Ski Team Mona. The oldest of the three sisters, Lena, ended her career in 2011.

Biography

Løseth won in April 2006 the slalom at the Whistler Cup and launched in November of the same year for the first time in FIS races. The following February, she was Norwegian junior champion in giant slalom and was in March in the Norwegian squad for the Junior World Championships in Altenmarkt. Since the 2007/2008 season, she performs regularly at the European Cup.

4 January 2009 Løseth drove the slalom in Zagreb her first World Cup race, but could not qualify for the second run itself. Her first World Cup points she reached already in her second race, which she denied in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in the same month. She won the slalom rank 22 and has been subsequently nominated then by the Norwegian Association for the World Championships in Val d'Isere. There she went in the slalom at the start, however, different from the first pass. At the Junior World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she was in slalom and giant slalom Fourth and a medal missed only by a few hundredths of a second.

On December 5, 2009 Løseth won a European Cup races, a super combination in Kvitfjell first time. The best ever World Cup result succeeded Løseth 16 January 2010 with rank 12 in the Giant Slalom in Maribor. At the Junior World Championships in 2010 she became world champion in giant slalom, won the silver medal in the slalom and also secured the gold medal in the combined score. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 they reached number 13 in the super combined and ranked 21 in the Super -G. In the slalom and giant slalom she did not come to the finish. In March 2010 she became Norwegian champion in super-G and giant slalom after they had already won last year the title in the slalom. In addition, it was 2010 Norwegian Junior Champion in slalom.

In April 15, 2010 Løseth suffered a broken right leg. As of January 2011, she again took part in competitions, but on 10 February 2011 she broke her for the second time the right lower leg, followed by a further twelve month break from racing followed. Since February 2012, she is back in the European Cup at the start, since the 2012/2013 season again in the World Cup. On January 26, 2013 for almost three years, they classified with number 21 in the giant slalom in Maribor for the first time in the World Cup rankings. At the end of the winter 2012/2013, she won the Norwegian championship in slalom and giant slalom. In the 2013/14 season they reached the World Cup three placings in the top 30 and took in Sochi for the second time at the Olympic Winter Games, where she finished 16th in the slalom and 27th in giant slalom.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010: 13 Super Combined 21 Super G, Giant Slalom 25
  • Sochi 2014: 16 Slalom, Giant Slalom 27

World Cup

  • 4 rankings in the top 20

European Cup

  • Season 2009/ 10: 3 Super - Combination Evaluation
  • 2012/13 season: 8th overall, 4th slalom standings, 9 Super Combination Evaluation
  • 2013/14 season: 5th overall, 6th slalom standings, 9 Giant Slalom rating
  • 9 podiums, including 4 victories:

Junior World Championships

  • Altenmarkt 2007: 46 Giant Slalom
  • Formigal 2008: 22 Slalom, 37 Giant Slalom, Super-G 62
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2009: 4th slalom, 4 Giant Slalom, Super-G 26
  • Mont Blanc 2010: 1 Giant Slalom, 1st combination, 2 Slalom, Super-G, 9, 15 departure
  • Crans -Montana 2011: 16 Super -G

Other successes

  • 6 Norwegian championship (slalom in 2009, 2013 and 2014, Super - G 2010, Giant Slalom 2010 and 2013 )
  • 6 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Innichen Italy Levi, Finland Finland
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