Nicole Gius

Nicole Gius ( born November 16, 1980 in Schlanders ) is a former Italian alpine skier from South Tyrol. She was in the meantime one of the strongest slalom skiers of the Italian national ski team. Between 1999 and 2009 she won seven times the Italian championship in slalom in the World Cup she scored in slalom and giant slalom four podiums.

Biography

Gius was the first time at the age of two years under the guidance of her father on skis. At seven, she denied her first children's race. To exercise the sport she joined the ski club Ortler. There she led her coach Günther Stadler clean up in the Italian ski team, of which she was from 1996. 1994 Gius won the giant slalom and Super -G at the Whistler Cup. The first FIS races she went in December 1995. During summer training 1996, she retired to a tibia and fibula fracture, whereupon they had to miss the entire next season. In January 1998, she then played her first race in the World Cup. Just one year later, she landed the slalom of St. Anton for the first time in the top ten. In the same year she also won their first Italian championship title. Then stagnated their services. Finally she suffered in 2000 in his left knee cruciate ligaments.

With the change to the CS Esercito, the sports group of the Italian military, Gius revived her career in 2001 new. In 2002, she reached at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City ranked ten in the slalom. It was followed in 2002 /03 their most successful World Cup season: With six races she could place in the top ten. Here she managed the third place in the slalom in Semmering her first podium finish. At the end she was in the slalom standings with the seventh best-placed of the Italian team. In the following two seasons they remained, despite some good results behind their expectations. Finally, she missed qualifying for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

In the World Cup Winter 2006/07 Gius reported back with strong performances. In the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, she drove to second place. Over the next two years, she managed one podium. 2006/ 07 and 2007/ 08 they were each tenth in the Giant Slalom World Cup. After she had already participated in five World Cups since 1999, but it had not yet reached a top result, drove Nicole Gius in 2009 in their 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere in fifth place in the slalom. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 she reached eighth place in this discipline. In the World Cup were in the 2009/10 season also two eighth places their best results, however, in the winter of 2010/11 they did not have a 15 square. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she was 20th in the slalom.

In the World Cup season 2011/12 Gius did not come as a 20th place out, which is why it was re- used more and more in the European Cup. Before the winter of 2012/13 it was no longer considered for the national squad and drove in the sequence only sporadically race in the World Cup last modified on January 4, 2013 in Zagreb. End of March 2013, it announced its resignation from the top-level sport.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Salt Lake City 2002: 10 Slalom, Giant Slalom 19
  • Vancouver 2010: 8 Slalom, Giant Slalom 20

World Championships

  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 22 Slalom
  • St. Anton 2001: 26 Slalom
  • St. Moritz 2003 23 Slalom
  • Santa Caterina 2005: 14 Slalom, Giant Slalom 22
  • Åre 2007: 12 Slalom, Giant Slalom 20
  • Val d'Isere 2009: slalom 5
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 20th slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Megève1998: 6 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 25, 35 departure
  • Pra Loup 1999: 6 Slalom, Giant Slalom 21
  • Quebec 2000: 6 Slalom, 9 Giant Slalom, Super-G 18

World Cup

  • Season 2002/ 03: 7 Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2006/ 07: 10 Giant Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2007/ 08: 10 Giant Slalom World Cup
  • 4 podiums

European Cup

  • Season 1997/ 98: 7 Giant Slalom rating
  • 5 podiums

Other successes

  • 7 Italian slalom champion title (1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 )
  • 7 wins in FIS races
Italy Slalom skiing 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup Municipality of Kranjska Gora FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007
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