Olivia Nobs
Olivia Nobs ( born November 18, 1982 in La Chaux -de-Fonds ) is a Swiss snowboarder. It starts only in the discipline snowboard cross.
Olivia Nobs closed the school with the Baccalauréat en Langue modern age and since 2001 has been a professional athlete. She still lives in La Chaux -de-Fonds.
World Cup
Nobs began her international career in 2001 at a FIS race in Tignes. There she was able to place the same in fifth and repeated this rank also her World Cup debut a week later at the same place. These results confirmed it in the course of the 2002 season, as they celebrated their first victory in January 2002, in Sestriere ( Bardonecchia ) she beat Maria Tichwinskaja and Heidi Krings. Another podium in Bad Gastein and five top ten places in six races brought her already in her first year in fifth place in the World Cup season standings of the snowboard cross. Even better, she cut off the following season in 2003, here she was behind Karine Ruby Second in the World Cup Saisonertung. During the season they could two races in Berchtesgaden and in Arosa, winning, next she succeeded five times a ride in the top ten, including a second place in Bad Gastein. Both in the 2004 season and the 2005 season succeeded Nobs no other place on the podium, a fourth place in the Swedish Tandådalen remained their best placement. Only in the Olympic winter of 2006, she freed herself from her dip in form and could recover with two second and a third-place strength. Despite the disappointing eleventh place for them at the Olympics, the season was fourteen with space in the overall World Cup and the fourth rank of the discipline World Cup a great success. The following season they did not occur at the World Cup, but placed himself in 2008 again several times in or near the top ten. Until the World Cup they could enter 2009, two results in the top ten in the season, after they had entered only in December in Arosa in the season.
Olympic games
Nobs qualified besides the later Olympic champion Tanja Frieden and Mellie Francon for the Swiss team in boardercross for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She could prove to eleventh place. In Vancouver 2010, she won the bronze medal in snowboard cross.
World Championships
In January 2003 she took part in the snowboard world championships, finished there as well in 2005 17th place. After the season results rather surprisingly, she was Vice World Champion in snowboard cross at the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in the Korean Gangwon. You just had to Norway's Helene Olafsen bow, her roommate Mellie Francon and the Canadian Maelle Ricker could refer to the third and fourth places.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
- Bronze medal in Snowboarder Cross