Sabine Ginther
Sabine Ginther ( born February 3, 1970 in Ehenbichl ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. It was six times Junior World Champion and in the season 1988/1989 European Cup overall winner, won six World Cup races and reached in winter 1990/1991 second place in the overall World Cup. After several injuries she ended her career in 1993.
Biography
Ginther began at the age of four years with the skiing and in 1983 and 1985 Austrian in their respective age class student champion in giant slalom. After their inclusion in the squad of the Austrian Ski Federation ( Austrians ) they celebrated their participation in the Junior World Championships, the first major international successes: She won in 1987 in Hemsedal, the combination and was second in the downhill, reaching 1988 in Madonna di Campiglio three first places in Super -G, giant slalom and combined, and a second place in the downhill and won in 1989 Aleyska another two gold medals in the downhill and Super -G. She worked her way at the same time also in the European Cup to the top zoom, won in the 1988/1989 season, the total as well as the departure rating and was second in the giant slalom standings. In addition, it was 1989, two times the Austrian Junior Champion in downhill and combined.
Her debut in the World Cup were Ginther on 26 November 1988 at the Super - G on the Planai in Schladming, in which she went with start number 50 to 14th and immediately won the first World Cup points. She came regularly from now on in the World Cup for use, denied 1989/1990 their first full World Cup season and went on 28 January 1990 as a tenth of the giant slalom of Santa Caterina for the first time in the top 10. The breakthrough of the world leaders she succeeded in the 1990/1991 season, as they later each second in downhill and combination of Bad Kleinkirchheim was before the turn of the year third in the combination of Morzine and two weeks. Ginther counted so at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach -Hinterglemm already one of the great Austrian medal hopes, but had no precious metal. She won in the downhill sixth and retired in the second round of the combination slalom after they had won the Combined Downhill. In the World Cup they celebrated after the World Cup their first victories when she won in March 1991, two runs in Lake Louise and Vail, which they reached the second place in both the World Cup and in the downhill World Cup.
Four more World Cup victories were added in the season 1991/1992: Ginther won in mid-January slalom and combined in Schruns and early February departure and combination in Grindelwald. Shortly thereafter, however they arrived at training the departure of the 1992 Winter Olympics in a heavy crash, which inter alia the second lumbar burst and severe knee injuries suffered themselves. After the forced break Ginther reached next winter 1992/1993 initially no further top results until it third in the departure from home in the Enns Valley was once again on the podium on 22 January 1993. After another injury ahead of the 1993 World Championships she was little later at the age of 23 years her retirement from professional racing known. Ginther graduated from the State of ski instructors, ski trainer married Thomas Schädle and was mother of two.
Achievements
World Championships
- Saalbach -Hinterglemm 1991: 6 Departure
Junior World Championships
- Halls / Hemsedal 1987: 1 combination, 2nd exit, 4 Giant Slalom, Slalom 9
- Madonna di Campiglio 1988: 1 Super -G, Giant Slalom 1, 1 combination, 2nd downhill, slalom 8
- Aleyska 1989: 1st exit, first Super -G, Giant Slalom 5
World Cup
- Season 1990/1991: 2nd overall World Cup, 1st Combined World Cup, 2nd downhill World Cup, 8 Super - G World Cup
- Season 1991/1992: 6th overall World Cup, 1st Combined World Cup, 7 Downhill World Cup
- Season 1992/1993: 6 Combined World Cup
European Cup
- Season 1988/1989: 1 Total European Cup, 1st exit rating, second giant slalom standings, 6 slalom rating
- Season 1989/1990: 4 Super -G standings
- 5 wins: