Selina Heregger

Selina Heregger ( born April 29, 1977 in Lienz ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. It belonged from 1994 to 2005 the squad of the Austrian Ski on, won at the 2001 World Championships bronze medal in the downhill and reached two podium finishes in the World Cup.

Biography

Heregger started as a three year old with the skiing and came by her father to her home village ski club deer in Carinthia. After secondary school in Lesachtal she attended the Skihandelsschule Schladming. After her first of three Austrian Youth Champion titles, it was included in the squad of the Austrian Ski 1994, which they drove their first European Cup races in the winter 1994/1995 and at the Junior World Championship 1995 came into use. In the 1995/1996 season Heregger reached the first podium in the European Cup, which they finished fourth in the overall European Cup and the giant slalom discipline competition was won by equal points with Barbara Milani and Andrine Flemmen. At the Junior World Championships in 1996 in high -Ybrig she was with two gold medals in downhill and combination as well as a silver medal in the giant slalom, the successful participant. She came into this winter and the first two races in the World Cup - their debut on 20 December 1995 in the Super G in Veysonnaz - but remained in the stricken field.

After the good results of the European Cup last year Heregger came in winter 1996/1997, first in the world cup regularly used. However, you could never score and was therefore set back from mid-January, back in the European Cup, where she scored numerous top 10 results, but hardly podium. The few World Cup inserts the next two years were with rankings beyond the top 30 again unsuccessfully, to Heregger surprisingly reached the eighth place in the departure of St. Moritz on 5 March 1999 and thus won her first World Cup points. After this first World Cup success Heregger came in the 1999/2000 season continues primarily in the European Cup for use where they could significantly improve their results compared with previous years and with three wins and eight other podium places the decided overall and the giant slalom rating for themselves. In the second half of the season they started again several times in the World Cup, where they could now regularly place in the points and tenth in the super -G of Innsbruck reached her second top-10 result.

From the 2000/2001 season Heregger was integral part of the Austrian World Cup team. Among other things, with two other top - 10 finishes in mid-January in Cortina d' Ampezzo (eighth in the Super -G and ninth in the downhill ) to Heregger secured a place in the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg, in which they unexpectedly the reached third place in the downhill and thus behind Michaela Dorfmeister and Renate Götschl made ​​for an Austrian triple victory. In the World Cup combination Heregger was also started, but there she was disqualified in the first slalom passage out. The following season, 2001/2002 Heregger reached by other top - 10 finishes in the World Cup two podiums, as they exit the Second and Third of the combination of Åre was the beginning of February. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Heregger occupied in the same month the sixth place in the downhill and eleventh in the combination only in the giant slalom she left.

In the 2002/2003 season but Heregger fell far behind. Their only result in the top 20 was the 15th place in the Super G in Cortina d' Ampezzo, after which it was again used increasingly in the European Cup. Due to injury, had Heregger then next winter 2003/2004 from mid-December to pause. Then they scored in the 2004/2005 season only a few points in the World Cup, but still a victory in the European Cup, before she finished her career with the end of winter. Heregger began training as a masseuse and opened the Café Selina in deer.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Salt Lake City 2002: 6 departure, 11 combination

World Championships

  • St. Anton 2001: 3rd exit

Junior World Championships

  • Voss 1995: 14 Giant Slalom, Downhill 29
  • High -Ybrig 1996: 1st exit, 1 combination, 2nd Giant Slalom, Super-G, 5, 27 Slalom

World Cup

  • Season 2001/2002: 7 Combined World Cup, 8 downhill World Cup
  • 2 podiums

European Cup

  • 1995/1996 season: 4 Total European Cup, 1 giant slalom rating
  • 1999/2000 season: 1 Total European Cup, 1 giant slalom standings, third Super-G standings, fifth exit summary
  • Season 2002/2003: 4 Super -G standings
  • Season 2004/2005: 4 Super -G standings
  • 23 podium finishes, including 4 victories:

Awards (excerpt)

  • 2001: Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
Alpine skiing combined World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 Dellach im Drautal Hoch-Ybrig 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Villars-sur-Ollon Sierra Nevada (Spain) Italy
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