Sophie Rodriguez

Sophie Rodriguez (born 7 July 1988 Échirolles, Isère ) is a French snowboarder. It starts mainly in the halfpipe, sometimes in snowboard cross.

Career

Sophie Rodriguez won was nine years old in the 1997/1998 season already their first title at the French championships, the "chicks" in the halfpipe and snowboard cross, in the following season addition in parallel competition and a year later, on top of the combination. By 2006, they remained dominant in their respective age group in France. The first national championship in the seniors they took in 2003 in the combination and in March 2004 in Valloire in the halfpipe. From 2001, she appeared internationally in FIS races. Your first Junior World Championships they contested as the youngest participant in February 2003, the victory of the American Lindsey Jacobellis before Silvia Mittermüller in Prato Nevoso she was fourteenth, at the same time the second World Youth Championships. A month later she made her debut in Serre Chevalier in the World Cup with a second place behind the Austrian Nicola Pederzolli and before Paulina Ligocka from Poland. The 2003/2004 season began with a tenth place in Valle Nevado before in five FIS Race - consecutively won and in January 2004, also celebrated her first World Cup victory in Kreischberg in a competition - three times halfpipe and two times boardercross, in which she again was the youngest participant before their teammate Angèle Clavet. Three weeks later she achieved her greatest success up to that point, when she was Junior World Champion in the halfpipe in the Czech Klínovec. In March, she succeeded in the World Cup again the jump on the podium, this time as second in Bardonecchia.

Even more successful 2005 season developed for Rodriguez. It starts with a sixth place in Chile in the World Cup and was also the first to climb the podium as third parties in Nassfeld -Hermagor in December in boardercross. It was followed by the World Championships in Whistler Mountain. You could bring in respectable results in ninth place in both the cross with tenth place and the victory of Doriane Vidal in the halfpipe. For further five consecutive World Cup starts she was in the top ten with a second place in the halfpipe competition by Xingyu as a highlight. The end of the season formed the Junior World Championships, where she graduated as the most successful participant with the titles in snowboard cross and the halfpipe. With these results it achieved in the halfpipe discipline standings of the World Cup fifth place, three places better than last year. In the season standings of the boardercross it was nevertheless still fifteenth. In the same year she was at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Monthey first in the halfpipe. In the season 2005/2006 she was able to improve with third place again and reached number thirteen the overall standings in the discipline rating halfpipe. It started with a total of ten World Cup races. Two third places and four top ten results meant for Rodriguez to qualify for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin. There she could not boarding under the top ten as the second best Frenchwoman with a thirteenth place; Although she stopped in front of Cécile Alzina ( No. 19 ), but her older teammate Doriane Vidal managed eighth place. At the end of the season Rodriguez scored a victory in the snowboard cross and second place in the halfpipe at the French Championships.

In February 2007, after one of them rather mediocre beginning of the 2007 season, Rodriguez injured in boardercross at the World Cup in Furano. She had to the season with a torn ACL quit and focused during convalescence to graduate from high school. Only shortly before the turn of the year they could go into the 2007/2008 season, first in the Nor- Am Cup. But already the end of January in Bardonecchia she succeeded again the leap onto the World Cup podium, it was third and had two top ten places again a third rank in Calgary follow. In March 2008, in Valmalenco they dominated the halfpipe competition at winning her fourth Junior World Champion title as well as a short time later when winning the French league title. The 2009 season began with twelfth place in Cardrona (New Zealand ); a second place at the European Cup in Saas -Fee followed with three rank the first World Cup podium of the season in the same place. At the 2009 World Championships in Gangwon it ranked fourteen in the halfpipe, boardercross she was not at the start. In the Winter Universiade 2011 in Erzurum them down to second place in the halfpipe.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Turin 2006: 5th Halfpipe
  • Vancouver 2010: 13 Halfpipe

World Championships

  • Whistler 2005: 9 Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross 10
  • Arosa 2007: 16 Halfpipe
  • Gangwon 2009: 14 Halfpipe
  • La Molina 2011: 12 Halfpipe

Junior World Championships

  • Prato Nevoso 2003: 14 Halfpipe
  • Klinovec and upper Wiesenthal 2004: 1st Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross 29
  • Zermatt 2005: first snowboard cross, halfpipe 1
  • Valmalenco 2008: 1st Halfpipe

European Youth Olympic Festival

  • Monthey 2005: 1st Halfpipe

Winter Universiade

  • Erzurum 2011: second half-pipe

World Cup

European Cup

  • 3 podiums, including two victories:

Other successes

  • 3 places in the top 20 in the north -Am Cup
  • 8 wins in FIS races
Medal 2011 Winter Universiade FIS Snowboard World Cup July 7 Whistler (British Columbia) Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics 2006–07 FIS Snowboard World Cup Furano, Hokkaido 2007–08 FIS Snowboard World Cup Nor-Am Cup Chiesa in Valmalenco 2008–09 FIS Snowboard World Cup Saas-Fee 2009 FIS Snowboarding World Championships Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2011
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