Tanja Morel

Tanja Morel ( born October 4, 1975) is a Swiss Skeleton pilot.

Tanja Morel contests since 1995 competitions in the Skeleton. Since 1998, the Feldmeilenerin part of the national team of Switzerland. Their first World Cup races she contested in December 1997 in Winterberg, where she reached the 13th place. At the next World Cup at the beginning of the following year in Altenberg she came in eighth for the first time among the top 10 in 2005, she won in St. Moritz their first and only World Cup. In the season 1999/2000 she finished eighth place in the overall World Cup, 2003/ 04 she came to fifth place, 2004/ 05 to the Seventh and 2005/ 06 again on the eights.

2003 and 2006, both in St. Moritz, it reached its greatest successes and won bronze at the European Championships. 2004 and 2005 in Altenberg she reached the fifth, and seventh respectively. In 2003, she first participated at the World Championships in Nagano and was fourth. In 2004 and 2007 in Koenigssee in St. Moritz they missed out on a fourth World Cup medal again just barely. Peak in Morel's career was his participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where she finished in seventh place.

In the first Swiss Championship for Women Morel 1995 Third, as in 1999 and 2002. 2000 she won the title for the first time in 2004 and again in 2008 was followed by the title. 1996 and 2001, she was runner-up behind Ursi Valais. 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 she won second places respectively behind Maya Pedersen - Bieri. In all eleven previously discharged Swiss Championships Morel has ranked in the top three starters.

Morel is a certified Swiss Gymnastics and Sports Teacher Diploma II, ETH Zurich. From 1994 to 1999, she started for the Skeleton Club Zurich, since for the Zurich Bobsleigh. Your athletic trainer is David Mayer, her track coach Snorre Pedersen. After the fourth place at the 2007 World Cup Morel finished her international career and was now a full- time teacher at the school Küsnacht center, where she held only half a job by then.