Tanja Poutiainen

Tanja Poutiainen Tuulia ( born April 6, 1980 in Rovaniemi ) is a Finnish former ski racer. It is among the world's best athletes in the disciplines of giant slalom and slalom. She won three discipline ratings in the World Cup as well as four medals at world championships and Olympic Games. This makes it the most successful Finnish alpine skier ever.

Biography

Poutiainen won the Trofeo Topolino 1995. In 1997, she became Junior World Champion in slalom and third in the Super -G. That same year she played her first World Cup race. At the Junior World Championship in 1999 she reached the third place in the giant slalom. The first podium in a World Cup race she reached in the 2001/ 02 season. The final breakthrough of the world leaders she succeeded in the 2003/04 season, when she won her first World Cup slalom in Levi in front of his home crowd.

The World Ski Championships 2005 in Santa Caterina, she was twice second; in the giant slalom behind the Swede Anja Parson and in the slalom behind Janica Kostelic of Croatia's. In the 2004/05 season the Finn also celebrated their biggest success to date, winning the giant slalom and the slalom World Cup. While the slalom World Cup prematurely secured before Janica Kostelic, the Giant Slalom World Cup until the final race in Lenzerheide between you and Anja Parson was open. Although Parson led before the last race with a fairly comfortable point lead, but this could not benefit in their favor due to a botched run.

The 2005/06 season was for them initially with little success and they could not match the performance of the pre-season by far. This changed at the Olympic Winter Games 2006: In the giant slalom, which was held in Sestriere in dense fog and heavy snow, she won the silver medal behind Julia Mancuso. In the season 2006/ 07 Poutiainen second in giant slalom World Cup behind Nicole Hosp was in the 2007/ 08 season the Finn drove a good rankings. In addition to winning the Snow Queen Trophy in Zagreb she came frequently in the top 10. In the overall standings, she was eighth.

In the 2008 /09 season Poutiainen won with one win and four other podium finishes the giant slalom World Cup for the second time; in the slalom World Cup it was like last year in fourth. At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere - its already the seventh - Poutiainen won the bronze medal in the giant slalom and the slalom. Two World Cup victories celebrated the Finn in the 2009/2010 season, but in the World Cup they came for the first time in three years, not among the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, she was sixth in the slalom and 13th in giant slalom.

In the season 2010/2011 Poutiainen took second place in the slalom World Cup and finished third in the giant slalom World Cup with a victory and five podiums. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen she went - as in the Olympics last year - ranked sixth in the slalom and 13th in giant slalom. Slightly less successful was the World Cup Winter 2011 /2012. Poutiainen drove in two slalom races on the podium, but stayed for the first time in six years without a win. In the slalom World Cup they finished sixth in the giant slalom World Cup they fell back to 13th. During the 2012/2013 season she managed two slalom podium. In the second last giant slalom of winter, on 9 March 2013 Ofterschwang, they retired to a torn ACL. They subsequently announced to want to start in the following winter again. Best result in its last season was a 12 Plätz. On March 16, 2014, it denied their last World Cup race.

Poutiainen not only impresses with its fast, but also safe driving practices. From January 4, 2007 to 18 March 2011, she remained in 70 World Cup races in a row without a loss.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Nagano 1998: 18 Slalom, Giant Slalom 26
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 11 Giant Slalom
  • Turin 2006: 2 Giant Slalom, Slalom 6
  • Vancouver 2010: 6 Slalom, Giant Slalom 13
  • Sochi 2014: 12 Slalom, Giant Slalom 14

World Championships

  • Sestriere 1997: 17 Slalom
  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 14 Giant Slalom, Slalom 24
  • St. Anton 2001: 13 Giant Slalom
  • St. Moritz 2003 10 Slalom, Giant Slalom 23
  • Santa Caterina 2005: 2 Giant Slalom, Slalom 2
  • Åre 2007: 14 Giant Slalom, Slalom 14, 4 team competition
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 3 Giant Slalom, Slalom 3
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 6 Slalom, Giant Slalom 13
  • Schladming 2013: 4th Slalom, Giant Slalom 15

Junior World Championships

  • High -Ybrig 1996: 22 Slalom, Giant Slalom 26
  • Schladming 1997: 1 slalom, 3 Super G, Giant Slalom 5
  • Megève 1998: 5 Slalom, Giant Slalom 13, 30, Super -G
  • Pra Loup 1999: 3 Giant Slalom

World Cup ratings

  • Season 2001/ 02: 7 World Cup slalom, giant slalom World Cup 10
  • Season 2002/ 03: 3 Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2003/ 04: 9 Overall World Cup, 4th slalom World Cup, 5th giant slalom World Cup
  • Season 2004/ 05: 5 Overall World Cup, 1 World Cup Slalom, Giant Slalom World Cup 1
  • Season 2005/ 06: 5th World Cup slalom, giant slalom World Cup 8
  • Season 2006/ 07: 7 Overall World Cup, second giant slalom World Cup, 6th slalom World Cup
  • Season 2007/ 08: 8 Overall World Cup, 4th World Cup Slalom, Giant Slalom World Cup 4
  • Season 2008/ 09: 5 Overall World Cup, 1 giant slalom World Cup, 4th slalom World Cup
  • Season 2009/ 10: 5 World Cup giant slalom, slalom World Cup 9
  • Season 2010/ 11: 7 Overall World Cup, 2nd World Cup Slalom, Giant Slalom World Cup 3
  • Season 2011/12: 6 Slalom World Cup
  • 2012/13 season: 5th World Cup slalom

World Cup wins

  • 48 podiums including 11 victories:

European Cup

  • Season 1996/ 97: 8 Giant Slalom rating
  • Season 1997/ 98: 6 giant slalom rating
  • Season 1998/99: 8 overall, 5 giant slalom rating
  • 12 podiums, 5 wins

Other successes

  • 21 Finnish championship titles: Giant Slalom: 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Slalom: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Super -G: 1996, 2009
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