Tina Weirather
Christina " Tina " Weirather ( born May 24, 1989 in Vaduz) is a Liechtenstein skier who also has Austrian citizenship. She is a member of the A - squad of the Liechtenstein Ski Federation ( CBF). Weirather is the daughter of two former alpine skier Harti Weirather and Hanni Wenzel.
Biography
2002 and 2004 in the giant slalom won Weirather the Trofeo Topolino and 2002 in the giant slalom at the Whistler Cup. In November 2004 she took at the age of 15 years for the first time participate in FIS races. In January 2005, the first use followed in the European Cup. Also in 2005 Weirather took in Bormio at the World Ski Championships and arrived in the Super- G Rank 31, 2006, it belonged to the five-member team from Liechtenstein at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin and came in the Super- G at No. 33 on March 7, 2006, she was in Mont Sainte -Anne Junior World Champion in Giant Slalom.
On 15 December 2006 Weirather brought in the super-combined at the Reiteralm as 22 points in the first World Cup; after the super -G it was still located in second place. This performance could confirm with the 8th place in the super combined in Altenmarkt on 14 January 2007. On 7 March 2007 she secured in the same place the Junior World Championship title in the downhill. When training for the World Cup downhill in Lenzerheide she came hard on 13 March 2007 to fall and suffered a tear of both cruciate ligaments.
Her comeback in the World Cup, she celebrated on 28 December 2007 the giant slalom in Lienz, where it turned out in the first race after a strong meantime. Overall, they played in the 2007/ 08 season five World Cup races, but was able to achieve as a result of only 19 in the giant slalom in Spindleruv Mlyn. On 10 March 2008 Weirather crashed in the giant slalom training in Pitztal hard and ripped again, the cruciate ligament in his right knee. Since almost the entire summer training turned out, they came the following winter mainly in the European Cup and FIS races used. Only in March they played a World Cup giant slalom in Ofterschwang, in which they did not qualify for the second run. At the Junior World Championships 2009 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she finished second in the giant slalom.
In the 2009/10 season Weirather was again regularly in the World Cup at the start. On 22 January 2010, she reached her best World Cup result so far in the Super- G in Cortina d' Ampezzo with seventh place. A day later, she crashed heavily on the descent of Cortina d' Ampezzo and suffered another torn ACL. You had to take a break from competition over one year and could therefore not participate in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. In March 2011, she made her comeback with a victory in the FIS giant slalom at Götschen.
In the World Cup Weirather returned to the beginning of the 2011/12 season with a twelfth place in the giant slalom in Soelden back. On 2 December 2011 she drove in the downhill at Lake Louise with the start number 40 on the second place and achieved their first World Cup podium. With two more podium finishes and six top-5 results in this discipline, she reached the second place in the downhill World Cup behind Lindsey Vonn. In addition, it was with two podium finishes seventh in the super - G World Cup. The 2012/13 season began similarly well for Weirather, with a third place in the departure of Lake Louise. However, on December 2, 2012, she crashed at the same place in the Super G and withdrew it a strong edge of a shoe bruised. She had to pause two weeks, and did not reach the rest of the season by far, the level of the previous winter. Somewhat surprisingly, under these circumstances was her first World Cup victory they won on March 1, 2013, the Super G in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. Weirather is thus the first daughter of a former World Cup winner, who was also celebrating a World Cup victory.
In the 2013/14 season Weirather joined before the world leaders in the discipline of giant slalom. On 1 December 2013, it achieved the first podium in a World Cup giant slalom (Third in Beaver Creek ), on December 14, she won the Super G in St. Moritz their first victory of the season. Weirather won on 22 December in Val d'Isere for the first time a giant slalom and led a week the overall World Cup standings on. With consistently good performances ( total of nine podium places) she established herself in front of the 2014 Winter Olympics as one of the most mentioned favorite indoor medal for profits. In the Olympic opening ceremony in Sochi led as flag bearer at the Liechtenstein delegation. In the third downhill training but suffered a bone bruise on his right shin head and none could deny the Olympic race because of the pain. After further medical examinations end of February they had to stop it before the season.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Turin 2006: 33 Super -G
World Championships
- Santa Caterina 2005: 31 Super -G
- Schladming 2013: 13 Downhill, Giant Slalom 27
Junior World Championships
- Bardonecchia 2005: 17 Super -G, Downhill 29, 41 Giant Slalom
- Quebec 2006: 1st Giant Slalom, 5 exit
- Altenmarkt / Flachau 2007: 1st exit, 2nd Giant Slalom, Super-G 2
- Formigal 2008: 7 Giant Slalom
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2009: 2 Giant Slalom
World Cup
- Season 2011/12: 9 Overall World Cup, 2nd downhill World Cup, 7 Super -G World Cup
- Season 2012/13: 6 Downhill World Cup, 9th super- G World Cup
- 2013/14 season: 5th overall World Cup, 3rd Super - G World Cup, 4th downhill World Cup 10 Giant Slalom World Cup
- 16 podiums, including three wins:
European Cup
- Season 2005/ 06: 7 Super-G standings, 8 exit summary
- Season 2006/ 07: 5 Super -G standings
- 3 podiums, including two victories: