Veronika Velez-Zuzulová

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Veronika Velez-Zuzulová Alpine skiing
Veronika Zuzulová in Aspen 2006
Veronika Zuzulová in Aspen 2006
nation SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia
birthday 15th July 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Bratislava ,  CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
size 169 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society Ski to Bratislava
status resigned
End of career March 10, 2018
Medal table
WM 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver St. Moritz 2017 team
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Sella Nevea 2002 slalom
European Ski Federation European Alpine Indoor Ski Championships
gold Amnéville 2009 Knockout slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut October 28, 2000
 Individual world cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup 11. ( 2016/17 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 32nd ( 2006/07 )
 Slalom World Cup 2. ( 2015/16 , 2016/17)
 Combination World Cup 37th (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 4th 13 10
 Parallel races 1 2 0
 

Veronika Velez-Zuzulová (* July 15, 1984 as Veronika Zuzulová in Bratislava ) is a former Slovak ski racer and four-time Olympian (2002, 2006, 2010, 2018). She specialized in the slalom discipline and won five world cup races.

biography

Junior years and first years in the World Cup

In 1997, Zuzulová won the Whistler Cup slalom and in 1999 the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup and the Trofeo Topolino . From the 2000/01 season she competed in the European Cup . She took second place in the slalom discipline ranking in 2002 and first place in 2004. Your first race in the Alpine Ski World Cup was the giant slalom in Sölden on October 28, 2000 . In November 2000, Zuzulová contested her first slalom and also got her first World Cup points. Her first major success was in 2002 when she became the junior world champion in slalom ahead of Maria Riesch in Sella Nevea , Italy . In the years that followed, slalom remained her specialty and she only occasionally started in giant slalom in the World Cup.

In the 2002 Åre slalom, Zuzulová placed in the top ten for the first time in the World Cup. On February 8, 2004 she achieved her first podium with third place in the Zwiesel slalom, and in the 2004/05 season she was among the top ten in the Slalom World Cup for the first time with three top ten results. In the 2005/06 season , however, a 16th place in the slalom of Špindlerův Mlýn was her best result. In the 2006/07 season she reached three third places in Kranjska Gora , in the Sierra Nevada and in Lenzerheide, as well as another four top ten places, with which she was fifth in the Slalom World Cup. Since that winter, she has regularly competed in giant slalom in the World Cup, but did not come close to her slalom results. She also took part in some super combinations in 2006 and 2007.

Establishment at the top of the world

At the Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 in Åre, Zuzulová was ninth in the super combined, 13th in slalom and 21st in giant slalom. The 2007/08 season was also successful. In the slalom, she finished in the top ten in every race and achieved three second and one third place. At the end of the season, Zuzulová finished third in the slalom discipline. In the following two years she was unable to build on these successes. In the winter of 2008/09 she was only twice in the top ten and in the 2009/10 season she was only able to score twice, as 15th each in the slaloms in Zagreb and Maribor . At the beginning of that winter, however, she won the only European indoor championship held . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Zuzulová finished tenth in the slalom.

In the 2010/11 season , Zuzulová was able to improve significantly in the World Cup. She finished in the top ten in seven slaloms, achieved two podiums and finished fifth in the Slalom World Cup. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was tenth in slalom and 15th in giant slalom. The 2011/12 World Cup season went just as well as the previous year . Zuzulová took the podium three times and missed her first World Cup victory in the Åre slalom by just a hundredth of a second. In the Slalom World Cup, she moved up one position to fourth. In addition, she won the slalom classification of the European Cup with three wins.

In April 2012, she married her French fitness trainer Romain Velez in Bratislava, and from the 2012/13 season she started under the name Velez-Zuzulová. After a total of 13 podium places (six times second and seven times third), she achieved her first World Cup victory on December 29, 2012 at the Slalom in Semmering ; it was the first ever victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup for Slovakia. Three days later she also won the City Event in Munich against Tina Maze .

Injuries, comebacks and resignation

At the beginning of October 2013 Velez-Zuzulová tore a cruciate ligament so that she had to take a break for the entire 2013/14 season. A year later it made its comeback and was immediately able to assert itself again at the top of the world. At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , she just missed a medal as fourth in the slalom. Then she was classified in World Cup races twice as second and once as third.

On January 12, 2016, she achieved her second World Cup victory in a slalom in Flachau . Three days later she also won the second slalom held in Flachau. She achieved her fourth victory in a World Cup slalom in the following season on January 3, 2017 in Zagreb. At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz , she won silver at the team event. It was her first ever medal at world championships. In her specialty, slalom, she started out as a favorite. After the first run she was in the promising third place, but in the second run she was eliminated after a threader .

While preparing for the 2017/18 season, Velez-Zuzulová suffered a burned cross in his right knee during snow training in Ushuaia, Argentina . She missed most of the season and initially assumed that she would miss the Olympic Games , as in 2014 . In January 2018, only four months after her cruciate ligament surgery , she made a successful comeback with twelfth place in the slalom in Lenzerheide , so that she could now compete in the Olympic slalom in Pyeongchang . There she finally took 17th place. She had previously announced that she would then end her career. On March 10th, she competed in the slalom of Ofterschwang in Slovak national costume, her last World Cup race.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup victories

  • 30 podium places, including 5 wins:
date place country discipline
December 29, 2012 Semmering Austria slalom
January 1, 2013 Munich Germany City event
January 12, 2016 Flachau Austria slalom
15th January 2016 Flachau Austria slalom
January 3, 2017 Zagreb Croatia slalom

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2001/02 68. 89 - - 23. 89 - -
2003/04 42. 192 - - 15th 192 - -
2004/05 37. 185 - - 9. 185 - -
2005/06 77. 47 - - 28. 45 44. 2
2006/07 19th 383 32. 28 5. 344 37. 11
2007/08 15th 511 41. 10 3. 501 - -
2008/09 65. 88 - - 22nd 88 - -
2009/10 94. 32 - - 36. 32 - -
2010/11 19th 370 42. 8th 5. 362 - -
2011/12 17th 390 42. 13 4th 377 - -
2012/13 12. 500 - - 3. 500 - -
2014/15 24. 303 - - 6th 303 - -
2015/16 13. 626 - - 2. 626 - -
2016/17 11. 565 - - 2. 565 - -
2017/18 102. 22nd - - 42. 22nd - -

European Cup

date place country discipline
March 12, 2002 Grand Bornand France slalom
December 21, 2003 Passo Tonale Italy slalom
February 23, 2004 Krompachy Slovakia slalom
December 18, 2005 St. Sebastian Austria slalom
December 19, 2006 Schruns Austria slalom
February 3, 2007 Bischofswiesen Germany slalom
March 14, 2007 Madesimo / Campodolcino Italy slalom
January 22, 2010 Melchsee-Frutt Switzerland slalom
February 12, 2010 Lenggries Germany slalom
March 13, 2010 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
December 6, 2011 Zinal Switzerland slalom
January 26, 2012 Melchsee-Frutt Switzerland slalom
February 2, 2012 San Candido Italy slalom

Nor-Am Cup

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Veronika Velez-Zuzulová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cez objektív: Svadobný deň lyžiarskej hviezdy Zuzulovej. sportky.sk, April 28, 2012, accessed November 1, 2012 (in Slovak).
  2. ↑ Veronika Zuzulova: First victory in the 145th attempt. skionline.ch, December 29, 2012, accessed on December 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Slovakia placed on the podium in the Alpine Ski World Cup. (No longer available online.) International Ski Association , formerly the original ; Retrieved December 30, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fis-ski.com  
  4. ↑ Hirscher second at the parallel race in Munich on ORF on January 1, accessed on January 1, 2013
  5. ↑ Velez-Zuzulova missed the entire season. kurier.at, November 27, 2013, accessed on March 25, 2015 .
  6. ^ Olympia again without Velez-Zuzulova. September 13, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  7. ^ FIS - Veronika Velez-Zuzulova. Germany today, January 28, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Olympia 2018: Veronika Velez-Zuzulová says "zbohom" after the Olympic slalom. skiweltcup.tv, February 13, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Velez-Zuzulová, Veronika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuzulová, Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava