Virginie Faivre

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Virginie Faivre Freestyle skiing
Virginie Faivre 2014
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday September 6, 1982
place of birth Lausanne
size 155 cm
Weight 47 kg
Career
discipline halfpipe
society SC Blonay
status resigned
End of career December 2016
Medal table
World championships 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Inawashiro 2009 halfpipe
gold Voss 2013 halfpipe
gold Kreischberg 2015 halfpipe
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 22, 2003
 World Cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 2012/13 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 1. ( 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2012/13)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 2 7th 3
 
Virginie Faivre at a show race during the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games

Virginie Faivre (born September 6, 1982 in Lausanne ) is a former Swiss freestyle skier . She specialized in the halfpipe discipline. Her greatest successes are the world championship titles in 2009, 2013 and 2015 as well as three victories in the world cup discipline. Occasionally, she also participated in slopestyle competitions.

She is President of the Organizing Committee of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.

biography

Faivre comes from Saint-Légier in the canton of Vaud . After attending high school and alongside her sports career, she completed two distance learning courses, including in sports management. At the beginning of her sports career she was an alpine ski racer . She took part in FIS races and national championships, but failed to achieve any notable success. In April 2000, she contested her last alpine race. In 2002 she traveled to Canada and came into contact with the freestyle scene in Whistler , whereupon she began to practice this sport professionally.

In the first ever halfpipe world cup competition, which took place in Saas-Fee on November 22, 2003 , Faivre took 2nd place, followed by another 2nd place three and a half months later. In the 2004/05 World Cup season, she finished second three times. It was almost four years before she won the next podium, until she celebrated her first World Cup victory on January 11, 2009 in Les Contamines . She secured a second place in the halfpipe discipline and won the gold medal at the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro . She was on the podium twice in the 2010/11 World Cup season, and once in 2011/12.

With a victory in Krasnaya Polyana , a second and a third place, Faivre again secured the halfpipe discipline ranking in the 2012/13 season. At the 2013 World Cup , she won the world title for the second time. Due to a back injury, she was barely able to train before the 2013/14 season, but still achieved fourth place at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the 2015 World Cup in Kreischberg, she won the world title for the third time.

On December 17, 2016, Faivre announced her resignation. The reason she cited was that she was still suffering from multiple concussions that she had suffered over the course of her career. «My health is now the top priority. It is difficult to catch up with the training deficit on the world elite. I don't want to and can no longer risk everything. "

Faivre at the opening of the Youth Olympic Games

Faivre has been President of the Organizing Committee of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne since January 2019 . She succeeded Patrick Baumann , who died in October 2018.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

Faivre achieved twelve podium places in the World Cup, two of them victories:

date place country
January 11, 2009 Les Contamines France
February 16, 2013 Krasnaya Polyana Russia

More Achievements

  • Winner European Open (Halfpipe 2009, 2011; Slopestyle 2006, 2007, 2008)
  • Winner World Ski Invitational (Slopestyle 2007)
  • Winner Taravana Freestyle (2007)
  • Winner Saas-Fee Ride (2003, 2007)
  • Winner Rip Curl Freeski (Halfpipe 2003)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Your heart beats Olympic. Desktop 12, January 5, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Virginie Faivre resigns. Swiss-Ski , December 17, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Virginie Faivre new President of the Organizing Committee Lausanne 2020. Lausanne 2020, January 3, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Faivre, Virginie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne