Andrea Rothfuss

Andrea Rothfuss
nation	Germany
birthday	20th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Freudenstadt
size	164 cm
job	Student
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination
society	VSG Mitteltal
status	active
Medal table
Winter Paralympics 1 × 9 × 3 × World championships 3 × 10 × 6 ×
Winter Paralympics silver Turin 2006 Giant slalom silver Vancouver 2010 slalom silver Vancouver 2010 Giant slalom bronze Vancouver 2010 Departure bronze Vancouver 2010 Super G gold Sochi 2014 slalom silver Sochi 2014 Giant slalom silver Sochi 2014 Super combination silver Pyeongchang 2018 Departure silver Pyeongchang 2018 Super G silver Pyeongchang 2018 Super combination silver Pyeongchang 2018 Giant slalom bronze Pyeongchang 2018 slalom Alpine World Ski Championships for the disabled gold High 1 2009 Team event bronze High 1 2009 Departure bronze High 1 2009 Giant slalom bronze High 1 2009 slalom bronze High 1 2009 Super combination gold Sestriere 2011 Departure gold Sestriere 2011 slalom silver Sestriere 2011 Super combination silver Sestriere 2011 Team event bronze Sestriere 2011 Super G bronze Sestriere 2011 Giant slalom silver La Molina 2013 Departure silver La Molina 2013 Giant slalom silver La Molina 2013 slalom silver La Molina 2013 Super combination silver Panorama 2015 Departure silver Panorama 2015 Super G silver Panorama 2015 Giant slalom silver Panorama 2015 Super combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 2005  Overall World Cup 1. (2012/13)  Downhill World Cup 1. (2012/13)  Super G World Cup 1st (2011/12)  Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (2011/12, 2012/13)  Slalom World Cup 1. (2012/13)  Combination World Cup 2. (2011/12)
last change: March 11, 2018

Andrea Rothfuss (born October 20, 1989 in Freudenstadt ) is a German ski racer . Your association is the VSG Mitteltal. In 2009 she was named Disabled Athlete of the Year. Rothfuss competes in the starting class Standing Skiers: LW 6 / 8-2. She has been part of the customs ski team since April 2017 .

Career

Andrea Rothfuss grew up in Loßburg in the Black Forest and learned to ski there at the age of six in the Loßburg ski club. She has been missing her left hand since birth. In 1997 she started skiing with non-disabled children in the newly founded club racing group. In the same year she drove her first race in the non-handicapped area. She got into disabled sports, initially only as a swimmer and athlete. At the Bavarian Championships in Oberammergau in 2000, she started her first disabled ski race. Then she was invited to various viewing courses of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) and trained with the newly founded junior team. In the 2001/02 season she was included in the D-squad (i.e. national squad) of the DBS. She had first successes on a national level, then also in the European and World Cup.

When she was 16 at the time, she took part in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin . There she won the silver medal in the giant slalom and finished in the slalom the fourth and in the Super-G on the 5th Place.

Since then, Rothfuss has been a member of the national team and the A-squad of the DBS. The following year she won the giant slalom classification in the World Cup for the first time. At the 2009 World Championships in High1 ( South Korea ), she achieved bronze medals in downhill , super-combined , giant slalom and slalom. In the team competition held for the first time, she and her teammates won the gold medal and her first world championship title.

In the next year, as in previous years, she finished 2nd in the overall World Cup ranking. At the Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver , she won silver medals in slalom and giant slalom as well as bronze medals in downhill and super-G. In the super combined, she retired after a driving error in the super G.

In the summer of 2010 she passed her Abitur at the nutritional science high school of the Luise Büchner School in Freudenstadt. For sporting reasons, she then decided to study sociology in Innsbruck and moved to Austria.

In the 2010/2011 season she again reached 2nd place in the overall World Cup and in all disciplines. In January 2011 she won her first individual title at the World Championships in Sestriere (Italy), and with it the gold medals, in downhill and slalom. In the Super-G and in the giant slalom, she won the bronze medal. She won the silver medals in the super combination and in the team event.

In February 2013, Rothfuss won four silver medals (downhill, super-combined, giant slalom, slalom) at the World Championships in La Molina (Spain), each behind the French Marie Bochet .

At the opening of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi (Russia), Rothfuss was the flag bearer of the German team. After she could not finish her runs in the downhill and super-G, she won her first Paralympic gold medal in slalom on March 12, 2014 .

In March 2018, Rothfuss won the first medal for Germany at the Paralympics in Pyeongchang . She took silver in the downhill and had to admit defeat only to French Marie Bochet (1: 30.30 min) in the standing category in 1: 32.53 minutes. She also won the silver medal in the Super-G, again just behind Bochet. She won further silver medals in the super combined behind the Canadian Mollie Jepsen and in the giant slalom behind Bochet, and she also took bronze in the slalom behind Bochet and Jepsen.

Awards

• 2005: Junior athlete - special award for disabled sport - of the year 2005
• 2009: Disabled Athlete of the Year 2009
• 2014: Silver bay leaf

Web links

• Website of Andrea Rothfuss
• Official website of the Paralympic Movement: Andrea Rothfuss

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Rothfuss on www.zoll.de
2. ↑ Paralympic Winter Games: ski racer Rothfuss carries German flag. SPIEGEL ONLINE, accessed on March 7, 2014 .