Anja Blieninger
Anja Blieninger 
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 Germany
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| birthday | June 15, 1981 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | ||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||||
| society | TSV Altenau | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2010 | ||||||||
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Anja Blieninger (born June 15, 1981 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German ski racer . She specialized in the technical disciplines of giant slalom and slalom .
biography
Blieninger stood on skis for the first time at the age of two and a half. Trained by her father, she drove to her first victory in a dwarf race at the age of five. In December 1996 she contested her first FIS race . A cruciate ligament tear with meniscus damage, which she suffered at the beginning of the 1997/98 season, interrupted her career. Blieninger competed in her first European Cup race as a 17-year-old in January 1999 and made her debut in the World Cup in February 2001 at the slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At first it had no resounding success. In the 2002/03 season a cruciate ligament tore again and Blieninger did not return to the competition until November 2003.
Blieninger experienced a first high point of her career in the 2004/05 European Cup . Between mid-January and early March 2005, she placed in the top ten in seven races and celebrated her first and only European Cup victory in the Lenggries slalom . At the end of the season she was fourth in the overall standings and third in the slalom classification. In December 2004 she moved up to the DSV World Cup squad and got her first World Cup points with 21st place in the giant slalom in Semmering . In January 2006 she achieved her best World Cup results in the successive races in Zagreb - Sljeme and Maribor with 14th and 12th place. With these achievements, she qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in Turin , but a week before the start of the Games, she suffered a broken right wrist, a ligament injury on her back and a bruised skull while retracting in Ofterschwang , which is why she was out for the rest of the season .
The next serious injury followed in October 2007 when Blieninger broke his left shin while training on the Hintertux Glacier . At the beginning of the 2008/09 season she returned to the competition, but in January 2009 Blieninger suffered another cruciate ligament rupture. In the 2009/10 season she had no injuries and won two World Cup points with two 21st places in the slaloms of Aspen and Maribor. In the following winter of 2010/11, another serious injury meant the end of Blieninger's career. She suffered her fourth cruciate ligament tear and further knee injuries in the European Cup Slalom in Gressoney on December 10, 2010 , after which she had to end her career for health reasons.
successes
World cup
- 2 placements among the best 15
European Cup
- 2004/05 season : 4th overall ranking, 3rd slalom ranking, 8th giant slalom ranking
- 4 podium places, including 1 victory (slalom in Lenggries on January 20, 2005)
Junior World Championships
- Verbier 2001 : 23rd descent, 32nd giant slalom
More Achievements
- German runner-up in giant slalom 2005
- 3 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Anja Blieninger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Anja Blieninger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Portrait - Anja Blieninger (GER). ( 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. magazin.skiinfo.de, March 24, 2006, accessed December 20, 2011.
- ↑ Anja Blieninger wants to get back on the slopes. ( 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. magazin.skiinfo.de, January 4, 2008, accessed December 20, 2011.
- ↑ Ski racer Blieninger suffers cruciate ligament rupture. focus.de, January 29, 2009, accessed December 20, 2011.
- ↑ Skier Anja Blieninger was seriously injured again. merkur-online.de, December 15, 2010, accessed December 20, 2011.
- ↑ Special award for Peter Fischer. Garmisch Ski Club, May 9, 2011, accessed December 20, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Blieninger, Anja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany |