Anna Ottosson

Anna Ottosson
nation	Sweden
birthday	18th May 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Frösön , Sweden
size	164 cm
Career
discipline	Giant slalom , slalom
society	Östersund Frösö SLK
status	resigned
End of career	April 14, 2007
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Turin 2006 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Are 2007 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut February 18, 1995  Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 15th ( 2006/07 )  Super G World Cup 33rd ( 2002/03 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 4. ( 1999/2000 )  Slalom World Cup 9th (2006/07)  Combination World Cup 12. ( 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 1 3 1  slalom 0 1 0

Anna Ottosson (born May 18, 1976 in Frösön ) is a former Swedish ski racer . She specialized in the disciplines of giant slalom and slalom .

biography

Ottosson won the Trofeo Topolino in 1991 . She has competed in the Alpine Ski World Cup since 1995 and was one of the world's best technicians. In the years 1998 to 2000 she reached four podium places. She won her only World Cup race on January 23, 2000, the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In March 2002 she came second in the Altenmarkt giant slalom . In the following years she was regularly among the top fifteen in the World Cup, but it took five years until she was back on the podium in March 2007 at the Zwiesel slalom - second behind Marlies Schild and ex aequo with Šárka Záhrobská .

Similar to the World Cup, her results are also presented at World Championships and Olympic Games , where she was among the top 10 eight times. So far, the best result has been the 5th place in slalom at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz . But at the 2006 Winter Olympics , she set the fastest time in the second run in the giant slalom and won the bronze medal. At the home world championship in 2007 in Åre she won the silver medal in the team competition with the Swedish team . After the 2006/07 season she ended her career.

successes

Olympic games

• Nagano 1998 : 7th giant slalom, 10th slalom
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 9th giant slalom, 13th slalom
• Turin 2006 : 3rd giant slalom, 18th slalom

World championships

• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 10th giant slalom, 15th slalom
• St. Anton 2001 : 9th giant slalom
• St. Moritz 2003 : 5th slalom, 15th giant slalom, 17th super-G
• Santa Caterina 2005 : 12th giant slalom
• Åre 2007 : 2nd team competition, 7th giant slalom, 16th slalom

World cup

• Season 1997/98 : 9. Giant Slalom Score
• Season 1998/99 : 5. Giant Slalom Score
• Season 1999/2000 : 4. Giant Slalom Score
• Season 2006/07 : 9. slalom standings, 6. Giant Slalom Score
• 6 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
January 23, 2000	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Giant slalom

European Cup

• Season 1997/98 : 5. Giant Slalom Score
• 4 podium places, including 1 victory

Junior World Championships

• Monte Campione 1993 : 13th giant slalom, 19th combination, 31st slalom, 57th super-G
• Lake Placid 1994 : 5th giant slalom, 25th Super-G

More Achievements

• 9 Swedish championship titles :
  • Slalom: 1999, 2000, 2003
  • Giant slalom: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006
  • Super G: 2005
  • Combination: 2006
• 20 victories in FIS races (from 1994/1995)

Web links

• Anna Ottosson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Anna Ottosson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Anna Ottosson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )