Belle Brockhoff

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Belle Brockhoff Snowboard
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday January 12, 1993
place of birth Melbourne
Career
discipline Snowboard cross
status active
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 16, 2010
 World Cup victories 4th
 Snowboard cross world cup 2. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Snowboard cross 4th 4th 4th
last change: April 10, 2020

Belle Brockhoff (born January 12, 1993 in Melbourne ) is an Australian snowboarder .

Career

Brockhoff has participated in the Australia New Zealand Cup since 2008. She has had 13 victories so far and won the snowboard cross classification in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 (as of the end of the 2019/20 season). She drove her first World Cup race in December 2010 in Telluride , which she finished in 36th place in the parallel giant slalom. Since the 2011/12 season she has only started in snowboard cross. In December 2012 she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup with third place in Montafon . At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham , she finished 13th. In her first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , she came in eighth place. In the 2014/15 season she achieved a top ten position in all snowboard cross races and ended the season in fifth place in the overall snowboard cross ranking. In January 2015, she took seventh place at the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . That same month she finished fourth at the Winter X Games in Aspen . In the 2015/16 season she came in eight participations, seven times in the top ten. She reached second place in Sunny Valley and Veysonnaz . In March 2016 she won her first World Cup victory in Baqueira-Beret and at the end of the season she finished third in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. In the following season, she won two World Cups and also came second once. As in the previous year, she finished third in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she came 11th. In the 2019/20 season, she came third with three and one second and one first place, and came second in the Snowboard Cross World Cup.

Personal

Brockhoff came out as a lesbian in 2013 and criticized the Russian legislation against "homosexual propaganda" in the course of her participation in the Winter Olympics in Sochi. With her outing, she wanted to support homosexual people in Russia.

World Cup victories

No. date place
1. March 20, 2016 SpainSpain Baqueira beret
2. December 16, 2016 AustriaAustria Montafon
3. 4th February 2017 BulgariaBulgaria Bansko
4th January 26, 2020 CanadaCanada Big White

Overall snowboard cross world cup placements

season space Points
2011/12 24. 570
2012/13 9. 1770
2013/14 12. 1360
2014/15 5. 1300
2015/16 3. 4460
2016/17 3. 4060
2017/18 40. 320
2018/19 - -
2019/20 2. 4100

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. L-MAG Online: These are the lesbian and bisexual Olympians in PyeongChang , February 11, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2018.