Bettina Schweighofer

Bettina Schweighofer
nation	Austria
birthday	June 1, 1975
place of birth	Salzburg
size	163 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	UPS Ebenau
status	resigned
End of career	2000
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European championships 2 × 3 × 0 × Junior World Championship 0 × 2 × 3 ×
Grass ski world championships silver Asiago 1993 Super G silver Gaal 1999 slalom  European Grass Ski Championships silver Kálnica 1994 Giant slalom gold Forni di Sopra 1996 slalom gold Forni di Sopra 1996 combination silver Forni di Sopra 1996 Giant slalom silver Forni di Sopra 1996 Super G  Grass ski junior world championships bronze Gutenstein 1990 combination bronze Kálnica 1992 Super G silver Gaal 1994 slalom silver Gaal 1994 combination bronze Gaal 1994 Super G
Placements in the European Cup
All European Cup 3rd (1991, 1998)

Bettina Schweighofer (born June 1, 1975 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian grass skier . She became a two-time European champion , won several medals at world championships and junior world championships as well as four Austrian championship titles .

Career

Schweighofer started alpine skiing at an early age and was accepted into the Salzburg national team at the age of eleven. However, as the results she had hoped for did not materialize, she started grass skiing in 1990. In the same year she won the bronze medal in combination at the Junior World Championships in Gutenstein and in the 1991 season she already reached third place in the overall ranking of the European Cup . At the Junior World Championships in 1992 she won a bronze medal again, this time in the Super-G. In her first European championship , she narrowly missed the podium twice in the same year and was fourth in both slalom and combined.

At the 1993 World Cup , the then 18-year-old from Salzburg won the silver medal in the Super-G behind Ingrid Hirschhofer . The next year at the Junior World Championships she won two silver medals in slalom and combined, as well as bronze in super-G. At the European Championships in 1994 she came second in the giant slalom, again behind Hirschhofer, and a year later she came fourth in the Super-G at the World Championships . In 1995 Schweighofer won the first of a total of four Austrian championship titles .

Schweighofer celebrated her greatest successes at the 1996 European Championships in Forni di Sopra . She won the slalom and the combination and came second in the giant slalom and the super-G. The next year she missed the medal ranks twice at the 1997 World Championships in Müstair and took fourth place in slalom and combined. In the 1998 European Cup season she came third overall for the second time. Schweighofer won her last medal at the 1999 World Championships in Gaal , where she came second in the slalom. In the 2000 season, the Salzburg native ended her career at the age of 25 due to pregnancy.

successes

World championships

• Asiago 1993 : 2nd Super-G
• Kálnica 1995 : 4th Super-G
• Müstair 1997 : 4th slalom, 4th combination
• Gaal 1999 : 2nd slalom, 6th giant slalom

European championships

• Faistenau 1992 : 4th slalom, 4th combination
• Kálnica 1994 : 2nd giant slalom
• Forni di Sopra 1996 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 2nd giant slalom, 2nd super-G

Junior World Championships

• Gutenstein 1990 : 3rd combination
• Kálnica 1992 : 3rd Super-G
• Gaal 1994 : 2nd slalom, 2nd combination, 3rd Super-G

European Cup

• 3rd overall: 1991 and 1998
• 4th overall: 1995

Austrian championships

• Schweighofer was four times Austrian champion : 1 × slalom (1999), 2 × giant slalom (1998 and 1999), 1 × Super-G (1995)

literature

• Austrian Ski (ed.): Austrian ski stars of A-Z . Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 409 .