Birgit Heeb

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Birgit Heeb Alpine skiing
nation LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Liechtenstein
birthday 14th October 1972 (age 47)
place of birth Mauren , Liechtenstein
size 159 cm
Weight 50 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom
society Unterländer winter sports club
status resigned
End of career March 28, 2003
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 15, 1991
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 30. (1999/2000)
 Super G World Cup 48th (1995/96)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 6. (1998/99)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 1 1 3
 

Birgit Heeb-Batliner (* 14. October 1972 in Moors as Birgit Heeb ) is a former Liechtenstein skier . She specialized in the giant slalom discipline and was able to win a world cup race.

biography

Heeb first attracted attention at the Junior World Championship in 1991 when she finished tenth in the Super-G . On December 15, 1991, she competed in her first World Cup race , the Super-G in Santa Caterina , but could not classify herself as 50th in the points. She took part in her first Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992 and was 20th in the combined. In 1993 she competed at the World Championships in Morioka and the following year at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . There she reached eleventh place in the giant slalom.

The first World Cup points followed on November 26th, 1994 with a great fourth place in the Park City giant slalom . She was able to repeat this result shortly afterwards in Vail . In this 1994/95 season she finished tenth in the giant slalom discipline. Then she was able to achieve top ranks in the giant slalom in the World Cup. At the 1996 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , she was seventh in the giant slalom and ninth at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano .

On November 19, 1998, the first podium in the World Cup at the giant slalom in Park City followed with third place. There were also further top ten placements and at the end of the 1998/99 season sixth place in the giant slalom World Cup . At the 1999 World Championships in Vail she was twelfth in her specialty after a serious mistake in the second round. In the following season 1999/2000 she reached second place behind Anna Ottosson in the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo and was able to take third place twice on the podium ( Lienz 1999 and Bormio 2000). She finished seventh in the giant slalom discipline. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton , she surprisingly came fifth in the giant slalom after a rather poor season performance.

The first and only World Cup victory followed in their last season 2002/03 on November 21, 2002 at the giant slalom in Park City. She won the race ahead of Alexandra Meissnitzer and Janica Kostelić . At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , she was tenth in the giant slalom. In March 2003 she announced her retirement from active ski racing.

Heeb has been married to the journalist and politician Alexander Batliner since autumn 2001 and has two children, a son and a daughter.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

date place country discipline
November 21, 2002 Park City United States Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 1 victory in the European Cup (giant slalom in Arosa 2002)
  • 1 victory in the Nor-Am Cup (giant slalom in Beaver Creek 1998)
  • 3 victories in FIS races since 1995 (2 × giant slalom, 1 × Super-G)

Awards

Heeb was named Liechtenstein Sportswoman of the Year eight times (1994, 1995 and 1997 to 2002).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athlete of the year 1970-2011 ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Heeb, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heeb-Batliner, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Moors