Carolina Ruiz Castillo

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Carolina Ruiz Castillo Alpine skiing
Carolina Ruiz Castillo, Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 2011
Carolina Ruiz Castillo in January 2011
nation SpainSpain Spain
birthday 14th October 1981 (age 38)
place of birth Osorno , Chile
size 169 cm
Weight 63 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
giant slalom
status resigned
End of career March 18, 2015
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Québec 2000 Giant slalom
bronze Verbier 2001 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut October 24, 1998
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 22. ( 2012/13 )
 Downhill World Cup 15th (2012/13)
 Super G World Cup 11. (2012/13)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 24. ( 1999/00 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 0 0
 Giant slalom 0 1 0
 

Carolina Ruiz Castillo (born October 14, 1981 in Osorno , Chile ) is a former Spanish ski racer . She specialized in the fast disciplines and won a world cup race .

biography

Ruiz's family moved from Chile to Spain shortly after she was born and settled in the Sierra Nevada . Ruiz skied for the first time at the age of four and competed in her first race at the age of nine. After success in Spanish youth races and international competitions, she was accepted into the Spanish youth development program in 1995 and trained in a sports boarding school in Saint-Nicolas-la-Chapelle in France . At the beginning of the 1997/98 season she was promoted to the Spanish B national team and was Spanish youth champion in slalom , giant slalom and in the combination as well as second in the Spanish championships for women. As a result, she rose to the senior national team at the age of 16.

Ruiz made her debut in the World Cup in October 1998 in Sölden . A year later, she finished 18th in the points for the first time in the giant slalom at Copper Mountain . At the end of February 2000 she was second in the giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in Stoneham, Canada . Two weeks later, she finally achieved the first World Cup podium of her career when she surprisingly finished second in the World Cup giant slalom in Sestriere . In the end she was only seven hundredths of a second behind the winner, Sonja Nef .

Ruiz Castillo was only able to confirm this performance a few times over the next few years. At the 2001 Junior World Championships in Verbier , she was third in the giant slalom and fourth in the Super-G. Her best result at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City was 15th place in the Super-G, and at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, 9th place in the same discipline.

Before the start of the 2003-04 season, Ruiz broke his fibula and injured his ankle. In the next two years she started mainly in FIS races , in the European Cup and in the South American Cup ; She only contested a few World Cup races. Since the 2005/06 season she has been regularly at the start in the World Cup. Ruiz took part in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he was 20th in the giant slalom. The best results at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina and at the 2007 World Championships in Åre were 15th in the Super-G and 20th in the downhill.

In the 2007/08 season, Carolina Ruiz Castillo reached 7th place in the Downhill from Aspen , 8th place in the first Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo and 10th place in the Downhill from Whistler Mountain for the first time since 2000 again in the top 10 World cup. The next winter, a seventh place in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo was her only top 10 result. At the 2009 World Cup in Val-d'Isère , she achieved 14th place in the Super-G and 19th place in the downhill. Their best results at the next major events were similar: 15th place in the downhill and 18th place in the Super-G at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 19th place in the downhill run of the 2011 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In March 2011, Ruiz Castillo finished ninth in the Super-G of Tarvisio for the first time in two years and was among the top ten in a World Cup race. After that, it took another two years before she achieved the next top 10 results in January 2013 with tenth and fourth places in the downhill and super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo. The fourth place in the Super-G was also the third best World Cup result of her career and the best since her only podium place almost 13 years earlier. On February 23, 2013, she surprisingly won the Méribel descent . This was their only World Cup victory and at the same time the first podium placement for the Spanish association in a World Cup speed discipline.

Ruiz Castillo announced her retirement from ski racing on March 18, 2015. She lives in Albolote in Andalusia .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 2 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
February 23, 2013 Meribel France Departure

European Cup

  • 5 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 22, 2012 St. Moritz Switzerland Departure

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 18 Spanish championship titles
    • Slalom 1999, 2007
    • Giant slalom 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009–2012, 2014
    • Super-G 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014
  • 6 wins in the South American Cup
  • 11 victories in FIS races

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personal data
SURNAME Ruiz Castillo, Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Osorno , Chile