Christine Hargin

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Christine Hargin Alpine skiing
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 24th January 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Stockholm , Sweden
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom ,
combination , freeride
society Huddinge SK
status active
End of career 2004 (Alpine skiing)
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 19, 2000
 Overall World Cup 102nd ( 2001/02 )
 Slalom World Cup 44th (2001/02)
last change: January 12, 2018

Christine Hargin (born January 24, 1980 in Stockholm ) is a former Swedish ski racer who is now active in freeride .

Career

In November 1995 the 15-year-old competed in the first FIS ( Fédération Internationale de Ski ) races in Sweden in the Ski Europe Cup . In 2003 she became national runner-up in slalom.

In 2004 Christine Hargin ended her alpine skiing career and turned to freeride off-road.

In 2012 she won the World Championship as part of the Freeride World Tour (FWT). In 2015 she finished fourth in the Freeride World Tour behind the Austrian Eva Walkner .

Private

Her brother Mattias Hargin (* 1985) is also a ski racer and her second older sister Janette Hargin (* 1977) was also active in the World Cup and freeride.

Movies

In spring 2014 she started an Alaska expedition with her Austrian World Tour competitors Nadine Wallner and Eva Walkner . The film version of “Exploring Alaska” (director / script: Franz Hinterbrandner, Max Reichel), produced based on an idea by Eva Walkner, was shown in 2016 at the Freeride Film Festival in Vienna .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NORRØNA GETS FREERIDE QUEEN CHRISTINE HARGIN ON BOARD (November 20, 2012)
  2. ↑ Julia Schwarzmayr: Interview with Freeride World Champion Eva Walkner. freeskiers.net, October 19, 2016, accessed December 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hargin, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm