Claudia Riegler (ski racer)

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Claudia Riegler Alpine skiing
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
birthday 16th July 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Ebenau , Austria
size 174 cm
Career
discipline Slalom, giant slalom
status resigned
End of career April 12, 2003
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 21, 1990
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 13. (1996/97)
 Slalom World Cup 2. (1996/97)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 4th 0 4th
 

Claudia Alice Riegler (born July 16, 1976 in Ebenau , Austria ) is a former New Zealand ski racer. Since she could not qualify for the Austrian national ski team , she started in the Ski World Cup for New Zealand , her mother's country of birth. Riegler mainly drove slalom , occasionally giant slalom .

biography

In her first season in 1994/95 , Riegler achieved valuable points for the slalom start list with an eleventh place in Maribor and a 13th place in Lenzerheide . In the 1995/96 season she achieved several top ranks before she celebrated the first World Cup victory of her career on March 10, 1996 in Narvik . Shortly before, she just missed the medal ranks in fourth at the 1996 World Ski Championships in the Sierra Nevada .

The 1996/97 season was Riegler's most successful season. This winter she won four World Cups. So she finished second in the Slalom World Cup behind Pernilla Wiberg . She was then unable to build on these successes. Too often, her risky driving style didn't pay off and she was eliminated from the races. Occasionally she was able to classify herself among the top ten of a World Cup slalom, most recently as third in December 2002 in Lenzerheide. Riegler contested her last World Cup race on March 15, 2003 in Hafjell near Lillehammer .

Riegler is married to the French downhill Olympic champion Antoine Dénériaz , the couple has two sons. After her skiing career, Riegler worked successively for the New Zealand ski association, Rossignol and Recco .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • Season 1995/96 : 8. Slalom Score
  • Season 1996/97 : 2. Slalom Score
  • 8 podium places in slalom, including 4 victories:
date place country
January 28, 1996 Serre Chevalier France
November 23, 1996 Park City United States
December 21, 1996 Crans-Montana Switzerland
February 2, 1997 Laax Switzerland

European Cup

  • Season 1995/96 : 4. Slalom Score
  • Season 2000/01 : 5. Slalom Score
  • 5 podium places, including 3 wins

More Achievements

  • 1 podium in the Nor-Am Cup
  • 2 wins in the Australian New Zealand Cup
  • 12 victories in FIS races
  • 3 New Zealand slalom championship titles (1996, 1998, 2000)
  • 2 New Zealand giant slalom championship titles (1996, 1998)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Riegler: The ski exotic from Salzburg. The November 28, 2016 standard
  2. ↑ Replacement race for Saint-Gervais
  3. ↑ Claudia Riegler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Riegler, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riegler, Claudia Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebenau , Austria