Corina Grünenfelder
Corina Grünenfelder 
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| birthday | 29th December 1975 (age 44) | ||||||
| place of birth | Elm , Switzerland | ||||||
| size | 163 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 59 kg | ||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||
| society | SC Elm | ||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||
| End of career | March 2004 | ||||||
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Corina Grünenfelder (born December 29, 1975 in Elm GL ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She is the sister of Jürg and Tobias Grünenfelder , who were also active as ski racers. She mainly competed in slaloms , finished three times in the top ten in the World Cup and won three races in the European Cup . She took part in four World Championships and Olympic Winter Games , but only crossed the finish line once, as the 27th of the 1999 World Cup slalom .
biography
Grünenfelder's first major international event was the 1994 Junior World Championship in Lake Placid , where she was 20th in the giant slalom. After numerous podium places in FIS races and several top 15 results in the European Cup , she contested her first World Cup races in January 1998 . She won her first World Cup points on December 20, 1998 with 24th place in the Veysonnaz slalom and on January 17, 1999 she achieved her best result of the 1998/99 season with 15th place in the Semmering slalom . It was also used at the 1999 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , where it finished 27th in slalom. After she had previously competed in giant slaloms in the World Cup, but never made it into the second round in this discipline, she only took part in World Cup slaloms from the 1999/2000 season , in which she was not able to regularly qualify for the second round . While in winter 1999/2000 only a 25th place in Lienz was her best result, she reached 14th place in Flachau in the 2000/01 season . At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg , however, she was eliminated in the first round.
In the 2001/02 World Cup season , which was her most successful, she managed to achieve consistently good placements. Although she failed in three of the nine slaloms in the first round, in the other six she was always in the top 15. Twice, in the two slaloms in Maribor on January 5th and 6th, 2002, she was among the top ten, where she achieved her best World Cup result in eighth place in the second slalom. She finished 17th in the Slalom World Cup. In the next winter she could not quite match these results. Although she reached a ninth place in the slalom of Maribor, otherwise she was only twice in the top 20 and was 26th in the Slalom World Cup. In the European Cup, Grünenfelder won a total of three slaloms in these two years, with which she was sixth in the slalom classification in the 2001/02 season and sixth in the overall ranking and second in the slalom ranking in the 2002/03 season.
At major events, however, Grünenfelder had no luck. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was in tenth place after the first round, but dropped out in the second run. It was the same for her at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz . Here she was only in 25th place after the first run, but she dropped out again in the second run. In the 2002/03 season , Grünenfelder did not achieve any top results. She finished in the top 20 in four World Cup slaloms, but only achieved 17th place in Park City as the best result . This winter she also took part in two giant slaloms in the World Cup, but could not qualify for the second round. In the European Cup, she stayed without a podium for the first time in four years. In March 2004, Corina Grünenfelder announced her retirement from top-class sport at the age of 28.
Sporting successes
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 27th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Lake Placid 1994 : 20th giant slalom
World cup
- 3 placements among the top ten
European Cup
- 2001/02 season : 6th slalom classification
- 2002/03 season : 6th overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking
- 8 podium places, including 3 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 2, 2001 | Are | Sweden | slalom |
| December 3, 2001 | Are | Sweden | slalom |
| February 7, 2003 | La Molina | Spain | slalom |
More Achievements
- 6 victories in FIS slaloms (from the 1994/95 season)
Web links
- Corina Grünenfelder in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Corina Grünenfelder in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Corina Grünenfelder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corina Grünenfelder ends skiing career. www.skiinfo.de, notification from March 16, 2004, accessed on July 2, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grünenfelder, Corina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elm GL , Switzerland |