Corinne Suter (born September 28, 1994 in Schwyz ) is a Swiss ski racer . Since 2010 it belongs to the squad of the Swiss Ski Association Swiss-Ski and is especially in downhill and Super-Gs successful. In the 2019/20 season, she won the World Cup discipline rankings in both disciplines.
As a member of the National Alpine Skiing Center, Suter drove her first FIS races in November 2009 and competed in the European Cup for the first time in January of next year . After this winter, it was the Swiss Ski Federation in early 2010 as the youngest athlete in the C squad Swiss-Ski added. Since summer 2010 she has been attending the sports school in Engelberg . In the winter of 2010/11 , Suter started in the European Cup alongside FIS races and achieved her first top 10 result at the beginning of the season with sixth place in the downhill from St. Moritz . After becoming Swiss junior champion in giant slalom in her age group Juniors I in January 2011, she took part in the 2011 Junior World Championships in Crans-Montana the next month , where she was ninth in the Super-G and twentieth in the downhill despite a fall. In the slalom she was eliminated in the second round and in the giant slalom she did not start the day after her downhill fall due to a bruised shin. Shortly after the Junior World Championships she was seventh in the slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Liberec , and in March she also won the Swiss junior championship in downhill in her age group.
After Suter had won the giant slalom of the New Zealand championships in September 2011 , she made two World Cup appearances for the first time in Aspen at the end of November of the same year . However, she was eliminated in both slalom and giant slalom. She fared better at the subsequent Nor-Am races at the same location, where she made it onto the podium twice. Back on European soil, she celebrated her first victory in the European Cup on December 19, 2011 in the giant slalom in Valtournenche . At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Roccaraso , Suter won the bronze medal in combination with fourth place in the Super-G, seven in the giant slalom and twelve in the slalom. At the Swiss Championships in 2012 she achieved three second places. At the end of the season, after two years in the C-team, she was promoted to the B-team of Swiss-Ski.
At the Junior World Championships 2013 Suter won the silver medal in the Super-G. She was also successful at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Jasná, Slovakia: after winning the silver medal with the team, she was followed by gold medals in the Super-G and downhill. At the end of the 2013/14 European Cup season, she won both the downhill and the Super-G rankings. Finally, she also won her first Swiss championship title in the downhill. On December 5, 2014 she won World Cup points for the first time as the 30th downhill in Lake Louise . At the end of January 2015 she suffered a bruise in the left tibial head and an inner ligament tear, which meant that she was out for the rest of the 2014/15 season.
Suter overcame the injury faster than expected and made it to the top of the world in the 2015/16 season. This winter she got five top 10 results. She fell on February 6, 2016 on the descent from Garmisch-Partenkirchen and suffered bruises and a slight concussion. Although she had to take a break for two weeks because of this, she still managed to finish ninth in the downhill discipline. In early September 2017, on the last day of training in South America, Suter fell and tore a complex ligament in his left thumb. In the following season 2017/18 she reached a top 10 placement.
In the summer of 2018, a bruise under the toenail led to an infection that developed into blood poisoning . This could be treated just in time, otherwise an amputation of the foot would have threatened. Suter missed almost two months of preparation for the season, but made up the training deficit. In the 2018/19 season she showed much improved performance and achieved fourth place in two World Cup descents. Without having previously stood on a World Cup podium, she surprisingly won the bronze medal in Super-G at the 2019 World Cup in Åre on February 5 . Five days later, the silver medal in the downhill was added.
Immediately after the world championship, Suter finished third on the descent from Crans-Montana, also on the podium for the first time in a world cup race. However, due to incorrect timing, this was only announced three days after the race. After two further podium places at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, Suter achieved the first World Cup victory on January 11, 2020 in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . Four weeks later, on February 9, 2020, she won her second World Cup race with the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. At the end of the extremely successful season, she won both the downhill and super-G disciplines.
Switzerland
