Daniela Schuster

Daniela Schuster
nation	Austria
birthday	January 26, 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Wagna
Career
discipline	Powder skiing Synchro Ski
society	Sport Union Haus Ennstal
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Powder8 World Championships 2 × 3 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Powder8 World Championships gold Canada 1999 Powder8 bronze Canada 2000 Powder8 silver Canada 2001 Powder8 gold Canada 2002 Powder8 silver Canada 2003 Powder8 silver Canada 2004 Powder8 Powder8 European Championships bronze Austria Powder8 bronze Austria Powder8
Synchro-Ski World Cup placements World Cup victories (Women's Division) 2

Daniela Schuster (born January 26, 1973 in Wagna ) is a former Austrian skier . She was world champion in deep snow skiing and celebrated world cup victories in synchro skiing .

Life

Schuster spent the first years of her life in Wolfsberg in the Schwarzautal (Southeast Styria). There she also learned to ski. At the age of ten she switched to the ski school in Schladming and continued her education there until she was 18. The inclusion in the Styrian ski squad brought the first appearances in international races. In her youth, between seventeen and twenty, she gained her first experience in FIS races .

The first complicated injury to the heel bone resulted in an operation. Schuster was therefore out for the whole season and then began with recovery training. Another operation was necessary the following year. During the injury and training break, Schuster completed the HAK advanced course in Bad Aussee and graduated in 1992. At the age of just under twenty, she passed the state ski instructor examination and began to work at the national sports center in Obertraun .

There she met her first synchro ski partner Gabi Pilz . A new training section began. They achieved their first successes in the World Cup. For seven years Schuster and Pilz were a team and, in addition to the deep snow world championship title in 1999, also achieved further successes in the Synchro Ski World Cup. When Pilz ended her career, a new team was put together. With her "powder partner" Michéle Misteli from Switzerland, Schuster celebrated the first Synchro-Ski World Cup victories in Switzerland. However, an injury to her knee temporarily blocked her World Cup goal. A quick recovery made it possible to participate in the “Powder8” world championships and in 2002 the team was once again able to crown itself as deep snow world champions. When she last participated, at the 2004 World Championships in Canada, she placed second with Lenka Erny . A major operation in the ankle was announced in the last competition season. The extent was unpredictable and forced her to end her active career in October 2007.

In 2007 she started a university course at the sports university in Salzburg / Rif. Since October 2009 she has been allowed to call herself an academic sports journalist.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Deep Snow World Championships (Powder8)
  • World Champion 1999 and 2002 (Canada)
  • Vice World Champion 2001, 2003, 2004 (Canada)
  • Bronze 2000 (Canada)

European championships

• Bronze 2004 (Austria)
• Bronze 2005 (Austria)

Austrian championships

• Vice State Champion 1995 ( mogul slope )

Synchro Ski World Cup

year	placement	discipline	place	country
1997	6th place (Open Division)	Synchro ski	Samnaun	Switzerland
1997	7th place (Open Division)	Powder8	Gudauri / Caucasus	Georgia
2000	4th place (Open Division)	Powder8	Samnaun	Switzerland
2000	11th place (Open Division)	Synchro ski	Soelden	Austria
2001	3rd place (Women's Division)	Synchro ski	Samnaun	Switzerland
2002	1st place (Women's Division)	Synchro ski	Samnaun	Switzerland
2002	1st place (Women's Division)	Synchro ski	Samnaun	Switzerland
2002	2nd place (Open Division)	Synchro ski	Neuss	Germany

Web links

• Website by Daniela Schuster
• Synchro Ski World Cup
• Daniela Schuster at Ski-D´db
• Daniela Schuster at Club of Masters