Dominique Gisin

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Dominique Gisin Alpine skiing
Dominique Gisin (Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 2011)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 4th June 1985 (age 35)
place of birth Visp , Switzerland
size 172 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , combination
society SC Engelberg
status resigned
End of career March 2015
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Sochi 2014 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 2, 2005
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 11. ( 2013/14 )
 Downhill World Cup 4th ( 2008/09 )
 Super G World Cup 6. ( 2010/11 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 10. ( 2012/13 )
 Slalom World Cup 54th (2012/13)
 Combination World Cup 6. ( 2014/15 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 1 2
 Super G 1 0 1
 

Dominique Sabine Gisin (born June 4, 1985 in Visp ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She specialized in the downhill , super-G and giant slalom disciplines. Her greatest success was winning the gold medal in the downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

biography

Dominique Gisin drove FIS races for the first time in January 2001 . For almost three years, however, she was unable to contest a race due to several severe knee injuries and concentrated on her training. Until 2005 she was a student at the sports secondary school where she lived in Engelberg and then began studying physics at the University of Basel (interrupted in the meantime). She also passed part of the entrance exam for training as a combat aircraft pilot for the Swiss Air Force ; because of the injuries, however, she is considered unfit for service.

From December 2003 Gisin was able to race again. She achieved first successes in February 2005 with fourth place in the downhill run of the Junior World Championship in Bardonecchia and winning the Austrian Junior Downhill Championship in April 2005. On her debut in the World Cup in Lake Louise on December 2, 2005, she set a surprisingly fastest time in the first downhill training. The race itself was overshadowed by her injury. After the second split, she tore the inner ligament of her right knee as she entered the most technically demanding part of the route . The injury resulted in a four-month break from competition.

Gisin fought his way back into the Swiss World Cup team via FIS races and the European Cup. On December 19, 2006, she surprisingly finished ninth on the fourth World Cup descent of her career in Val-d'Isère . She confirmed this performance one day later in the same place with the same ranking. On January 13, 2007, she achieved her first podium finish with second place in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . At the world championship downhill in Åre on February 11, 2007, she finished fifth.

Dominique Gisin was injured again on February 28, 2007. During the first training run for the downhill in Tarvisio , she tore a cruciate ligament and an inner ligament on her left knee as well as a tear on her right knee after a fall. The seventh knee operation followed. Gisin caught up with the top of the world again, but top results were missing in the 2007/08 season with the exception of a ninth place. On January 18, 2009 - at the same time as Anja Pärson  - she won her first World Cup race, the downhill run in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. Six days later, she confirmed this success with the downhill victory in Cortina d'Ampezzo . At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she was eliminated in the downhill.

In January 2010 Gisin suffered a tear in the medial meniscus on the descent from Haus im Ennstal . After an arthroscopy, she had to take a three-week break. On the downhill run at the 2010 Winter Olympics , Gisin fell badly on the finish slope and suffered a concussion. On March 7, 2010, she won her first Super-G at the World Cup in Crans-Montana . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was fourth in the super combination and eighth in the downhill. In the Super-G, she was eliminated. In the 2010/11 season, two third places were her best results in the World Cup .

On October 22, 2011, Gisin took part in a World Cup giant slalom for the first time in Sölden, finishing in eleventh place. She then achieved several top 10 placements in downhill and super-G, including a third place in the first downhill of Lake Louise. On January 13, 2012, she suffered meniscus and cartilage injuries in her left knee during downhill training in Cortina d'Ampezzo . She took part in the downhill race the next day, but then had to end the 2011/12 season early. On October 27, 2012, she also improved her best giant slalom performance in Sölden to 4th place and on January 27, 2013, she scored 30th in a slalom for the first time in Maribor . During the departure of the 2013 World Cup , Gisin fell and broke his right metacarpal bone. Despite this injury, she was able to continue the season after a short break.

During the 2013/14 World Cup season , Gisin was regularly classified in the top ten (in three different disciplines), but did not get past sixth place. Somewhat surprisingly, she won the gold medal in the downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , at the same time as the Slovenian Tina Maze . In December 2014 she was named Swiss Sportswoman of the Year . On March 19, 2015, Gisin announced her resignation at a press conference on the occasion of the World Cup final in Méribel . A week later she was twice Swiss champion in the last races of her career.

Personal

Gisin lives in Engelberg. Her younger brother Marc and her younger sister Michelle are also ski racers.

Education and professional career

Gisin graduated from the Engelberg Abbey School . In summer 2018 she completed her physics studies at the ETH Zurich with a bachelor's degree. From October 2018 to April 2019 she was CEO of the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation and has been a delegate of the Board of Trustees ever since. In April 2018 she was elected to the board of directors of Bergbahnen Engelberg-Trübsee-Titlis . In the 2017/18 season, Gisin worked as a co-commentator for Swiss television . In 2018 Gisin took part in the “Ski Tour of Life”, the Haute Route from Chamonix to Verbier , with her former teammate Fränzi Aufdenblatten , among others . SRF 1 documented the ski tour in a three-part series.

Sporting successes

Dominique Gisin (center) at the award ceremony in Sochi

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014 : 1st descent, 5th super combination, 10th giant slalom

World championships

World cup

  • 7 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
January 18, 2009 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Departure *
January 24, 2009 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure
March 7, 2010 Crans-Montana Switzerland Super G

* at the same time as Anja Pärson

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination City event
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2006/07 34. 219 10. 210 - - - - - - 38. 9 - -
2007/08 47. 125 26th 96 44. 6th - - - - 25th 23 - -
2008/09 21st 335 4th 291 44. 13 - - - - 19th 31 - -
2009/10 24. 271 14th 117 12. 140 - - - - 28. 14th - -
2010/11 17th 434 9. 180 6th 177 - - - - 11. 62 9. 15th
2011/12 25th 297 12. 160 22nd 84 31. 53 - - - - - -
2012/13 15th 435 19th 127 15th 99 10. 190 54. 1 24. 18th - -
2013/14 11. 523 9. 234 12. 122 15th 149 - - 14th 18th - -
2014/15 16. 396 16. 149 14th 117 19th 90 - - 6th 40 - -

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Dominique Gisin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominique Gisin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ). Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ «The best feeling was to drive down the mountain in Sochi, liberated». Aargauer Zeitung , February 24, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ End of season for Dominique Gisin due to knee injury. Aargauer Zeitung, January 17, 2012, accessed on January 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Dominique Gisin: Broken metacarpal bone, giant slalom questionable. skionline.ch, February 10, 2013, accessed on March 17, 2013.
  5. ^ The emotional farewell between two Olympic champions, Tages-Anzeiger, March 19, 2015, accessed on March 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Three siblings, one passion: The secret of the Gisins. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 28, 2012, accessed on December 29, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Dominique Gisin hands over the management of Schweizer Sporthilfe , March 14, 2019
  8. ↑ In 2020 Sporthilfe will celebrate its 50th anniversary. “Just holding hands is not possible” Blick.ch, January 1, 2020
  9. ↑ Olympic champion Dominique Gisin becomes CEO of Schweizer Sporthilfe. Luzerner Zeitung , June 18, 2018, accessed on October 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ SRF is entering the Olympic winter with two quartets. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, April 17, 2017, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; Retrieved May 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ski
  11. ↑ Billeter, Kern and Gisin gone - these are the new ski commentators on SRF. watson.ch , September 26, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Adventure Alps - The Ski Tour of Life , SRF.ch, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gisin, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gisin, Dominique Sabine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Visp , Switzerland