Erika Hansson

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Erika Hansson Alpine skiing
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 2nd July 1973 (age 47)
place of birth Hedemora , Switzerland
size 171 cm
Weight 66 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , super-G ,
downhill , combination
society Sälens IF
status resigned
End of career 2001
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Maribor 1992 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 24. ( 1995/96 )
 Downhill World Cup 58th ( 1993/94 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 7. (1995/96)
 Slalom World Cup 29th (1995/96)
 Combination World Cup 6. (1993/94)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 1 0
 

Erika Hansson (born July 2, 1973 in Hedemora ) is a former Swedish ski racer . Initially at the start in all disciplines and especially successful in the combination , she concentrated in the course of her career on slalom and giant slalom - her strongest discipline. The junior world champion in the combination of 1992 and two-time Swedish champion achieved a podium in the World Cup and another six top 10 placements as well as fifth place in the combination at the 1993 World Cup .

biography

The first major success achieved Erika Hansson with the victory in the combination at the Junior World Championships 1992 in Maribor . Four weeks earlier she had won her first points in the World Cup as 15th in the combination of Grindelwald . At the World Championships in 1993 in Morioka - Shizukuishi she reached fifth place in the combination as well as 14th in slalom, 25th in giant slalom and 33rd in the downhill. The combination initially remained Hansson's strongest discipline. In February 1994 she achieved her first top 10 place in the World Cup as ninth of the combination in the Sierra Nevada . At the 1994 Winter Olympics , she was 11th in the combination, 27th in the Super-G and 34th in the downhill. In the slalom and giant slalom, she was already out in the first round.

From the 1994/95 season, Hansson, who had previously started in all disciplines, concentrated increasingly on the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom and achieved particularly good results in the latter in the 1995/96 season . She drove six times under the top ten and achieved second place behind Anita Wachter in the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 21, 1996, the best World Cup result of her career. She finished seventh in the giant slalom world cup. At the 1996 World Cup in Sierra Nevada, however, she was eliminated in the first giant slalom round, as well as at the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere .

In the 1996/97 season Hansson could not repeat their World Cup results of the previous year. However, she drove several times under the fastest 20 and was 20th in the giant slalom World Cup. From the 1997/98 season, however, she could only rarely score, only in January and February 1999 she achieved two top 20 results. On October 31, 1999 Hansson drove her last World Cup race. After that she only took part in FIS races in Sweden and in the 2000/01 season in FIS and university races in the USA before she retired from ski racing in 2001.

Together with her brother Martin Hansson , who was a ski racer until 2008, she runs the winter sports shop Dalskidan in her home town of Sälen .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

  • Morioka 1993 : 5th combination, 14th slalom, 25th giant slalom, 33rd downhill

World cup

Junior World Championships

  • Zinal 1990 : 12th slalom, 19th super-G, 27th giant slalom
  • Geilo 1991 : 5th slalom, 12th Super-G, 13th descent
  • Maribor 1992 : 1st combination, 6th giant slalom, 9th slalom, 10th descent

More Achievements

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personal data
SURNAME Hansson, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedemora , Sweden