Esther Good

Esther Good
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 30, 1987
size	155 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination
society	SSC Walenstadt
status	resigned
End of career	April 2012
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 28, 2009

Esther Good (born January 30, 1987 ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She started in all disciplines and achieved her best performances in slalom and giant slalom as well as in the combination .

biography

Esther Good won the giant slalom at the Trofeo Topolino in 2002 . She contested her first FIS races in December of the same year and was among the top ten for the first time in January 2004. In the winter of 2005/06 Good, who was then part of the Swiss Ski Association's C-team , was unable to take part in any races due to an injury. The results of the 2006/07 season were not good enough, so that she was relegated to the regional association after the end of the season from the Swiss C-squad.

Good continued to compete in FIS races and national championships and scored her first podium in an FIS race on January 14, 2009. She had contested her first race in the European Cup six days earlier . From the 2009/10 season she started regularly in the European Cup and achieved top 10 results in the disciplines of slalom, giant slalom and super combined from the start. Therefore, she was given the opportunity to drive her first World Cup races in Lienz at the end of December . However, she did not achieve her goal of winning World Cup points for the first time: In the giant slalom, she was eliminated in the first round and in the slalom, she failed to qualify for the second round. In the European Cup she achieved her first podium finish on January 11, 2010 with second place in the super combination of Caspoggio , with which she also achieved second place in the discipline classification. With a total of eleven top 10 placements, she was also the best Swiss woman, eleventh place in the slalom ranking and twelfth place in the overall ranking.

With their achievements, Good made the jump from the regional association back to the A-squad of Swiss-Ski for the 2010/11 season. At the beginning of this season she made a total of seven World Cup starts, but never made it to the second round, which is why she was used again in the European Cup for the rest of the season - but without being able to match her results from the previous year. She also took part in several races in the Nor-Am Cup . On December 1, 2010, she achieved a podium finish with third place in the giant slalom in Aspen . In March 2011 Good became Swiss slalom champion , but after the season she was relegated from the A to the B squad. During the entire winter of 2011/12, Good could not take part in any races and hardly train due to an inflammation of the periosteum on her shin, after which she announced her retirement from skiing in April 2012.

successes

European Cup

• Season 2009/10 : 2nd super combination rating
• 1 podium and a further eleven top 10 results

More Achievements

• 1 Swiss championship title (Slalom 2011 )
• 1 podium in the Nor-Am Cup
• 1 victory in an FIS giant slalom

Web links

• Esther Good in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Esther Good in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss-Ski annual report 2005/06. ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF, 1.6 MB, page 10)  
2. ↑ Selections for 2007/2008 - The year of the climbers. www.live-wintersport.com, May 2, 2007, accessed on March 20, 2010.
3. ↑ First World Cup appearance for Esther Good.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.w-und-o.ch, December 28, 2009, accessed on March 20, 2010.  
4. ↑ Selections women alpine skiing 2010/2011. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Swiss-Ski , April 21, 2010 (PDF; 17 kB)  
5. ↑ Selections women alpine skiing 2011/12. ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Swiss-Ski, April 20, 2011 (PDF, 62kB)  
6. ↑ Esther Good resigns. ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. skionline.ch, April 18, 2012, accessed on May 1, 2012.