Evelyne Leu

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Evelyne Leu Freestyle skiing
Evelyne Leu (August 15, 2006)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 7th July 1976
place of birth Bottmingen
size 167 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Aerials
society Freestyle Team Fricktal
status resigned
End of career April 2010
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Turin 2006 Aerials
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
silver Ruka 2005 Aerials
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup March 13, 1994
 World Cup victories 8th
 Overall World Cup 7th (2005/06, 2006/07)
 Aerials World Cup 1. (2005/06)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 8th 5 7th
 

Evelyne Leu (born July 7, 1976 in Bottmingen ) is a former Swiss freestyle skier. She specialized in the aerials (jumping) discipline. Her greatest success was her Olympic victory in 2006.

biography

Leu made his debut on March 13, 1994 in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and reached 15th place in Hasliberg . Due to an injury, she missed the start of the 1994/95 season, but made it into the top ten for the first time in February 1995. Also in the 1995/96 season it could improve, with a fifth place as the best result. On December 7, 1996, she was third in the Tignes World Cup for the first time on the podium. The 1997/98 season was rather mediocre in comparison. On January 8, 1999, she celebrated the first World Cup victory of her career in Mont Tremblant . More than a year passed before the next podium finish.

After Leu had won a World Cup competition for the second time in January 2001, she was one of the favorites before the 2001 World Cup ; in fourth place she just missed a medal. At the 2002 Winter Olympics she won the qualification with superiority and even set a new world record with 203.16 points. But she could not withstand the pressure in the finals, crashed twice and dropped back to eleventh place. After the rather mixed 2002/03 season, Leu won for the third time at the end of the season. In the 2003/04 season she was on the podium four times. Another three podiums, including a win, followed in the 2004/05 season. At the 2005 World Championships in Ruka , she won the silver medal behind Li Nina .

Leu had her most successful season in the winter of 2005/06: With two wins and two third places, she won the Aerials discipline in the World Cup. At the 2006 Winter Olympics she was in fifth place after the first round of the finals, but then she managed the most difficult jump ever with the full-full-full (triple somersault with three screws). She had only made this jump in training before. As a result, she advanced to the top and finally became an Olympic champion, as the four subsequent competitors could not match her performance.

In the 2006/07 season Leu achieved a World Cup victory, which was enough for third place in the discipline ranking. At the 2007 World Cup in Madonna di Campiglio she was fifth. Her performances in the winter of 2007/08 were inconsistent and ranged from a 19th place to another World Cup victory at the end of the season. The winter of 2008/09 was similar. After the ninth World Cup victory of her career, she was one of the favorites again before the 2009 World Cup , but only jumped to 15th place in Fukushima .

Leu was able to achieve a podium place in the current 2009/10 season. The 2010 Winter Olympics were disappointing : after a fall in qualifying, she was unable to qualify for the final and finally came in 16th.

Leu lives in Bünzen and trained in the Freestyle Center JumpIn in Mettmenstetten . She is a trained electrical mechanic. She resigned from competitive sports in April 2010.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

Leu achieved 20 podiums, including 8 wins:

date place country
January 5, 2001 Deer Valley United States
March 2, 2003 Špindlerův Mlýn Czech Republic
February 19, 2005 Sauze d'Oulx Italy
January 8, 2006 Mont Gabriel Canada
January 21, 2006 Lake Placid United States
January 12, 2007 Deer Valley United States
March 7, 2008 Davos Switzerland
February 6, 2009 Cypress Mountain Canada

More Achievements

  • 9 Swiss championship titles (1995, 2001, 2003–2009)
  • 8 podiums in the European Cup, including 5 wins

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Three somersaults for a gold medal , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 23, 2006
  2. ^ The Swiss icon of Springer stops , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 6, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Leu, Evelyne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottmingen