Fabienne Suter

Fabienne Suter
Fabienne Suter in January 2011
nation	Switzerland
birthday	5th January 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Sattel , Switzerland
size	167 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	SC Hochstuckli saddle
status	resigned
End of career	April 21, 2017
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Are 2007 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 12, 2002  Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 7th ( 2008/09 , 2009/10 )  Downhill World Cup 2. ( 2015/16 )  Super G World Cup 3. ( 2007/08 , 2008/09)  Giant Slalom World Cup 20th (2008/09)  Combination World Cup 6. (2008/09, 2009/10)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 1 4th 3  Super G 3 7th 1  combination 0 0 1  team 0 1 1

Fabienne Suter (born January 5, 1985 in Sattel SZ ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She was a member of the Swiss-Ski national team and was particularly successful in the Super-G and Downhill disciplines .

biography

After reaching the age limit of 15 years, Suter took part in FIS races from December 2000 , the first European Cup appearances followed in January 2002. In the same month she won the Swiss giant slalom junior championship, drawing attention to her promising talent. At the start of the 2002/03 European Cup season, she won two giant slaloms in Ål , and another victory followed in February 2003 in Oberwölz . She finished second in the overall European Cup ranking, as well as in the giant slalom ranking. She made her World Cup debut on December 12, 2002 in Val-d'Isère , where she finished 39th in the giant slalom. She won her first World Cup points on January 4, 2003 with place 25 in the giant slalom in Bormio .

Various injuries made it impossible for Sutter to gain a foothold in the World Cup for years. At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , she fell in the second run of the giant slalom and suffered a bruise in the pelvis. She suffered a particularly serious injury from a comminuted fracture of her left tibia during summer training in Argentina in 2003 , after which she had to take a break for the entire 2003/04 season. Due to chronic knee problems, she had to end the 2004/05 season after a few weeks. After the third unsuccessful operation, she was treated with acupuncture and osteopathy , which according to her statements brought a significant improvement.

Suter returned to the World Cup in the 2006/07 season via FIS and European Cup races, where she increasingly relied on Super-G and Downhill; the best World Cup result this winter was a 20th place. She did amazingly well at the 2007 World Championships in Åre , where she moved up to 11th place in the Super-G and 13th place in the giant slalom; in both races she had to start with a high number. With the Swiss team won the final of the World Cup bronze medal in the team competition , where she had made a significant contribution with the second fastest time in their super-G run it.

Suter achieved her first top 10 result in the World Cup on December 2, 2007 with 10th place in the Super-G of Panorama . On February 10, 2008, she surprisingly celebrated her first World Cup victory at the Super-G in Sestriere , at the same time as the Austrian Andrea Fischbacher . About a month later, on March 13, 2008 at the World Cup finals in Bormio , the next Super-G victory immediately followed, with which she took third place in the discipline ranking in the 2007/08 season . In the 2008/09 season , Suter made it onto the podium several times in the Super-G and again took third place in the discipline classification. On February 27, 2009 Suter won a World Cup descent for the first time in Bansko . At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she could not meet the high expectations: She finished 8th in the Super Combined, 11th in the Super-G and 17th in the Downhill.

In the 2009/10 World Cup season , Suter achieved two podium places - one each in Downhill and Super-G - and a total of nine top 10 placements. As in the previous year, she was seventh in the overall World Cup. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver she was not lucky: With a 4th place in the giant slalom, a 5th place in the downhill and a 6th place in the super combined, she only just missed the podium and had to compete satisfied three Olympic diplomas. The 2010/11 World Cup season was less successful than in previous years . Suter made it into the top 10 eight times, but did not reach a podium and fell back in all World Cup rankings. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was 8th in the Super-G and 13th in the downhill. She rejected reports from various media that burnout was the cause of the rather mediocre season.

In the winter of 2011/12 , Suter was on the podium again in three World Cup races, with her first victory in almost three years in the Super-G in Bad Kleinkirchheim on January 8, 2012 . On January 27, 2012, she fell in the slalom of the Super Combined in St. Moritz and was injured in the process. After a strain was initially diagnosed, a follow-up examination revealed a cruciate ligament tear in the right knee. This ended the season prematurely for her. In the following 2012/13 season, Suter quickly caught up with the world's best. She finished third in the Super-G in St. Anton, plus three other top 10 results. At the 2013 World Championships in Schladming , she finished 5th in the Super-G. Another four top 10 placements were added in the 2013/14 World Cup season , but there were no podium places. At the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi , Suter again just missed the medals; she was fifth in the downhill and seventh in the super-G.

Before the 2014/15 season , Suter made a ski brand change (from Stöckli to Dynastar), which she hoped would provide new impetus. It took time to get used to the new material, which is why in the following winter only three top 10 placements were achieved. At the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek , Suter finished in 9th place in the downhill. Things went much better in the 2015/16 season : she was on the podium in a World Cup five times, each time as runner-up. She also took second place in the downhill discipline. In the 2016/17 season , however, she was unable to match the performance of the pre-winter season. In December 2016, she had to undergo an arthroscopy because of a torn meniscus in her right knee and then had to pause for five weeks. A seventh place each at the World Cup downhill run from Garmisch-Partenkirchen and at the World Cup downhill run in St. Moritz remained their best results. Finally, on April 21, 2017, she announced her retirement from top-class sport.

successes

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010 : 4th giant slalom, 5th downhill, 6th super combined, 13th super G
• Sochi 2014 : 5th downhill, 7th Super-G, 26th giant slalom

World championships

• Åre 2007 : 3rd team competition, 11th Super-G, 13th giant slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 8th super combined, 11th super G, 17th descent
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 8th Super-G, 13th descent
• Schladming 2013 : 5th Super-G
• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 9th Downhill, 22nd Super-G
• St. Moritz 2017 : 7th descent

World Cup ratings

Fabienne Suter in summer training (July 2011)

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		combination		CityEvent
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2002/03	110.	6th	-	-	-	-	48.	6th	-	-	-	-
2006/07	95.	40	-	-	36.	31	46.	9	-	-	-	-
2007/08	31.	357	35.	36	3.	305	35.	16	-	-	-	-
2008/09	7th	797	8th.	194	3.	408	20th	87	6th	108	-	-
2009/10	7th	568	7th	200	4th	266	27.	42	6th	60	-	-
2010/11	18th	384	15th	143	12.	120	31.	40	13.	51	5.	30th
2011/12	18th	389	16.	132	5.	226	36.	31	-	-	-	-
2012/13	28.	269	25th	64	7th	195	44.	10	-	-	-	-
2013/14	30th	230	14th	161	23.	52	47.	8th	22nd	9	-	-
2014/15	25th	297	9.	212	20th	85	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	11.	648	2.	463	11.	185	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	69.	89	26th	69	40.	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

• 20 podium places in individual races, including 4 victories:

date	place	country	discipline
February 10, 2008 *	Sestriere	Italy	Super G
March 13, 2008	Bormio	Italy	Super G
February 27, 2009	Bansko	Bulgaria	Departure
January 8, 2012	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Austria	Super G

* at the same time as Andrea Fischbacher

• 2 podium places in team competitions

European Cup

• 2002/03 season : 2nd overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 5th downhill ranking
• 6 podium places, including 4 wins

date	place	country	discipline
November 28, 2002	Ål	Norway	Giant slalom
November 29, 2002	Ål	Norway	Giant slalom
February 11, 2003	Oberwölz	Austria	Giant slalom
February 21, 2008	Candanchu	Spain	Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

• Tarvisio 2002 : 8th combination, 13th Super-G, 16th giant slalom, 19th descent, 37th slalom
• Puy Saint-Vincent 2003 : 6th descent, 19th slalom

More Achievements

• 3 Swiss championship titles (giant slalom 2003 , Super-G 2009 , downhill 2016 )
• 1 Swiss junior championship title (giant slalom 2002)
• 2 wins in the Australian New Zealand Cup
• 7 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Fabienne Suter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fabienne Suter in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Fabienne Suter in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Fabienne Suter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Fabienne Suter on magazin.skiinfo.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Richard Hegglin: Fabienne Suter now with a cruciate ligament tear. Aargauer Zeitung , January 29, 2012, accessed on March 20, 2016 . 
2. ^ Sabine Steiner: Rescue in Canada. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, December 23, 2006, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 . 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.  
3. ↑ Micha Jegge: Fabienne Suter: «I got up again». Berner Zeitung , July 12, 2011, accessed on March 20, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Micha Jegge: Fabienne Suter changes to Dynastar. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, July 1, 2014, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 . 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.  
5. ↑ Fabienne Suter: "... I was missing this will now". (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, April 21, 2017, archived from the original on April 21, 2017 ; accessed on April 21, 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.