Fanny Smith

This article describes the skier, for the last Tasmanian Aboriginal see Fanny Cochrane Smith .

Fanny Smith
nation	Switzerland
birthday	20th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Aigle
size	166 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Ski cross
society	SC Villars-Gryon
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 2 × 1 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Pyeongchang 2018 Ski cross  Freestyle Skiing World Championships gold Voss 2013 Ski cross bronze Kreischberg 2015 Ski cross silver Sierra Nevada 2017 Ski cross silver Park City 2019 Ski cross Junior World Championships gold Cardrona 2010 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup March 6, 2008  World Cup victories 23  Overall World Cup 3. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )  Ski cross world cup 1. ( 2012/13 , 2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Ski cross 23 14th 9
last change: March 18, 2020

Fanny Smith (born May 20, 1992 in Aigle ) is a Swiss freestyle skier . She specializes in the discipline of ski cross . Her greatest successes to date are the 2013 world championship title, the 2018 Olympic bronze medal and winning the discipline classification in the 2012/13 and 2018/19 World Cup seasons.

biography

Smith grew up in Villars-sur-Ollon in the canton of Vaud . She is the daughter of an American and an Englishwoman who were both naturalized in Switzerland. As is usual with ski crossers, she was initially an alpine skier. As a 13-year-old she won the Super-G youth championship in western Switzerland and was subsequently accepted into the squad of the Swiss-Ski National Competence Center. When she was 16, however, she switched to the freestyle discipline ski cross, which appealed to her more.

On March 6, 2008 Smith made his debut in Grindelwald in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup , but could not finish the race. She won her first World Cup points on January 5th, 2009 as 19th of the race in St. Johann in Tirol ; this was her best result in the 2008/09 season . She was among the top ten for the first time on December 21, 2009 in San Candido , where she came seventh. She achieved her first podium on January 24, 2010, when she was second in Lake Placid . Smith was the youngest member of the Swiss team at the 2010 Winter Olympics ; she was eliminated in the semifinals and ranked seventh. The FIS she recorded a month later as the " Rookie of the Year from".

In late August 2010, Smith won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Cardrona . For this success, she received the award as Young Athlete of the Year 2010 from the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation . On December 19, 2010, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in Innichen . A month later she finished third in the 2011 Winter X Games . She also won the Swiss Championships in Arosa in 2011 . At the start of the 2011/12 season Smith drove in Innichen to fourth place; However, she fell in the final round and tore a cruciate ligament , which ended the season prematurely for her.

In the first race of the following 2012/13 season , Smith immediately returned to the top when she won the second World Cup in Nakiska . With three more victories and two third places, she took the lead in the World Cup discipline early on and did not give it up until the end of the season. At the 2013 World Championships in Voss , she lived up to her role as a favorite and won the gold medal. In the 2013/14 season , Smith stood on the podium of a World Cup seven times, including three times as the winner. The decision to win the discipline classification was not made to her disadvantage until the last race, when she had to let Canadian Marielle Thompson pass her. The 2014 Winter Olympics ended disappointingly for her when she was eliminated in the semi-finals after a driving error and ultimately only finished eighth.

In the 2014/15 season Smith won three times. There was also a third place, which was enough for third place in the discipline classification. She won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg . She could not contest the season finale in Megève because of a contusion of the coccyx she suffered during training . In qualifying for the first World Cup race of winter 2015/16 in Montafon , Smith had a bad fall and broke his collarbone , which meant that she missed the rest of the season. In the 2016/17 season she achieved seven World Cup podiums (five times second, twice third), which resulted in third place in the discipline ranking. At the end of the season, the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she won the silver medal.

In mid-December 2017, Smith achieved another World Cup victory (the twelfth overall) after more than two and a half years. In the further course of the 2017/18 season , three podium places were added, including another victory. She won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the 2018/19 season, Smith finished on the podium in seven of eleven races. With a total of six victories and a third place, she won the discipline ranking for the second time in six years. She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in Park City .

successes

Olympic games

• 2010 Vancouver : 7th ski cross
• 2014 Sochi : 8th ski cross
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 3rd ski cross

World championships

• Deer Valley 2011 : 10th ski cross
• Voss 2013 : 1st ski cross
• Kreischberg 2015 : 3rd ski cross
• Sierra Nevada 2017 : 2nd ski cross
• Park City 2019 : 2nd ski cross

World Cup ratings

season	total		Ski cross
	space	Points	space	Points
2008/09	145.	1	47.	13
2009/10	19th	34	6th	374
2010/11	9.	46	4th	504
2011/12	107.	5	27.	50
2012/13	5.	58	1.	576
2013/14	5.	66	2.	730
2014/15	8th.	49	3.	539
2016/17	13.	52.54	3.	683
2017/18	8th.	53.90	2.	539
2018/19	3.	72.64	1.	799
2019/20	3.	72.36	2.	796

World Cup victories

Smith has achieved 46 podiums in the World Cup so far, including 23 wins:

date	place	country
December 19, 2010	San Candido	Italy
December 8, 2012	Nakiska	Canada
December 13, 2012	Telluride	United States
December 19, 2012	Val Thorens	France
17th March 2013	Are	Sweden
December 21, 2013	San Candido	Italy
March 15, 2014	Are	Sweden
March 16, 2014	Are	Sweden
February 6, 2015	Arosa	Switzerland
February 7, 2015	Arosa	Switzerland
February 21, 2015	Tegernsee	Germany
15th December 2017	Montafon	Austria
March 3, 2018	Sunny Valley	Russia
17th December 2018	Arosa	Switzerland
December 21, 2018	San Candido	Italy
20th January 2019	Idre	Sweden
January 26, 2019	Blue Mountain	Canada
February 23, 2019	Sunny Valley	Russia
February 24, 2019	Sunny Valley	Russia
7th December 2019	Val Thorens	France
22nd December 2019	San Candido	Italy
January 25, 2020	Idre	Sweden
February 23, 2020	Sunny Valley	Russia

Junior World Championships

• Cardrona 2011: 1st ski cross

X Games

• 3rd place Winter X Games 2011
• 4th place Winter X Games 2010

More Achievements

• 2 wins in the Nor-Am Cup
• 1 podium in the European Cup
• 5 podiums in the Australian New Zealand Cup, including 3 wins
• 1 victory in the South American Cup
• Swiss Ski Cross Championship 2011
• Young athlete of the year 2010

Web links

Commons : Fanny Smith  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fanny Smith website
• Fanny Smith in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) Freestyle
• Fanny Smith in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) Alpine skiing
• Fanny Smith in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La force mental à 17 ans. (No longer available online.) Le Matin , January 18, 2010, formerly the original ; Retrieved February 5, 2010 (French).  ( 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.    
2. ^ Fanny Smith. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Villars-Gryon Tourist Office, January 2010, archived from the original on May 1, 2010 ; Retrieved February 5, 2010 (French). 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. ↑ Fanny Smith is "Rookie of the Year". (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski , March 23, 2010, archived from the original on November 27, 2010 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Freestyle seasonal terminée Vaudoise pour la Fanny Smith. 24 heures, December 18, 2011, accessed on December 18, 2011 (French). 
5. ↑ Fanny Smith's tailbone injured. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 13, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Fanny Smith falls at the start of the World Cup. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 4, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015 .