Heidi Renoth
Heidi Renoth 
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| birthday | 28th February 1978 (age 42) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Berchtesgaden , Germany | ||||||||||||||||
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| society | SC Rosenheim | ||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
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Heidi Renoth (born February 28, 1978 in Berchtesgaden ) is a former German snowboarder . In 1997 she became world champion in slalom. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she won the silver medal in the giant slalom .
Career
Renoth achieved sixth place in the parallel slalom at her snowboard world cup premiere on November 24, 1994 in Kaprun , and two days later she was second on the podium in slalom for the first time. The first World Cup victory followed on December 6, 1994 in a slalom in Pitztal. This season she reached second place in both the slalom and the parallel World Cup. She also achieved second place three times in a discipline world cup and in the 1996/97 season she reached fourth place in the overall world cup. In total, Renoth achieved 5 World Cup victories, 19 second and 14 third places in world cup races.
Renoth started twice at the Winter Olympics . At the 1998 Games , she started in the giant slalom. Here she achieved the fifth fastest time in the first run. With the third-best time in the second round, she won the silver medal with a total time of 2: 19.17 minutes. At the 2002 Winter Games , she failed in qualifying in the parallel giant slalom and reached 21st place.
For winning the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, she received - like all German medalists - the silver laurel leaf.
Renoth started at five snowboard world championships between 1996 and 2003. In 1997 she won the world championship title in Innichen . In 2003 at Kreischberg she won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom.
In March 2003, Renoth ended her career at the age of 25 and started training as a physiotherapist.
Web links
- Heidi Renoth in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Heidi Renoth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Snowboard: Olympic runner-up Renoth ends career. ( 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. RP Online, March 28, 2003, accessed June 2, 2010
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| SURNAME | Renoth, Heidi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berchtesgaden , Germany |