Helena Rapaport

Helena Rapaport
nation	Sweden
birthday	26th August 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Stockholm , Sweden
size	157 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , combination
society	Mälaröarnas Alpina SK
status	active
Medal table
Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Winter Universiade bronze Sierra Nevada 2015 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 4th December 2015
last change: January 11, 2020

Helena Rapaport (born August 26, 1994 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ski racer . She specializes in the fast downhill and Super-G disciplines and became the Swedish Super-G Champion in 2015.

biography

Helena Rapaport comes from Stockholm and starts for the Mälaröarnas Alpina SK.

At the age of 15 she competed in her first FIS race in Hemsedal . At the national level it caused a sensation for the first time in March 2011 when she won the bronze medal in the Super-G at the Swedish championships behind Jessica Lindell-Vikarby and Emelie Wikström . In February 2012 she made her European Cup debut in the Super-G of Sella Nevea , but was only able to score points for the first time in December 2015 with rank 17 in the combination of Kvitfjell . At the Junior World Championships in Jasná , she finished 32, 48 and 52 in downhill, super-G and super-combined. In 2014/15 she celebrated her most successful season for the time being. In February she won the bronze medal in Super-G at the Universiade in Sierra Nevada , but was eliminated in three other races. At the Junior World Championship in Hafjell , she was able to improve her results slightly and finished in 26th, 29th and 32nd in downhill, super-G and super-combined. At the end of the season, she was crowned national champion in Åre in the Super-G for the first time.

On December 4, 2015 Rapaport made her World Cup debut in the downhill from Lake Louise , but has not yet been able to achieve a place in the points at other starts. She achieved her best result in the European Cup in February 2017 with eighth place in the Super-G in Sarntal . Two years later she took part in her home world championship in Åre and finished 35th in the downhill, but did not finish in the Super-G.

Her older sister Matilda Rapaport was active as a freeride athlete and was killed in an avalanche in the Chilean Andes in 2016 . Her aunt is the actress Alexandra Rapaport .

Trivia

On January 25, 2019, Rapaport and her teammates Lisa Hörnblad and Lin Ivarsson saved the life of a German official on the sidelines of the Kandahar races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The 60-year-old had suffered a heart attack in a gondola , whereupon the three Swedes gave first aid. Hörnblad carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation until the rescue helicopter arrived at the mountain station.

successes

World championships

• Åre 2019 : 35th departure

Junior World Championships

• Jasná 2014 : 32nd downhill, 48th super-G, 52nd super combination
• Hafjell 2015 : 27th Downhill, 29th Super-G, 32nd Super Combined

More Achievements

• Swedish champion in Super-G 2015
• Swedish runner-up in the 2015 Downhill and 2017 Super-G
• Bronze at the Universiade 2015 in the Super-G
• 8 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Helena Rapaport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Helena Rapaport in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helena Rapaport. Eurosport , accessed January 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Swedish downhill women as life savers. ORF , January 25, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 .