Julia Dujmovits (born June 12, 1987 in Güssing , Burgenland ) is a former Austrian snowboarder . Her greatest successes so far are the 2014 Olympic victory in the parallel slalom in Sochi and the two-time silver medal at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships. During an interview with ORF during the parallel giant slalom on February 24, 2018, Dujmovits announced that she would give up her career the season 2017/18 to want to quit. On March 17, 2018, she contested her last individual race after 136 competitions at World Cup level.
Julia Dujmovits, who comes from Sulz in the Güssing district , discovered snowboarding when she was five years old on a winter holiday. At the age of nine she got her first own snowboard as a present, at the age of eleven she drove her first race and at the age of 15 she gathered her first impressions of the World Cup.
At the age of twelve she escaped the fire disaster in the Kaprun glacier lift , in which all other members of her team lost their lives; Dujmovits and her brother had chosen the gondola as a means of transport instead of the funicular.
Dujmovits is Junior World Champion (Bad Gastein 2007), overall European Cup winner (2005) and vice world champion in parallel GS (Stoneham 2013). At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver 2010 she was injured. In her career, the Burgenland woman had to struggle with two cruciate ligament tears, a shoulder dislocation, a broken ankle and a concussion.
Dujmovits has been working with the fitness trainer Peter Eichberger since May 2012 . Under his guidance, she completed her training program on Maui / Hawaii in 2012 and 2013 . Dujmovits is also active in triathlon and so she started in May 2014 at Ironman 70.3 Hawaii (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running).
At the 2014 Winter Olympics , she won the gold medal in the parallel slalom. She dedicated this medal to her colleagues who died in the fire disaster on the Kaprun glacier lift in 2000.
In the parallel giant slalom held as part of the 2018 Winter Olympics , she was twelfth on February 24th in Pyeongchang . Dujmovits announced at the ORF interview as part of the Olympic parallel giant slalom that she wanted to end her career at the end of the 2017/18 season.
Private
Julia Dujmovits has three brothers. She is a member of the Burgenland-Croat minority.
Since 2013 she was in a relationship with the rower Bernhard Sieber (* 1990), the two got engaged in April 2015 and announced their separation in January 2018.
Dujmovits has been running her own YouTube channel since September 2017, where she gives yoga classes. In addition, since October 1, 2017, an episode of the series “Yoga with Julia” has been broadcast twice a day on Sixx Austria .
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