Juliane Bray
Juliane Bray 
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| Full name | Juliane Linda Bray | ||||||||||||
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 New Zealand
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| birthday | October 9, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Wellington | ||||||||||||
| size | 167 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | halfpipe | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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 World cup
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 TTR World Snowboard Tour
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Juliane Linda Bray (born October 9, 1975 in Wellington ) is a former New Zealand snowboarder . It starts in the disciplines halfpipe and snowboard cross .
Already in 1996 she started her first FIS race in a parallel slalom in her New Zealand home in Cardrona and achieved her first victory the following year. Bray mainly competes in FIS races in New Zealand and Japan, overall she was victorious in seven of these competitions, both in the halfpipe and in cross.
On her World Cup debut in Whistler Mountain , Bray made it onto the podium with a third place in snowboard cross. By the end of the 2007/2008 season , she was able to finish in the points in both disciplines with the exception of three races at each of her starts. Thirteen top ten placings up to then she had followed by the fourteenth at the season opener 2008/2009 in Cardrona when she was ninth in the halfpipe. In the season rankings of the World Cups, her best place in the 2007 halfpipe rankings was eighth, an improvement of two places over the previous year. Also in 2006 she achieved her best result in the overall ranking with 20th place. Before that, she was 15th in the snowboard cross discipline in 2001.
Juliane Bray competed at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin in the halfpipe and snowboard cross. She took 16th and 20th place. Her first participation in world championships was in 2005 when she was 28th in snowboard cross. At the 2007 World Championships in Arosa , she was able to convince with a ninth place, especially in the halfpipe, and 22nd place in the cross.
In September 2006, she won her first national title in the New Zealand Championships in The Remarkables in the halfpipe and was second in slopestyle . In her actually stronger discipline snowboard cross she came in fourth place.
Bray took part in 2008/09 in addition to races of the FIS in the Burton Global Open Series and the Ticket-to-Ride Tour. On the very first weekend of the competition, she achieved a victory in the overall classification, the combination of slopestyle, halfpipe and quarterpipe . At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , she finished 24th on the halfpipe. She ended her career after the 2009/10 season.
Juliane Bray lives in Wanaka , New Zealand.
Snowboard World Cup placements
| placement | halfpipe | Snowboard cross | total |
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| 1st place | 1 | 1 | |
| 2nd place | 1 | 1 | |
| 3rd place | 1 | 1 | |
| Top 10 | 15th | 5 | 20th |
| Starts | 35 | 21st | 56 |
(Status: end of career)
Web links
- Juliane Bray in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Juliane Bray in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Juliane Brays on the Ticket-to-Ride Tour (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bray, Juliane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bray, Juliane Linda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellington , New Zealand |