Karin Roten (born January 27, 1976 in Leukerbad , Canton of Valais ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She specialized in the disciplines of giant slalom and slalom . From 1993 to 2001 she was a member of the senior squad and the national team. She won two world cup races and three medals at world championships.
Roten made the final breakthrough to the top of the world in the 1995/96 season . After two fourth and one fifth place at the beginning of winter, she was on December 29, 1995 as second in the slalom of Semmering for the first time on a World Cup podium. A month later, another second place was added in the slalom of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . She was also second in the giant slalom of the 1996 World Cup in the Sierra Nevada . At the end of the season, she celebrated her first World Cup victory on March 10, 1996 at the Hafjell slalom. In the 1996/97 World Cup season , Roten was five times among the top five, and on March 15, 1997, when she finished third in Vail, she achieved the only World Cup podium of her career in the giant slalom discipline. At the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere , she won two medals, silver in giant slalom and bronze in slalom. Your record of the 1997/98 season was mixed. In the World Cup, she was six times among the top ten, but did not come on the podium. The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano were disappointing , where she was 16th in the giant slalom and eliminated in the second run of the slalom.
The first part of the 1998/99 season went well for Roten again, with a win on December 20, 1998 in the Hafjell slalom and a second place eight days later in the Semmering slalom. But then she slipped into a crisis and felt both mentally and physically battered, with susceptibility to infection and being underweight in particular troubling her. Roten met the cyclist Armin Meier and married him. Because she became pregnant, she skipped the entire 1999/2000 season. In October 2000 she made her comeback. She tried to reconcile a sports career and motherhood, but soon came to the conclusion that it was not possible. Shortly after the 2000/01 season , she announced the end of her sports career.
After her resignation, Roten became a mother for a second time and was active in the cosmetics industry with her own product line. From December 2004 she worked for the TV station SF DRS as a co-commentator for the women's ski races. After eight years of marriage, she has been separated from Armin Meier since mid-2007. In May 2008, Swiss television announced that the contract with Rote would not be renewed. She went public in November 2009 and reported that she had suffered from major depression after separating from her husband and being released as co-commentator .
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