Lara Gut-Behrami

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lara Gut-Behrami Alpine skiing
Lara Gut in February 2017
Lara Gut in January 2017
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 27th April 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Sorengo , Switzerland
size 160 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Sporting Gottardo
Trainer Pauli Good
National squad since 2007
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 3 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Sochi 2014 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Val d'Isère 2009 Departure
silver Val d'Isère 2009 Super combination
silver Schladming 2013 Super G
bronze Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 Departure
bronze St. Moritz 2017 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Altenmarkt 2007 Departure
silver Formigal 2008 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 28, 2007
 Individual world cup victories 26th
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 2015/16 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (2016/17)
 Super G World Cup 1. ( 2013/14 , 2015/16)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3. (2015/2016)
 Slalom World Cup 43rd (2015/2016)
 Combination World Cup 2. (2015/16)
 Parallel world cup 23. ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 9 3 3
 Super G 12 6th 3
 Giant slalom 4th 2 6th
 combination 1 0 1
 team 0 1 1
last change: March 12, 2020

Lara Gut-Behrami (* 27. April 1991 in Sorengo , Ticino as Lara Gut ) is a Swiss ski racer . She belongs to the Swiss-Ski national team and competes as an all-rounder in all disciplines, with her strengths being in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines . So far, Gut has won five medals at world championships (three times silver and two bronze) and one bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics . In the Alpine Ski World Cup , she won the overall ranking in the 2015/16 season . In 2008, at the age of 17, she was the youngest ever winner of a Super G World Cup race.

biography

Rapid ascent

Lara Gut, December 2008

Gut grew up in Comano near Lugano . In 2006 she won the renowned Trofeo Topolino junior competition in the slalom discipline . As a 15-year-old, she competed in her first FIS race in December 2006 . At the Junior World Championship in Altenmarkt in 2007 , she won the silver medal in the downhill just behind Tina Weirather . In the same year she became Swiss champion in Super-G , as the second youngest driver of all time (only Bernadette Zurbriggen was younger in 1971). In Formigal she was again second in the downhill at the Junior World Championship in 2008 .

In the European Cup , Gut achieved second place in the downhill classification in the 2006/07 season . Within four days in January 2008 in Caspoggio she won four European Cup races in a row (two downhill runs and Super-G). In the 2007/08 season she won the European Cup discipline rankings in the downhill and in the Super-G by a large margin, and she was already the overall winner three races before the end of the season.

On December 28, 2007 Gut (with start number 60) competed in her first World Cup race , the giant slalom in Lienz , but with rank 43 failed to qualify for the second run; after she did not make it into the classification in the two subsequent races (and did not start the second Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 21, 2008 ), she competed in her first on February 2, 2008 in St. Moritz World Cup descent completely surprisingly to third place and won her first World Cup points, but she missed victory with an uneventful fall shortly before the finish line. In April 2008, the Swiss Sports Aid voted Gut as the “young athlete of the year”. On the occasion of the Swiss Athlete of the Year election in December 2008, she won the “Newcomer of the Year” category, beating mountain biker Nino Schurter and ice hockey player Luca Sbisa . Due to his success at a relatively young age, Gut has been described as one of the greatest talents in Swiss alpine skiing in recent decades.

On December 20, 2008, Gut won her first World Cup race, the Super-G of St. Moritz, at the age of 17 years and eight months (when she was only 14th). This makes her the youngest ever World Cup winner in this discipline. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she won the silver medal in the downhill and the super combined. In the Super-G she finished seventh, in the giant slalom she was eliminated in the first run. Her first full World Cup season she finished eleventh in the overall standings. She also managed to finish in the top 15 in all disciplines. At the end of April 2009 she was the first female athlete to receive the Swiss Sports Aid award for the second time in a row.

Sporadic successes

At the end of September 2009 Gut had a serious fall during the giant slalom training in Saas-Fee and suffered a dislocation of his right hip. At the beginning of October she had to have an operation. Therefore, she could not take part in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver . She did without further races this season.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Gut returned to the World Cup. On December 18, 2010, she achieved her first podium finish after her one-year injury break with third place in the downhill from Val-d'Isère. Two days earlier, the Swiss ski association Swiss-Ski had imposed disciplinary measures against her, among other things because of public criticism of national coach Mauro Pini (who had previously been her private trainer) and repeated violations of dress code. Gut was closed for the two World Cup races in Semmering at the end of December. After initially announcing mediation proceedings before the International Sports Court , both sides reached an agreement shortly before the end of the year. On January 9, 2011 Gut won her second World Cup race with the Super-G in Zauchensee . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she just missed the podium as fourth in both the downhill and Super-G.

In the 2011/12 season , Gut could not quite build on the performance of the pre-winter. Reasons for this were, on the one hand, the change of ski brand from Atomic to Rossignol (combined with the usual adjustment difficulties) and, on the other hand, the demanding racing program (starts in all five disciplines and in almost all races). In the slalom in particular, this strategy proved to be a mistake, as it did not finish in any of the six races in which it competed. There were no podium places this winter, the best result was a fourth place in the Super-G of Lake Louise .

Gut did without slalom races in the 2012/13 season , which had a positive effect on the performance in the other disciplines. On December 14, 2012, she celebrated her third World Cup victory in the downhill from Val-d'Isère, the first in this discipline. Despite a small performance drop around the turn of the year (38th place in the downhill from St. Anton after the best training time), she was nominated in four disciplines for the 2013 World Championships in Schladming . In the Super-G, she won a silver medal for the third time. At the end of the season, she achieved third place in the giant slalom at the World Cup final in Lenzerheide .

Breakthrough to the top of the world

On October 26, 2013 Gut won the first World Cup race of the 2013/14 season , the Sölden giant slalom, by a large margin . It was her first win in this discipline and the first for a Swiss woman in almost eleven years ( Sonja Nef last won on January 4, 2003 in Bormio ). At the end of November, she won both the Downhill and the Super-G at Beaver Creek . She was the first female ski racer since Petra Kronberger in the winter of 1990/91 to win three of the first four World Cup races of the season. At this point she was clearly leading in the overall ranking of the Ski World Cup. However, she was unable to maintain the high level at the races in Europe. She dropped to fifth place as she had been without a podium for over a month and had suffered several failures, especially in the giant slalom.

On January 26, 2014, she managed to build on the winning streak at the start of the season when she won the Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo . On the same day, she made headlines beyond pure sports coverage when she clearly criticized the awarding of the 2014 Winter Olympics to Sochi . In particular, she criticized the human rights situation in Russia , the immense costs and the instrumentalization of sport by politics. In Sochi she won the bronze medal in the downhill, ten hundredths of a second behind the simultaneous winners Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze . She finished fourth in the Super-G and ninth in the giant slalom. Towards the end of the season, three more podium places followed, including two victories at the World Cup final in Lenzerheide in mid-March. She won the Super G discipline ranking and finished the season in third place in the overall ranking.

The 2014/15 season was marked by changeable performances. At the Super-G in Lake Louise on December 7, 2014 and at the downhill run in St. Moritz on January 24, 2015 in St. Moritz, she was able to record two more World Cup victories. There was also the bronze medal in the downhill at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek. Otherwise, however, she rarely kept up with the top riders and did not achieve any further podium places. She finished the season ninth in the overall World Cup and did not make it into the top three in any individual discipline. In the giant slalom in particular, there was a significant step backwards.

Overall world cup winner

Following this uninterrupted season, Gut made a ski brand change from Rossignol to Head and made changes to her staff. She also took advice from Didier Cuche in order to get used to the new material as quickly as possible. The changes paid off immediately in the 2015/16 season , especially in the giant slalom discipline, which had given her a lot of trouble in the pre-winter: Gut finished fourth at the season opener in Sölden and won the race in Aspen , which she won immediately re-established at the top of the world in the giant slalom. After rather mediocre results in the speed races on the track in Lake Louise that was too flat for her, she celebrated on the 18th and 19th. December in Val-d'Isère two victories in a row (super combination and downhill). Their combined victory ended a series of the Swiss women's team in this discipline that had not been successful since December 10, 1989 ( Brigitte Oertli in Steamboat Springs ). A second place in the giant slalom in Courchevel followed on December 20, which made her take the lead in the overall World Cup ranking.

After another victory in the giant slalom in Lienz on December 28th, Gut extended her lead in the overall standings and was now 158 points ahead of Lindsey Vonn . In the following weeks she achieved two podium places, but also had to accept two failures, which is why she had to let Vonn pull away and was 137 points behind at the beginning of February. With two wins in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Super-G) and La Thuile (Downhill) she was able to make up for the deficit; she was now 13 points ahead. Vonn managed to counter in La Thuile's Super-G and gain a lead of 23 points. The City Event in Stockholm on February 23rd brought no change, as both competitors were eliminated in the first round.

The exciting duel ended abruptly when Vonn suffered a triple fracture of his tibia in Soldeu and had to announce the premature end of her season on March 2nd. Gut was 28 points behind in the overall World Cup at this point. As third place in the combination of Lenzerheide on March 13th, one week before the end of the season, she finally secured first place in the overall standings. The first Swiss overall World Cup winner since Vreni Schneider in the 1994/95 season was thus good . On March 17th, at the World Cup final in St. Moritz, she secured second place in the Super-G for the second time in the Super-G discipline.

Season 2016/17

Lara Gut in the Super G victory in Garmisch

Gut won the giant slalom in Sölden on October 22, 2016 . She took further victories of the season at the Super-Gs in Lake Louise , Val-d'Isère and Garmisch-Partenkirchen as well as at the Downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo , this on January 28, 2017. In the Super-G on the other day, she fell and injured herself so much that she started the world championship at home in St. Moritz , where she made a good debut on February 7th with the bronze medal in the Super-G. After the downhill run in the morning of February 10th in the combination decision, she was promising for another medal in 3rd place, but she fell again while entering the slalom at 1 p.m. and tore a cruciate ligament and injured a meniscus in her left knee closed, which ended the current ski season prematurely for her. By then she had scored 1023 points in the World Cup and was second behind the leading American Mikaela Shiffrin (1203 points). She led the discipline standings in the Super-G, while in the downhill she was second behind the Slovenian Ilka Štuhec and in the giant slalom she was third behind the French Tessa Worley and Shiffrin.

comeback

At the 2017/18 season opener in Sölden and her return to the World Cup at the same time, Gut was eliminated in the first round. Top 25 placings followed until she was on the podium again on December 3, 2017 at the Super-G in Lake Louise for the first time since her injury. A second top placement followed in the Super-G in Bad Kleinkirchheim . On January 21, 2018, she was able to win another Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo at the same location as the year before.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , her best result was a fourth place in the Super-G, in the downhill and in the giant slalom she was eliminated. In the further course of the season, the successes mostly failed to materialize, in the overall World Cup Gut-Behrami was twelfth, only in the Super-G World Cup she could record a good result with second place.

Since 2018/19

The 2018/19 season was one of the worst seasons of her career. During the entire winter she could not win a single race and achieved only a few podium places. At the 2019 World Championships in Åre , she was eighth in the downhill and ninth in the Super-G, in the combination Gut-Behrami was eliminated in the slalom. In the overall World Cup, she achieved 21st place, the worst result since her debut season in 2008, the best discipline was the Super-G with seventh place.

The 2019/20 season also started out mixed for Gut-Behrami, but the longer the season lasted, the more and more good results it achieved. In Bansko she was able to achieve the first podium of the season. In Crans-Montana , she won two downhill runs on two days in a row, winning her first World Cup in over two years.

Environment and private matters

Gut pro forma belongs to the Swiss-Ski squad , but with the approval of the association, it is looked after by a private coaching staff financed by sponsors. During the season she travels and trains with the other Swiss athletes, but she does the summer training individually. Her father Pauli Gut acts as a team manager; In May 2009 he also took over from his childhood friend Mauro Pini as head coach, who had once brought the Spanish María José Rienda to the top of the world. Karl Frehsner advised Gut temporarily in the fast disciplines. Since summer 2015 she has been sporadically supported in the speed area by Patrice Morisod, who was previously the head coach of the French.

Lara Gut's father comes from Airolo , the mother from Zone in Lombardy , but lived in the Jura , Pauli Gut's parents are German-speaking Swiss. Lara Gut speaks fluent Italian, French , German and English, as well as Spanish. She completed high school by distance learning and graduated in 2014 with the Matura . She describes herself as a fan of the HC Ambrì-Piotta ice hockey club . She lives in Comano in the canton of Ticino .

In the 2012 film Tutti giù - In freefall by the Ticino director Niccolò Castelli Gut played one of the three main roles, the young ski racer Chiara, who, not yet fully grown, is overwhelmed by her own success.

Gut has had a close friendship with the Austrian skier Anna Veith for many years . On March 18, 2018, she announced her relationship with Swiss footballer Valon Behrami . The couple got married on July 11, 2018. Since November 2018 it starts under the name Lara Gut-Behrami.

successes

Lara Gut at the Davos International Sports Night (October 2014)

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2007/08 54. 105 30th 60 26th 45 - - - - - - - -
2008/09 11. 583 12. 162 11. 161 9. 190 45. 18th 16. 52 - -
2010/11 10. 589 7th 263 4th 272 28. 41 - - 30th 13 - -
2011/12 14th 457 18th 113 8th. 207 17th 128 - - 30th 9 - -
2012/13 9. 662 5. 228 10. 144 6th 213 - - 4th 77 - -
2013/14 3. 1101 6th 352 1. 448 4th 285 - - 15th 16 - -
2014/15 9. 623 6th 289 5. 261 24. 73 - - - - - -
2015/16 1. 1522 4th 394 1. 481 3. 472 43. 15th 2. 160 - -
2016/17 4th 1023 3. 360 3. 300 5. 360 - - - - - -
2017/18 12. 691 10. 190 2. 375 23. 104 - - 22nd 24 - -
2018/19 21st 356 18th 128 7th 178 25th 50 - - - - - -
2019/20 7th 616 4th 288 4th 209 14th 99 - - - - 23. 20th

World Cup victories

Lara Gut has so far achieved 50 podium places in individual races, including 26 victories:

Departure

date place country
December 14, 2012 Val d'Isère France
November 29, 2013 Beaver Creek United States
March 12, 2014 Lenzerheide Switzerland
January 24, 2015 St. Moritz Switzerland
19th December 2015 Val d'Isère France
19th February 2016 La Thuile Italy
January 28, 2017 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
February 21, 2020 Crans-Montana Switzerland
February 22, 2020 Crans-Montana Switzerland

Giant slalom

date place country
October 26, 2013 Soelden Austria
November 27, 2015 Aspen United States
December 28, 2015 Lienz Austria
October 22, 2016 Soelden Austria

Super G

date place country
December 20, 2008 St. Moritz Switzerland
January 9, 2011 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria
November 30, 2013 Beaver Creek United States
December 8, 2013 Lake Louise Canada
January 26, 2014 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy
March 13, 2014 Lenzerheide Switzerland
December 7, 2014 Lake Louise Canada
February 7, 2016 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
4th December 2016 Lake Louise Canada
December 18, 2016 Val d'Isère France
22nd January 2017 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
January 21, 2018 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy

Alpine combination

date place country
December 18, 2015 Val d'Isère France

There are also 2 podium places in team competitions .

European Cup

Discipline ratings:

A total of 14 podium places, including 7 wins:

date place country discipline
January 15, 2008 Caspoggio Italy Departure
January 16, 2008 Caspoggio Italy Departure
January 17, 2008 Caspoggio Italy Super G
January 18, 2008 Caspoggio Italy Super G
February 18, 2008 Soldeu Andorra Giant slalom
March 6, 2008 House in the Ennstal Austria Super G
March 6, 2008 House in the Ennstal Austria Super G

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Lara Gut-Behrami  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoom, Schweizer Sporthilfe, Issue No. 2, June 2008.
  2. ↑ Lara Gut creates a downhill sensation. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 2, 2008, accessed on February 3, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Honor for Lara Gut and Beat Feuz. Schweizer Sporthilfe , April 18, 2008, archived from the original on February 20, 2009 ; Retrieved October 18, 2008 .
  4. ↑ "Lara Gut, the greatest talent in 25 years". Basler Zeitung , December 22, 2008, accessed on December 23, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Oldest and youngest winners , ski-db.com
  6. ^ Lara Gut and Daniel Friberg - Young Athletes 2008. Snowboard.ch, April 24, 2009, accessed on April 25, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Lara Gut operated on the hip. Tages-Anzeiger , October 13, 2009, accessed October 13, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Lara Gut blocked for two races. 20 minutes , December 15, 2010, accessed December 15, 2010 .
  9. ↑ A new round in the Lara Gut case. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 31, 2010, accessed on January 10, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Second World Championship gold for Görgl - second leather medal for brave goods. Basler Zeitung, February 13, 2011, accessed on February 13, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Lara Gut and the pitfalls of new paths. skionline.ch, January 25, 2012, accessed on March 19, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Micha Jegge: The soloist shines and parlors from the collective. Berner Zeitung , October 28, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Martin Born: Better than Maze, Vonn and Schneider. Sunday newspaper , December 1, 2013, accessed on December 2, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Clear edge from Lara Gut. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 26, 2014, accessed on October 24, 2014 .
  15. ↑ «It is right that we talk about human rights». Sunday newspaper , January 26, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Lara Gut shines in the Super-G. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 14, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Lara Gut, how she wins and shines. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 24, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Disappointing World Cup winter for team leader Lara Gut. skionline.ch, March 24, 2015, archived from the original on October 17, 2015 ; accessed on July 28, 2015 .
  19. ↑ a b Morisod looks after Lara Gut. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 24, 2015, accessed on July 28, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Lara Gut wins the giant slalom. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 27, 2015, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Lara Gut: "We'll be billed in March in St. Moritz". skionline.ch, December 21, 2015, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Lara Gut also victorious in Lienz - Tina Weirather second. Aargauer Zeitung , December 28, 2015, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Good wins superior. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 19, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  24. ^ "Draw" in Stockholm: Lara Gut and Lindsey Vonn fail in the first round. watson.ch , February 23, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  25. ↑ The way is free for Lara Gut. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 2, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Father Pauli is now also Lara Gut's head coach! skionline.ch, May 19, 2009, accessed on May 20, 2009 .
  27. ↑ The cradle of the Ticino ski queens Article on nzz.ch from March 15, 2016
  28. ↑ Lara Gut, stella d'argento che fa risplendere Zone Article on bresciaoggi.it of February 6, 2013 (Italian)
  29. ↑ Proud of her Lara article on tagesanzeiger.ch from March 16, 2016
  30. ↑ Always on the Direttissima. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 28, 2014, accessed on October 24, 2014 .
  31. ↑ "At the moment I'm very happy!" Blick , December 2, 2015, accessed June 6, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Lara Gut at Swiss Olympic, accessed on December 21, 2016.
  33. ↑ www.20minuten.ch, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, www.20min.ch: “The good things in life are even better with you” . In: 20 minutes . ( 20min.ch [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  34. ↑ Lara Gut and Valon Behrami got married! watson , July 12, 2018, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Lara Gut drives in the World Cup as Lara Gut-Behrami. Tages-Anzeiger , November 26, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Well-Behrami, Lara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Good, Lara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorengo , Ticino , Switzerland