Lelde Gasūna

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Lelde Gasūna Alpine skiing
Lelde Gasūna (2014)
nation LatviaLatvia Latvia
birthday 17th September 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Sigulda , Latvia
size 169 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom
society SK International Ski Team
Trainer Einars Lansmanis
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 13, 2010
 Overall World Cup 112th ( 2016/17 )
 Slalom World Cup 50th (2016/17)
last change: February 14, 2019

Lelde Gasūna (born September 17, 1990 in Sigulda ) is a Latvian ski racer . She specializes in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom and has already taken part in several world championships and Olympic Winter Games.

biography

Lelde Gasūna comes from Sigulda , where she also graduated from high school. She then attended the Latvian Academy of Sports Education (LSPA) in Riga . At first she was trained by her mother Gunta Gasūna.

In February 2007 Gasūna took part in the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Jaca , where she finished 31st in slalom. In November 2009 she contested her first FIS race in Sweden . A good year later she made her debut in the World Cup and a little later in the European Cup . At her first world championship in Garmisch , she finished 36th and 58th in slalom and giant slalom. She also took part in the following World Cup in Schladming . After the World Cup she suffered a knee injury, but was able to start training again in the summer and qualified for the Winter Olympics in Sochi . While she didn't finish the giant slalom, she finished 30th in the slalom, her best result at a major event to date. Her third world championship in Vail / Beaver Creek ended with two failures.

More than six years after her World Cup debut in November 2010, she was able to succeed. On January 3, 2017, she reached a second round in the Zagreb slalom for the first time, in which she managed to improve by five places to 22nd place. With this she not only won her first World Cup points, but also surpassed Kristaps Zvejnieks' 26th place in Santa Caterina 2016 and achieved the best result in the history of the Latvian World Cup. After she was only able to classify herself in giant slalom at the World Championships in St. Moritz , she finished the slalom World Cup ranking in 50th place at the end of the season.

After only two World Cup starts in the 2017/18 season , she started at the Winter Olympics in giant slalom and slalom and finished in 43rd and 37th.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

More Achievements

  • 4 wins at Finnish championships (slalom 2014, 2015 and 2016, giant slalom 2016)
  • 1 podium in the Far East Cup
  • 10 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Lelde Gasūna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lelde Gasuna. (No longer available online.) Latvijas Olimpiskā vienība, archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on February 3, 2018 (Latvian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lov.lv
  2. ↑ Ivars Bācis: Latvijas kalnu slēpotāji sezonu sāks ar Pasaules kausu Levi. sportacentrs.com, November 14, 2013, accessed February 3, 2018 (Latvian).
  3. ↑ L. Gasūna pirmo Reizi karjerā tiek uz 2.braucienu un izcīna 22. vietu PK slalomā. Infoski.lv, January 3, 2017, accessed February 3, 2018 (Latvian).
personal data
SURNAME Gasūna, Lelde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigulda