Lorraine Huber

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Lorraine Huber Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 13th March 1980 (age 40)
place of birth Lech , Austria
size 168 cm
Weight 62 kg
job Entrepreneur, ski instructor
and ski guide
Career
discipline Freeride
society Arlberg Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 19th September 2018
Medal table
Freeride World Tour 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Freeride World TourTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver Freeride World Tour 2014 ski
gold Freeride World Tour 2017 ski
bronze Freeride World Tour 2018 ski
 

Lorraine Huber (born March 13, 1980 in Lech , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian - Australian freeride athlete. The business administration graduate became world champion in 2017 and vice world champion on the Freeride World Tour in 2014 . She has also appeared in numerous documentaries .

biography

Lorraine Huber was born as the daughter of a local ski instructor and an Australian in Lech am Arlberg . She learned to ski when she was two and a half years old. At the age of eight, she moved with her mother and sister to Torquay , Victoria , where she grew up until she graduated from high school . In the winters she spent several weeks with her father on the Arlberg, where she attended the ski school. At the age of 16 she began to work as a ski instructor herself, and in 1998 she gained her first experience in freeriding on the Kriegerhorn.

For a business administration -Studies returned Huber to Austria. After spending several winters as a ski instructor, she took part in her first freeride competition ( Red Bull Snow Thrill) in Slovenia in 2004 , which she won straight away. After completing her degree and suffering a serious knee injury with a one-year rehabilitation break , she decided to do the sport professionally. After successfully qualifying, she took part in the Freeride World Tour for the first time in 2010 and achieved a third and a fourth place. Thanks to further podium places and her first win, she finished the 2014 season as runner-up world champion. After two injuries ( broken ankle in 2015 and broken tibia in 2016) she successfully fought her way back and in 2017 was crowned world champion for the first time in front of her compatriot Eva Walkner .

As a state-certified ski instructor and ski guide, Lorraine Huber has organized the Women's Progression Days in Lech am Arlberg every year since 2008, a freeride camp for women that focuses not only on improving ski technique but also on risk management in open terrain. In 2003 she founded Austria's first freeride school in Sölden . Since 2015 she has been attending the university course in mental coaching at the University of Salzburg .

The 38-year-old ended her active competitive career on September 19, 2018.

Sporting successes

  • World Champion of the Freeride World Tour 2017
  • Vice World Champion 2014
  • 4 wins on the Freeride World Tour
Single results
year 1 2 3 4th 5 6th Points World Cup rank
2013 CanadaCanada
8th. 		ItalyItaly
- 		FranceFrance
4th 		United StatesUnited States
6th 		AustriaAustria
- 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
- 		4385 8th.
2014 ItalyItaly
- 		FranceFrance
3. 		AustriaAustria
3. 		United StatesUnited States
1. 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
6th 		6460 2.
2015 FranceFrance
12. 		AustriaAustria
3. 		AndorraAndorra
6th 		United StatesUnited States
5. 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
8th. 		6190 7th
2016 FranceFrance
13. 		AustriaAustria
14th 		AustriaAustria
4th 		United StatesUnited States
- 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
- 		2340 11.
2017 AndorraAndorra
1. 		AndorraAndorra
9. 		AustriaAustria
1. 		United StatesUnited States
2. 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
3. 		9180 1.
2018 JapanJapan
6th 		CanadaCanada
8th. 		AndorraAndorra
5. 		AustriaAustria
1. 		SwitzerlandSwitzerland
2. 		7780 3.

Movies

Like some of her fellow World Tour colleagues, Huber has appeared in numerous productions by renowned filmmakers such as Warren Miller . For her achievements in front of the camera, which took her to Alaska , Patagonia and Greenland , among others , she was named "Best Freeride Female" at the International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal 2013.
The short film Structure: A Ski Track in the Cultural Landscape by Hanno Mackowitz received the jury award at the St. Anton Film Festival in 2017 .

Filmography

  • 2007: Skiing in Greenland
  • 2008: Free to Be
  • 2009: Hike - A Freeride Project in the Austrian Alps
  • 2009: Dynasty
  • 2010: As We Are
  • 2010: Winter Convention
  • 2013: Shades of Winter
  • 2013: Lorraine. The Movie
  • 2014: Konnex
  • 2016: Four Girls and a Matterhorn
  • 2017: Finding the Line
  • 2017: Structure - A ski track in the cultural landscape

Awards

  • 2013: Best Freeride Female (International Freeski Film Festival)
  • 2017: Golden Arlenzweig of the Arlberg Ski Club
  • 2017: Sports honor mark of the state of Vorarlberg
  • 2017: Jury Prize at the St. Anton Film Festival for Structure: A Ski Track in the Cultural Landscape (Director: Hanno Mackowitz)
  • 2017: Vorarlberg Sportswoman of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My Details. Lorraine Huber, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d “I'm looking for a challenge!” - Interview with Freeride World Champion Lorraine Huber. La Loupe, December 4, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ex-world champion Lorraine Huber resigned. ORF , September 19, 2018, accessed on September 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Freeride world champion Lorraine Huber leaves the big stage. VOL.at , September 19, 2018, accessed on September 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Johannes Schweikle: Full on the edge. Spiegel Online , March 29, 2014, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Honor for Freeride World Champion Lorraine Huber. Ski Club Arlberg , accessed on December 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Huber, Hämmerle, Mähr / Bargehr were the very best in 2017 (April 5, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Lorraine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Australian freeride athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lech (Vorarlberg)