Maia Bartender

Maia Bartender
nation	Switzerland
birthday	September 26, 1981
place of birth	Wolf shooting
size	174 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom
society	Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen
status	resigned
End of career	February 2004
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships silver Verbier 2001 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 9, 2001

Maia Barmettler (born September 26, 1981 in Wolfenschiessen ) is a former Swiss ski racer . Her greatest success was the runner-up world title in slalom at the 2001 Junior World Championship .

biography

Barmettler drove her first FIS race in December 1996. The first start in the European Cup followed in February 1997, but there she was rarely used in the first few years. The first victory in an FIS race she succeeded in December 1999. In 2000 Barmettler was Swiss junior champion in slalom and took part in the Junior World Championships in the Canadian province of Quebec . Her best results were 15th in slalom and 17th in giant slalom.

From January 2001 Barmettler started regularly in the European Cup . The then 19-year-old celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 2001 World Junior Championship in Verbier . Behind the Austrian Christine Sponring she was runner-up in the slalom world champion; in the giant slalom she finished eighth. After struggling with many failures in the European Cup so far, she achieved her first top ten result at the end of the season in the Piancavallo slalom with sixth place.

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season , she also came in sixth place in the Slalom of Levi . In the course of the season, another four top ten results followed, including her only podium place: On February 2, 2002, she reached second place in the Lenggries slalom at the same time as the German Maria Riesch . This season, the Swiss also took part in four slalom races in the World Cup, but never reached the second round.

In the 2002/03 season their results deteriorated. The eleventh place at the season opener in Åre remained her best result, from mid-January she had to accept many failures and never reached the finish line in any more races. Then she was relegated to the C-squad after the end of the season and had to start again increasingly in FIS races in the winter of 2003/04. But even in this season she only crossed the finish line in a few races and Barmettler ended her active career at the end of February 2004.

successes

Junior World Championships

• Québec 2000 : 15th slalom, 17th giant slalom, 29th Super-G, 33rd downhill
• Verbier 2001 : 2nd slalom, 8th giant slalom

European Cup

• 2001/02 season : 9th slalom classification
• A podium, another five times in the top ten

More Achievements

• Swiss junior champion in slalom 2000
• 3 wins in FIS slaloms

Web links

• Maia Barmettler in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Maia Barmettler in the database of Ski-DB (English)