Manuela Pesko
Manuela Pesko 
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| birthday | 19th September 1978 (age 41) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Chur , Switzerland | |||||||||
| size | 170 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | halfpipe | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | October 30, 2008 | |||||||||
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Manuela Laura Pesko (born September 19, 1978 in Chur ) is a former snowboarder and Olympian (2006) from Switzerland .
Career
She grew up in Lenzerheide , where her parents own and run a sports shop. In 1999 she passed the Swiss Matura exam .
In 1992 Pesko started snowboarding. In 1995 she took part in the Junior World Championship and took second place. After graduating from school in 1999, she began her professional career. She was also trained by the multiple Swiss marathon champion Richard Umberg . Pesko increasingly took part in freestyle contests and was Swiss champion in the halfpipe at the end of the season . As a result, she decided to concentrate mainly on freestyle competitions and the alpine boarder switched to freestylers in 2000.
At the 2005 World Championships in Whistler Mountain , she won the silver medal in the halfpipe. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she took seventh place in the halfpipe. Her greatest success is winning the halfpipe gold medal at the 2007 World Cup in Arosa . She has won the World Cup four times in the halfpipe.
On October 30, 2008, Manuela Pesko announced the end of her active career.
She has been married to the Vals entrepreneur Remo Stoffel since 2013 and, as a mother of four, dedicates herself to family life.
Web links
- Manuela Pesko in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Manuela Pesko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manuela Pesko resigns (sport.orf.at, October 30, 2008)
- ↑ World Champion Manuela Pesko with surprising resignation (October 30, 2008)
- ↑ SRF.ch child number 3: Manuela Pesko mom again (August 4, 2014)
- ↑ The ex-snowboarder in baby happiness - child number four for Manuela Pesko (February 28, 2017)
1996: Carolien van Kilsdonk | 1997: Anita Schwaller | 1999: Kim Stacey | 2001: Doriane Vidal | 2003: Doriane Vidal | 2005: Doriane Vidal | 2007: Manuela Pesko | 2009: Liu Jiayu | 2011: Holly Crawford | 2013: Arielle Gold | 2015: Cai Xuetong | 2017: Cai Xuetong | 2019: Chloe Kim
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| SURNAME | Pesko, Manuela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pesko, Manuela Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |