Maria Pietilä Holmner

Maria Pietilä-Holmner
nation	Sweden
birthday	25th July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Umeå , Sweden
size	170 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
society	Umeå SK
status	resigned
End of career	17th January 2018
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 4 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships silver Are 2007 Giant slalom bronze Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 slalom bronze Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 team silver Schladming 2013 team bronze Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 team bronze St. Moritz 2017 team  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Québec 2006 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut October 26, 2002  Individual world cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 7. ( 2013/14 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd (2013/14)  Slalom World Cup 4. ( 2010/11 , 2013/14)  Combination World Cup 32nd (2010/11)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 0 1  slalom 2 4th 1  Parallel races 1 0 1  team 2 1 2

Maria Pietilä Holmner (born July 25, 1986 in Umeå ; often written Pietilä-Holmner ) is a former Swedish ski racer . She specialized in the disciplines of slalom and giant slalom , won four medals at world championships , two of them with the team, as well as three world cup races, and became the 2006 junior world champion in slalom. Her brother Johan Pietilä Holmner was also a ski racer.

biography

Pietilä Holmner drove her first FIS races in November 2001 and already reached the first podium places in the next month. It was first used in the European Cup in February 2002 , where it scored points in the first race and achieved its first top 10 result before the turn of the year. From 2002 she also took part in the Junior World Championships every year.

In the World Cup Pietilä Holmner first came on 26 October 2002 at the giant slalom in Soelden used. She qualified in her fifth World Cup race, the giant slalom in Åre on February 22nd, 2004, for the first time for the second round and won her first World Cup points with 15th place. From the following winter 2004/05 she started regularly in the World Cup. She initially achieved other top 20 results and was 13th in slalom and 16th in giant slalom at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina . Shortly after the World Cup, she achieved her first top 10 result in the World Cup as tenth in the giant slalom in Åre. As a result, she found herself more and more connected to the absolute top of the world. In the World Cup, a total of twelve more top 10 results in giant slalom and slalom were added over the next three years, which steadily improved in both World Cup discipline scores and was among the top 15 for the first time in the 2006/07 season . Pietilä Holmner also achieved good results at major events: a tenth place in the giant slalom of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin was followed shortly after by the junior world champion title in slalom.

World championship silver in the giant slalom in Åre

She celebrated her greatest success so far at her “home world championship” in Åre in 2007 , when she won the silver medal in giant slalom behind Austrian Nicole Hosp on February 13th (after the first run she was 0.29 seconds behind leading Julia Mancuso in 6th place). She finished the World Cup slalom in eleventh position.

Pietilä Holmner achieved her first podium in the World Cup on November 15, 2008, finishing second in the Levi slalom . With a further ten top 10 places in the 2008/09 season (five each in slalom and giant slalom), she reached 7th place in both discipline World Cups and 13th place in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup in Val-d'Isère , she was eighth in Giant slalom, but in the slalom she was eliminated in the first round. The 2009/10 season was similar to the previous year : Pietilä Holmner did not achieve a podium place, but was again eleven times among the top ten, making her sixth in the giant slalom, eighth in the slalom World Cup and thirteenth in the overall World Cup for the second time. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she narrowly missed the medal ranks as fourth in the slalom, while in the giant slalom, with 24th place, she lagged well behind her World Cup results.

On November 28, 2010, Pietilä Holmner celebrated her first World Cup victory in the Aspen slalom - with the fastest time in both runs. The second victory followed on January 2, 2011 at the World Cup premiere of the City Event in Munich . In the 2010/11 season she improved to fourth place in the Slalom World Cup and eleventh place in the overall World Cup, while in the giant slalom she did not come close to the previous year's results, only finished once among the fastest 15 and fell back to 19th place in the discipline World Cup. At the highlight of the season, the 2011 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Pietilä Holmner won two bronze medals in the slalom and in the team competition, and in the giant slalom she was 22. In the winter of 2011/12 , Pietilä Holmner's best World Cup result was second in the slalom in Aspen, and drove two more times she was among the top five. In mid-January she had to end the season prematurely after a cruciate ligament tear in her left knee during training .

At the 2013 World Championships in Schladming Pietilä Holmner won the silver medal in the team competition and in 2015 the bronze medal in Vail / Beaver Creek . In addition, she won in the same discipline on February 25, 2014 in Innsbruck the only Nations Cup competition against Norway and Switzerland . After a serious fall just before the finish in the second round of the giant slalom on December 27, 2016 on Semmering , she suffered a partial tear in the inner ligament and a bruised bone. She had to take a break from racing for several weeks, but was able to start again at the 2017 World Championship in St. Moritz and won a bronze medal in the team competition.

On January 17, 2018, Pietilä Holmner announced her retirement from active ski racing due to ongoing back problems.

successes

Olympic games

• Turin 2006 : 10th giant slalom, 21st slalom
• Vancouver 2010 : 4th slalom, 24th giant slalom
• Sochi 2014 : 6th giant slalom

World championships

• Santa Caterina 2005 : 13th slalom, 16th giant slalom
• Åre 2007 : 2nd giant slalom, 11th slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 8th giant slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 3rd slalom, 3rd team competition, 22nd giant slalom
• Schladming 2013 : 2nd team competition, 6th slalom, 18th giant slalom
• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 3rd team competition
• St. Moritz 2017 : 3rd team competition, 14th slalom, 25th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

• Season 2008/09 : 7th Slalom World Cup, 7th Giant Slalom World Cup
• Season 2009/10 : 6th Giant Slalom World Cup, 8th Slalom World Cup
• 2010/11 season : 4th Slalom World Cup
• Season 2012/13 : 7th Slalom World Cup
• Season 2015/16 : 8th Giant Slalom World Cup, 9th Slalom World Cup

World Cup victories

• 10 podium places in individual races, including 3 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
November 28, 2010	Aspen	United States	slalom
January 2, 2011	Munich	Germany	Parallel races
December 13, 2014	Are	Sweden	slalom

• 5 podium places in team competitions , including 2 wins

Junior World Championships

• Tarvis 2002 : 28th slalom
• Briançonnais 2003 : 20th slalom, 27th giant slalom
• Maribor 2004 : 12th Super-G, 14th slalom, 19th giant slalom
• Bardonecchia 2005 : 6th slalom. 8th giant slalom, 13th super-G
• Québec 2006 : 1st slalom, 10th giant slalom

More Achievements

• 9 Swedish championship titles :
  • 5 × slalom (2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2017)
  • 1 × giant slalom (2004)
  • 1 × parallel slalom (2006)
  • 2 × combination (2004, 2009)
• 1 podium in the European Cup
• 2 podium places in the Nor-Am Cup
• 15 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Maria Pietilä Holmner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Maria Pietilä-Holmner (Swedish, partly English)
• Maria Pietilä Holmner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Maria Pietilä Holmner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Maria Pietilä Holmner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on magazin.skiinfo.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Your surname does not actually contain a hyphen, but is usually spelled with a hyphen by the International Ski Federation and in the media.
2. ↑ Season over for Pietilä Holmner. sport.orf.at, January 18, 2012, accessed on January 18, 2012.
3. ↑ skionline.ch | The snow portal - Maria Pietilae Holmner has to ... Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ Maria Pietilä-Holmner declares her retirement after 15 years in the World Cup because of chronic back problems. (No longer available online.) Luzerner Zeitung , January 17, 2018, archived from the original on January 17, 2018 ; accessed on January 17, 2018 . 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.