Mateja Svet
nation
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia
birthday
16th August 1968 (age 52)
place of birth
Ljubljana , Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic
Career
discipline
Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status
resigned
End of career
1990
Medal table
Olympic games
0 ×
1 ×
0 ×
World championships
1 ×
1 ×
3 ×
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut
1984
Individual world cup victories
7th
Overall World Cup
6. ( 1987/88 , 1988/89 )
Super G World Cup
10. (1987/88)
Giant Slalom World Cup
1. (1987/88)
Slalom World Cup
8. (1987/88, 1988/89)
Combination World Cup
13. (1988/89)
Podium placements
1.
2.
3.
Super G
0
1
2
Giant slalom
6th
7th
1
slalom
1
3
1
Mateja Svet (born August 16, 1968 in Ljubljana ) is a former Slovenian and Yugoslav ski racer .
biography
Mateja Svet, who starts for Yugoslavia , contested her first World Cup race at the age of 16, and won her first race at the age of 17. At the World Ski Championships in 1987 in Crans-Montana , she won three medals; Silver in the giant slalom and two bronze medals in the Super-G and in the slalom . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary , she won the silver medal in slalom behind Vreni Schneider .
Her greatest success in title competitions was at the 1989 World Ski Championships in Vail when she became world champion in slalom. She also won a bronze medal in the giant slalom; however, only after Christelle Guignard had been found to be using doping substances .
She won a total of seven world cup races, including six giant slalom and one slalom; there were 22 more podium places. In the 1987/88 season she won the Giant Slalom World Cup. On June 2, 1990, she announced her retirement from top-class sport in Ljubljana .; she was only 21 years old at the time. Surprisingly, she turned up at the 1991 World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm as a customer advisor for a French company in order to bring her “Svet Collection” onto the market. It also indicated the possibility of starting in the US professional racing driver camp from the 1991/92 season.
successes
Olympic games
World championships
World Cup ratings
Mateja Svet once won the giant slalom discipline.
season
total
Super G
Giant slalom
slalom
combination
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Points
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Points
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Points
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Points
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Points
1983/84
86.
1
-
-
-
-
40.
1
-
-
1984/85
31.
40
-
-
18th
33
30th
7th
-
-
1985/86
7th
159
16.
19th
3.
84
9.
49
30th
7th
1986/87
7th
126
11.
27
6th
51
9.
55
-
-
1987/88
6th
167
10.
24
1.
87
8th.
56
-
-
1988/89
6th
154
-
-
2.
106
8th.
40
13.
8th
1989/90
7th
140
-
-
2.
89
12.
51
-
-
World Cup victories
Svet achieved a total of 22 podium places, including 7 wins:
Web links
Individual evidence
↑ Glossary “briefly noted”; fifth title (“Ski”) in “Kronenzeitung” from June 3, 1990, page 6 from the back; POS .: right column
^ "Mateja Svet as a customer advisor" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 25 of January 30, 1991, page 12, POS .: Column 2, top center
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