Mateja Svet

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Mateja Svet Alpine skiing
nation Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia
birthday 16th August 1968 (age 52)
place of birth LjubljanaYugoslaviaYugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia 
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1990
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Calgary 1988 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Crans-Montana 1987 Giant slalom
bronze Crans-Montana 1987 Super G
bronze Crans-Montana 1987 slalom
gold Vail 1989 slalom
bronze Vail 1989 Giant slalom
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
space Points space Points space Points space Points space 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:

date place country discipline
February 8, 1986 Jasná Czechoslovakia Giant slalom
March 22, 1986 Bromont Canada Giant slalom
January 30, 1988 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia Giant slalom
January 31, 1988 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia slalom
March 3, 1988 Saalbach Austria Giant slalom
January 20, 1990 Maribor Yugoslavia Giant slalom
5th February 1990 Veysonnaz Switzerland Giant slalom

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Glossary “briefly noted”; fifth title (“Ski”) in “Kronenzeitung” from June 3, 1990, page 6 from the back; POS .: right column
  2. ^ "Mateja Svet as a customer advisor" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 25 of January 30, 1991, page 12, POS .: Column 2, top center