Matilda Rapaport

Career
Matilda Rapaport

nation	Sweden Sweden
birthday	January 29, 1986
place of birth	Stockholm , Sweden
job	Entrepreneur
date of death	18th July 2016
Place of death	Santiago , Chile
discipline	Freeride
society	Mälaröarnas Alpina SK
End of career	18th July 2016

Matilda Rapaport Hargin (born January 29, 1986 in Stockholm ; † July 18, 2016 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Swedish freeride athlete. From 2013 she started in the Freeride World Tour and won the Verbier Xtreme in the same year.

biography

Athletic career

Matilda Rapaport started skiing when she was two years old. The Stockholm native was a member of Mälaröarnas Alpina SK. After graduating from Åre Ski School , she earned an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics .

Rapaport was active as an alpine ski racer in her youth . Between 2002 and 2006 she competed in almost 100 FIS races in all disciplines and achieved five placements among the top ten. In addition, she took part in Swedish championships four times , her best result was downhill rank 16 in her last championships in 2006.

Rapaport gained fame as a freeride skier. In 2011 she won the Scandinavian Big Mountain Championships in Riksgränsen and was seen in several film productions by Austrian Sandra Lahnsteiner in the following years. In 2013 she qualified for the Freeride World Tour and immediately took second place in her first competition in Fieberbrunn . Thanks to a wildcard , she was also able to take part in the prestigious Verbier Xtreme, which she surprisingly won. In 2014 she was partially buried by an avalanche in Haines , Alaska and was only able to free herself with outside help. In the coming winters, she reached three more podiums on the World Tour and was fourth overall in 2016. She also managed a hotel in the Swiss Alps for three years, founded two companies in the consulting sector and worked as a columnist for the Swedish edition of Women's Health .

Avalanche death

In the summer of 2016, Rapaport was shooting the computer game Steep in the Chilean Andes . On July 14th, after a blizzard, she used the powder snow in the open terrain near Farellones and was buried under an avalanche. Although the film team immediately notified the rescue workers, they could only be rescued after 30 minutes. According to her manager Hakan Hansson, Rapaport had tried to escape the snow masses and did not find the time to deploy her avalanche airbag . The 30-year-old was flown to a hospital in Santiago and put into artificial deep sleep there . Her mother and her husband, the ski racer Mattias Hargin , whom she had married only three months earlier in Engelberg , immediately traveled to Chile. After four days in a coma, Matilda Rapaport died as a result of the lack of oxygen in her brain.

Her younger sister Helena Rapaport is active as a ski racer, her aunt is the actress Alexandra Rapaport .

successes

Victory at the Scandinavin Big Mountain Championships 2011 and 2016
Fourth of the Freeride World Tour 2016
1 win on the World Tour

Single results
year	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	Points	World Cup rank
2013	Canada -	Italy -	France -	United States -	Austria 2.	Switzerland 1.	2200	11.
2014	Italy -	France 2.	Austria 4th	United States 6th	Switzerland 5.		5625	5.
2015	France 5.	Austria 8th.	Andorra 8th.	United States -	Switzerland -		3885	9.
2016	France 3.	Austria 5.	Austria -	United States 2.	Switzerland 4th		7605	4th

Filmography

2013: Shades of Winter
2014: Pure
2015: A Skier Knows (Episode 4)
2016: Between

Web links

Commons : Matilda Rapaport - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Matilda Rapaport in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Matilda Rapaport on the Freeride World Tour website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Matilda Rapaport Hargin. Rapaport Hargin Foundation, accessed January 11, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Matilda Rapaport, an Extreme Skier, Is Dead at 30. The New York Times , July 28, 2016, accessed January 10, 2020 .
↑ Marion Schmitz: We pay tribute to Matilda Rapaport. Red Bull , July 18, 2016, accessed January 10, 2020 .
↑ Roman Stelzl: Hargin after avalanche drama: "Everything has changed for me". Tiroler Tageszeitung , February 12, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rapaport, Matilda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rapaport Hargin, Matilda (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish freeride athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH	18th July 2016
Place of death	Santiago de Chile

[rh-1] Matilda Rapaport Hargin. Rapaport Hargin Foundation, accessed January 11, 2020 .

[nyt-2] Matilda Rapaport, an Extreme Skier, Is Dead at 30. The New York Times , July 28, 2016, accessed January 10, 2020 .

[rb-3] Marion Schmitz: We pay tribute to Matilda Rapaport. Red Bull , July 18, 2016, accessed January 10, 2020 .

[4] Roman Stelzl: Hargin after avalanche drama: "Everything has changed for me". Tiroler Tageszeitung , February 12, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2020 .