Michaela Pitsch

Michaela Pitsch
nation	Switzerland
birthday
Career
status	resigned
End of career	2003 (international)
Medal table
SM medals 0 × 0 × 5 ×
Skeleton SM bronze 2000 St. Moritz bronze 2001 St. Moritz bronze 2005 St. Moritz bronze 2006 St. Moritz bronze 2008 St. Moritz
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup January 2003 Debut in the European Cup January 2001
last change: November 30, 2010

Michaela Pitsch is a former Swiss skeleton athlete .

Michaela Pitsch came to skeleton from Cresta sport . She first appeared at the Swiss Championships in 2000 and won the bronze medal right behind Tanja Morel and Maya Pedersen-Bieri . She repeated this success the following year behind Ursi Walliser and Morel. Also in 2005 and 2006 behind Pedersen-Bieri and Morel and in 2008 behind Morel and Jessica Kilian , she was able to win the bronze medal in the national championships.

Pitsch made her international debut in January 2001 at the second European Skeleton Cup race ever held on the artificial ice rink at Koenigssee , where she was 12th. In December 2001 she finished fourth in Altenberg, her first place in the top ten and at the same time her best result in the racing series. Pitsch contested her first and only race in the Skeleton World Cup in January 2003 in St. Moritz , where she finished 22. It was also the 2003 European Skeleton Championship , and the Swiss woman was 12. It was also the last international race in Pitsch remained active at the national level until the late first decade of the 2000s. Today she heads the skeleton school of the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina .

Web links

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from October 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )