Michelle Gisin

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Michelle Gisin Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 5th December 1993 (age 26)
place of birth Samedan , Switzerland
size 175 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Engelberg
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Pyeongchang 2018 Alpine combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver St. Moritz 2017 Alpine combination
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Québec 2013 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 29, 2012
 Overall World Cup 7. ( 2017/18 )
 Downhill World Cup 6. (2017/18)
 Super G World Cup 4. (2017/18)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 11. ( 2019/20 )
 Slalom World Cup 8. (2019/20)
 Combination World Cup 2. ( 2018/19 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 3
 Super G 0 1 0
 slalom 0 0 1
 combination 0 2 0
 team 2 0 0
last change: March 12, 2020

Michelle Gisin (born December 5, 1993 in Samedan ) is a Swiss ski racer . Initially she specialized in the disciplines of slalom and giant slalom , but in the 2017/18 season she concentrated on the speed disciplines. Her older sister Dominique and her older brother Marc were and are also ski racers. The greatest success of her career is the 2018 Olympic victory in the Alpine Combined.

biography

A week before her 16th birthday, Gisin first took part in FIS races in November 2008 . While she achieved good results in her first season, especially in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines , in the following two seasons she mainly focused on slalom and giant slalom. From January 2010 she was used in the European Cup , but initially remained without points. She achieved her first victory in an FIS race on January 3, 2011 when she won a giant slalom in Morzine . At the end of the 2011/12 season she was Swiss junior champion in the super combined in Zinal .

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Gisin achieved a significant increase in performance when she won three FIS races in what is now the strongest discipline, slalom, and was among the top ten in the European Cup for the first time. Because of this development, she got the opportunity to compete in the World Cup . At her World Cup premiere on December 29, 2012 at the Slalom in Semmering , she immediately qualified for the second round, but was eliminated shortly before the finish. She got her first World Cup points on January 15, 2013 with 9th place in the Flachau slalom , with the best running time in the second run. She took part in the 2013 World Championship in Schladming and won the silver medal in slalom at the 2013 Junior World Championship . On January 10, 2014, she achieved her first European Cup victory when she won the Melchsee-Frutt slalom . With three wins and three more podium places, she secured first place in both the overall European Cup and the slalom discipline. At the season finale in St. Moritz on March 18, 2016, she won the team competition in the Swiss team ahead of Germany and Sweden .

After she had almost exclusively skied slaloms in the World Cup, Gisin increasingly competed in the fast disciplines in the 2016/17 season. On December 16, she achieved the first World Cup podium of her career with second place in the combination of Val-d'Isère . One day later, she started a World Cup run for the first time at the same location and surprisingly finished seventh. At the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz , she won the silver medal in combination, with a gap of five hundredths of a second on winner Wendy Holdener . At the start of the 2017/18 season, Gisin was able to celebrate the first podium in this discipline as third in the 2nd downhill in Lake Louise on December 2nd, 2017. Somewhat surprisingly, the second podium in the 2017/18 season in the Super-G in St. Moritz followed on December 9, 2017, when she took second place behind her compatriot Jasmine Flury .

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Gisin won the gold medal in the Alpine Combined on February 22, 2018, four years after her sister Dominique became an Olympic Downhill Champion. In Crans-Montana , Gisin came second in the Alpine Combined and finished her most successful season to date with a seventh place in the overall World Cup ranking.

At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Gisin took second and third place in the two downhill runs in Lake Louise . After cartilage damage and a strained cruciate ligament, she had to end the season at the end of January.

In the 2019/2020 season, your skills flashed with third places in the slalom in Lienz and on the downhill in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . In the speed disciplines, however, she felt unsafe and braked a few races. In return, she finished five times in the top ten in the slalom, which brought her to eighth place in the discipline ranking.

Private

Michelle Gisin has been friends with the Italian ski racer Luca De Alipandini since 2014 .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 17 placements among the top five in individual races, including 8 podium places
  • 2 wins in team competitions

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2012/13 79. 39 - - - - - - 35. 39 - -
2013/14 82. 38 - - - - - - 31. 38 - -
2014/15 45. 144 - - - - 38. 14th 18th 130 - -
2015/16 44. 207 - - - - - - 14th 165 - -
2016/17 27. 324 28. 65 41. 14th - - 16. 141 5. 104
2017/18 7th 868 6th 240 4th 313 50. 5 13. 201 2. 109
2018/19 16. 442 9. 207 24. 70 36. 22nd 14th 143 - -
2019/20 8th. 591 24. 98 17th 92 11. 142 8th. 259 8th. 50

European Cup

  • 2013/14 season : 1st overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 5th super combination ranking
  • 8 podium places, including 3 wins:
No. date place country discipline
1. January 10, 2014 Melchsee-Frutt Switzerland slalom
2. January 21, 2014 Kirchberg in Tyrol Austria slalom
3. January 29, 2014 Sestriere Italy slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Breitenstein, Sarah Meier : Murisier, Gisin and Janka on underwear and yoga. In: Schweizer Illustrierte of February 8, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Three siblings, one passion: The secret of the Gisins. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 28, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Swiss-American combination (February 22, 2018)
  4. ↑ Philipp Bärtsch: Michelle Gisin wanted to win the Downhill World Cup, but her head slowed her down | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 23, 2020 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 17, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Sarah Meier: Michelle Gisin and friend Luca De Aliprandini talk about love. In: Swiss Illustrated. January 1, 2017, accessed April 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gisin, Michelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan