Mirena Küng

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Mirena Küng Alpine skiing
Mirena Küng in summer training (2011)
Mirena Küng in July 2011
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 29th May 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Appenzell
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society SC Bernina Pontresina
status resigned
Medal table
Universiade 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Logo of the FISU Winter Universiade
silver Harbin 2009 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 4, 2011
 Overall World Cup 86th ( 2012/13 )
 Downhill World Cup 32nd (2012/13)
 Super G World Cup 46th ( 2011/12 )
 

Mirena Küng (born May 29, 1988 in Appenzell ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. She is also known as a folk musician .

Ski sports career

As the second youngest of seven siblings, Küng grew up in Steinegg near Appenzell. In December 2006 she drove her first FIS race . As an 18-year-old at the time, she was around three years behind the national competition, as she initially concentrated on completing school at St. Antonius High School in Appenzell. Appearances in the European Cup followed from December 2008. She initially drove in all disciplines and over time specialized in downhill and Super-G. At the Winter Universiade 2009 in Harbin , she won the silver medal in the Super-G. In February 2010 she won FIS races for the first time. At the Swiss Championships in 2010 , she finished 6th in the downhill and was by far the best starter without belonging to a national Swiss-Ski team.

On March 4, 2011 Küng made her debut in the Ski World Cup in Tarvisio and finished 31st in the super combined. She won her first World Cup points on December 4, 2011 in Lake Louise , where she finished 29th in the Super-G. On January 11, 2012, she won her only downhill European Cup in Bad Kleinkirchheim . After the good results in winter, she was accepted directly into the A-squad of Swiss-Ski in spring 2012 . She achieved the best World Cup result of her career on March 2, 2013 with 14th place in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In a training fall in Chile in September 2013, she suffered a dislocation of the shoulder and had to sit out the entire 2013/14 season. She was also unable to contest a large part of the 2014/15 season due to a knee injury.

In the 2015/16 World Cup winter, Küng made it into the points twice and also had six retirements. Due to the unsatisfactory results, she lost her management status and hired Karl Frehsner as a private trainer. However, further injuries (leg and arm fractures) made a return to racing impossible, so that she announced her retirement from top-class sport in April 2018.

music

Küng plays Appenzell string music and appears with her three sisters, her brother and one other musician in the formation "Geschwister Küng"; their instruments are violin and dulcimer .

successes

World cup

  • 1 place among the best 15

Ratings:

season total Departure Super G
space Points space Points space Points
2011/12 99 15th 42. 13 46. 2
2012/13 86. 31 32. 31 - -
2015/16 111. 8th 44. 8th - -

European Cup

  • 2010/11 season : 9th downhill classification
  • 2011/12 season : 3rd downhill classification
  • 10 placements among the top ten, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 11, 2012 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria Departure

Universiade

  • Harbin 2009 : 2nd downhill, 11th giant slalom, 15th slalom
  • Erzurum 2011 : 6th Super-G, 7th giant slalom, 24th slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mirena Küng wants to know. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . May 21, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Mirena Küng and her "third" career. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, September 12, 2014, archived from the original on May 15, 2018 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ch
  3. ↑ Mirena Küng fails again. Swiss radio and television , January 28, 2015, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Mirena Küng: Injured, sorted out, but not discouraged. Swiss Radio and Television , November 29, 2017, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Mirena Küng resigns. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . April 23, 2018, archived from the original on May 15, 2018 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ biography. Geschwister Küng website, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Küng, Mirena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer and folk musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Appenzell , Switzerland