Monika Bader
Monika Bader 
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| birthday | 9th March 1959 (age 61) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Trauchgau , Germany | ||||||||
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| discipline | Departure | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1980 | ||||||||
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Monika Bader (born March 9, 1959 in Trauchgau ) is a former German ski racer . At the end of the 1970s she was briefly one of the strongest downhill skiers in the German Ski Association .
biography
Bader grew up in the Allgäu . She learned to ski on a ski hill in the immediate vicinity of her parents' home. She competed in her first race at the age of ten. After some successes in the junior division, she made the leap into the German national ski team in 1975 at the age of 16. At the European Junior Championships in 1977 in Kranjska Gora , she won the bronze medal in the downhill.
In the World Cup , Bader managed the only placement of her career on the podium in December 1977 in the downhill run of Val-d'Isère , in which she finished third. Until 1980 she was able to place three more times in the top ten in World Cup races. In addition, she finished 10th in the 1978 World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , was European Cup winner and German runner-up in her specialist discipline. In 1980 she took part in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . She was so badly injured in the winter of 1980 that she had to end her career early.
Web links
- Monika Bader in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Monika Bader in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Monika Bader in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Bader, Monika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trauchgau |