Nadia Styger
Nadia Styger 
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| birthday | 11th December 1978 (age 41) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Zug , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 171 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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| society | SV Sattel-Hochstückli | ||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | June 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
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Nadia Styger (born December 11, 1978 in Zug ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She was a six-time Swiss champion in super-G and downhill skiing . She won four races in the World Cup .
biography
Styger celebrated the first international success of her career in 1997 at the Junior World Championships in Schladming , where she came third in the downhill. In the next few years her career was interrupted several times by serious injuries. After she was unable to contest races for the entire 1997/98 season due to injury, she had to pause for two months in the winter of 1999/2000 due to a cruciate ligament and meniscus injury. After another knee injury in November 2000 while training in Lake Louise , she also missed the rest of that winter, and after a cruciate ligament tear at the giant slalom in Sölden in October 2001, the 2001/02 season came to an early end for her.
In February 1999, Styger started in the World Cup for the first time , a week later she made people sit up and take notice with eleventh place in the St. Moritz World Cup run . After numerous injuries, she was finally able to establish herself among the world's best in the 2003/04 season , on March 11, 2004, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in the Super-G in Sestriere . In the 2005/06 and 2009/10 seasons , she reached third place in the Super G World Cup.
Styger has taken part in four Alpine World Ski Championships so far. In 2003 she was 20th in the giant slalom in St. Moritz . Two years later she finished eighth in the Super-G and ninth in the downhill at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina . At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , she was fourth in the downhill and seventh in the Super-G. Despite a failure in her run, she won the bronze medal with the Swiss team in the final team competition . With her victory on February 22, 2008 in Whistler Mountain , where she beat Lindsey Vonn by 0.01 sec., She also ended an almost 6-year-long lack of victory for the Swiss women in a World Cup downhill (the last time Corinne Rey-Bellet had on 2 March 2002 won in Lenzerheide ). - At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she only started in the downhill, but did not finish. At the Olympic Games in Turin in 2006 she reached fifth place in the downhill (also 24th in the giant slalom and 35th in the Super-G) and in 2010 in Vancouver, sixth in the Super-G and twelfth in the downhill.
On November 19, 2010, Styger suffered an open lower leg fracture during giant slalom training in Nakiska . She was out for the entire 2010/11 season. On June 28, 2011, she announced her retirement as a ski racer. She opens a fitness studio in her home town of Sattel (Canton Schwyz).
successes
Olympic games
- Turin 2006 : 5th downhill, 24th giant slalom, 35th Super-G
- Vancouver 2010 : 6th Super-G, 12th Downhill
World championships
- St. Moritz 2003 : 20th giant slalom
- Santa Caterina 2005 : 8th Super-G, 9th descent
- Åre 2007 : 3rd team competition, 4th downhill, 7th Super-G
World Cup ratings
- 2003/04 season : 6th super-G classification, 8th downhill classification
- 2005/06 season : 3rd Super-G classification
- 2006/07 season : 6th downhill classification
- 2007/08 season : 6th downhill classification
- Season 2009/10 : 3rd Super G World Cup
World Cup victories
- 6 podium places in individual races, including 4 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| March 11, 2004 | Sestriere | Italy | Super G |
| December 9, 2005 | Aspen | United States | Super G |
| March 3, 2006 * | Hafjell | Norway | Super G |
| February 22, 2008 | Whistler | Canada | Departure |
* at the same time as Michaela Dorfmeister and Lindsey Kildow
- 1 podium in team competitions
European Cup
- 1998/99 season : 4th overall ranking, 4th downhill ranking, 5th Super-G ranking
- 3 podium places, including 1 victory
Junior World Championships
- Voss 1995 : 32nd departure
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 15th Super-G, 19th descent
- Schladming 1997 : 3rd descent, 14th Super-G
More Achievements
- Three-time Swiss downhill champion (2003, 2005, 2006)
- Three-time Swiss champion in Super-G (1999, 2003, 2006)
- 13 victories in FIS races (12 × giant slalom, 1 × downhill)
Web links
- Website by Nadia Styger
- Nadia Styger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Nadia Styger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Nadia Styger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nadia Styger: Open leg - immediately surgery in Canada - World Cup winter over . www.skionline.ch, November 19, 2010, accessed on November 20, 2010
- ↑ Unlucky Nadia Styger has had enough - resignation . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 28, 2011, accessed on June 28, 2011
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| SURNAME | Styger, Nadia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zug , Switzerland |