Nicolien Sauerbreij

Nicolien Sauerbreij
Full name	Lotte Nicolien Sauerbreij
nation	Netherlands
birthday	July 31, 1979
place of birth	De Hoef
size	164 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Parallel giant slalom  Snowboard world championships silver 2011 La Molina Parallel slalom
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup November 28, 1996  World Cup victories 8th  Overall World Cup 1. ( 2007/08 )  Parallel World Cup 1. ( 2007/08 , 2009/10 )  PGS World Cup 6. ( 2012/13 )  PSL World Cup 10. ( 2001/02 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Parallel 8th 7th 7th
last change: August 23, 2014

Nicolien Sauerbreij (born July 31, 1979 in De Hoef , Netherlands ) is a Dutch snowboarder .

As the daughter of a ski instructor, Sauerbreij was already on skis at the age of 2. It was not until she was twelve that she switched to snowboarding. Just two years later at the Junior World Championship, she made her first major international appearance with a fourth place.

After initial successes, Nicolien Sauerbreij was the flag bearer for the Netherlands at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Nicolien Sauerbreij won several international snowboard competitions in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008. In 2008 she won the World Cup in parallel slalom and the Overall Snowboard World Cup . At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , she won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom . At the Snowboard World Championships 2011 in La Molina she won silver in the parallel slalom. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she came 20th in the parallel slalom and tenth in the parallel giant slalom.

In 2010 she was voted Sportswoman of the Year in the Netherlands .

Web links

• Nicolien Sauerbreij's website (Dutch)
• Nicolien Sauerbreij in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Nicolien Sauerbreij in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )