Pernilla Wiberg

Pernilla Wiberg
Pernilla Wiberg in December 1996
nation	Sweden
birthday	15th October 1970 (age 49)
place of birth	Norrkoping , Sweden
size	161 cm
Weight	67 kg
job	hotelier
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	April 13, 2002
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 4 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Albertville 1992 Giant slalom gold Lillehammer 1994 combination silver Nagano 1998 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Saalbach 1991 Giant slalom gold Sierra Nevada 1996 combination gold Sierra Nevada 1996 slalom bronze Sestriere 1997 Departure gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 combination silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 24  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1996/97 )  Downhill World Cup 4. (1996/97)  Super G World Cup 3. (1996/97)  Giant Slalom World Cup 3. ( 1990/91 )  Slalom World Cup 1. (1996/97)  Combination World Cup 1. ( 1993/94 , 1994/95 , 1996/97)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 2 5 1  Super G 3 3 2  Giant slalom 2 0 4th  slalom 14th 14th 7th  combination 3 1 0

Pernilla Christina Wiberg (born October 15, 1970 in Norrköping ) is a former Swedish ski racer . With two Olympic victories, four world championship titles and one overall World Cup victory, she is one of the most successful athletes of the 1990s. She is also one of seven runners who have won World Cup races in all five disciplines .

biography

As with her Swedish colleague Anja Pärson , the legendary Swedish ski racer Ingemar Stenmark has been her role model since she was a child . She is one of the most successful ski racers of the 1990s and was able to celebrate world cup victories in all five alpine disciplines.

Pernilla Wiberg is one of the most successful all-rounders in World Cup history because she was able to win in all disciplines in her career, also won medals in four different disciplines at World Championships and Olympic Games and also because she alongside Petra Kronberger , Anja Pärson , Lindsey Vonn and Tina Maze is the only female ski racer who managed to classify at least 4th in all five discipline World Cup rankings. But she was most successful in slalom, where she celebrated 14 victories and for several years was the toughest competitor of Swiss Vreni Schneider . She won the Slalom World Cup once and took second place five times, with the Swiss defeated three times.

The 1996/97 season was the Swede's most successful: that season she competed in all alpine races in every discipline, a total of 32 races, and finished in the top five 24 times. She won nine races that season, was second five times and third four times, making it a total of 18 podiums. Because of these results, she also managed to set a new point record in the overall World Cup this season, which, however, was narrowly exceeded by Janica Kostelić in the 2005/06 season . That was also the season when she was the only runner alongside Janica Kostelić and Tina Maze to be among the top five in all disciplines in one season. She won the overall World Cup, the Slalom World Cup and the Combination World Cup, third in the Super-G, fourth in the Downhill and fifth in the giant slalom. In the Super-G she had been relatively clear about the ranking until the season finale, but since she was eliminated in the last race, she had to give the little ball to the German Hilde Gerg .

She won the world championship in giant slalom at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , in 1992 she won gold in giant slalom at the Olympic Games in Albertville , and in 1994 she won the combination at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer . At the 1996 World Ski Championships in Sierra Nevada , she won the slalom and the combination , and in 1997 she won bronze in the downhill at the World Ski Championships in Sestriere . At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , she won the silver medal in the downhill. At the 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail , she also won gold in combination and silver in slalom.

Pernilla Wiberg was the first Swedish world champion and Olympic champion in the alpine area. She is also one of the few female ski racers to become world champion in three different disciplines. During her skiing career, however, she was often plagued by serious injuries such as cruciate ligament rupture , meniscus problems and broken ribs, which repeatedly set her back and certainly prevented further successes for the Swede. Especially the knee problems and the broken rib after her most successful season in 1997 gave her a big setback, so that she could not get quite fit for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Wiberg had to undergo a total of twelve knee operations in her career.

In 2002, she kicked at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City back. Since then she has been a co-commentator on Swedish television. She has a son and a daughter. Wiberg has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2002 and at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 she was therefore able to present her compatriot Anja Pärson with the gold medal, which she won in the slalom. In 1991 she was honored with the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal and in 1991 and 1992 with the radio sport Jerringpris .

Wiberg owns a hotel in Idre in the province of Dalarna County . She lives in Monaco .

successes

Olympic games

• Albertville 1992 : 1st giant slalom, 12th Super-G
• Lillehammer 1994 : 1st combination, 4th Super-G, 4th slalom, 9th descent
• Nagano 1998 : 2nd downhill, 11th giant slalom, 14th Super-G
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 12th Super-G, 14th Downhill

World championships

• Saalbach 1991 : 1st giant slalom, 6th slalom
• Sierra Nevada 1996 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 9th Super-G, 18th giant slalom, 21st descent
• Sestriere 1997 : 3rd downhill, 6th giant slalom, 7th Super-G
• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 1st combination, 2nd slalom, 4th giant slalom, 9th Super-G, 18th descent
• St. Anton 2001 : 7th Super-G, 18th descent

World Cup ratings

Pernilla Wiberg has won the overall World Cup once (1997), plus four other victories in disciplines.

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1989/90	45.	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-	17th	26th	-	-
1990/91	7th	140	-	-	-	-	3.	61	2.	79	-	-
1991/92	5.	821	-	-	28.	62	5.	314	2.	445	-	-
1992/93	24.	319	43.	17th	30th	32	17th	90	11.	180	-	-
1993/94	2.	1343	11.	136	5.	189	11.	218	2.	620	1.	180
1994/95	6th	816	12.	201	13.	140	38.	20th	2.	355	1.	100
1995/96	8th.	777	10.	252	19th	85	34.	26th	3.	414	-	-
1996/97	1.	1960	4th	412	3.	449	5.	229	1.	770	1.	100
1997/98	35.	229	29	29	36.	28	28.	41	24.	81	11.	50
1998/99	5.	924	14th	164	8th.	262	22nd	83	2.	415	-	-
1999/00	33.	331	22nd	128	21st	84	41.	50	28.	69	-	-
2000/01	59.	98	48.	5	23.	93	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	23.	360	10.	208	13.	103	57.	4th	-	-	12.	45

World Cup victories

Pernilla Wiberg has won a total of 24 world cup races (2 downhill runs, 3 Super-G, 2 giant slaloms, 14 slaloms, 3 combinations). There are also 23 second places and 14 third places.

Departure date place country March 12, 1997 Vail United States December 18, 1999 St. Moritz Switzerland Super G date place country 17th January 1994 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy December 1, 1996 Lake Louise Canada January 12, 1997 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria Giant slalom date place country March 10, 1991 Lake Louise Canada February 28, 1992 Narvik Norway combination date place country 5th February 1994 Sierra Nevada Spain March 12, 1995 Lenzerheide Switzerland February 2, 1997 Laax Switzerland

slalom date place country January 7, 1991 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria March 20, 1991 Waterville Valley United States December 6, 1992 Steamboat Springs United States December 12, 1993 Veysonnaz Switzerland January 6, 1994 Morzine France March 12, 1995 Lenzerheide Switzerland December 22, 1995 Veysonnaz Switzerland December 29, 1995 Semmering Austria December 28, 1996 Semmering Austria 4th January 1997 Maribor Slovenia January 19, 1997 Zwiesel Germany March 7, 1997 Mammoth Mountain United States March 16, 1997 Vail United States January 3, 1999 Maribor Slovenia

Junior World Championships

• Sälen 1987 : 24th giant slalom
• Madonna di Campiglio 1988 : 19th descent, 22nd Super-G, 26th giant slalom

Swedish championships

Pernilla Wiberg became Swedish champion nine times :

• Slalom: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1997
• Giant slalom: 1991 and 1997
• Super-G: 1992
• Departure: 1992

Web links

• Website by Pernilla Wiberg
• Pernilla Wiberg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Pernilla Wiberg in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Pernilla Wiberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )