Piera Hudson

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Piera Hudson Alpine skiing
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
birthday 7th February 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Hastings , New Zealand
size 167 cm
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom , slalom ,
combination
society Wanaka Ski and Snowsports Club
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 21, 2015
 Overall World Cup 127th ( 2018/19 )
 Slalom World Cup 55th (2018/19)
last change: March 17, 2019

Piera Hudson (born February 7, 1996 in Hastings ) is a New Zealand ski racer . The multiple New Zealand champion and World Cup participant mainly starts in the technical disciplines of giant slalom and slalom .

biography

Piera Hudson comes from Hastings on the North Island of New Zealand and starts for the Wanaka Ski Club. She competed in her first FIS races in Cardrona at the age of 15 and made her debut in the Australian New Zealand Cup on August 27, 2011 . In the following northern winter, she took part in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck . In slalom, super-combined and super-G , she was ranked 15, 16 and 17, in giant slalom she was eliminated. Towards the end of the same season, she played her first of five Junior World Championships in Roccaraso . In a total of 15 races, she achieved her best result in 2016 with rank 16 in the giant slalom in Sochi . In the coming seasons she established herself with good performances in the Australian New Zealand Cup, which she won for the first time in 2015.

In February 2013, around her 17th birthday, she took part in a world championship for the first time in Schladming , but could not achieve a countable result. Two years later, she made her World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Maribor . At the 2015 World Championships in Vail , she finished 39th, more than 11 seconds behind slalom winner Mikaela Shiffrin . In St. Moritz , she failed to reach the finish line in both giant slalom and slalom in 2017. She had to forego participation in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in favor of her teammate Alice Robinson .

On November 25, 2018, she won her first World Cup points by finishing 26th in the Killington slalom . This made her the first athlete since Claudia Riegler, who was born in Salzburg , to score for New Zealand in January 2003.

successes

World championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

World Cup ratings

season total slalom
space Points space Points
2018/19 127. 5 55. 5

Australia New Zealand Cup

  • 2011 season: 7th combined classification, 9th Super-G classification
  • 2013 season: 5th overall ranking, 4th Super-G ranking, 4th combined ranking, 8th giant slalom ranking
  • 2014 season: 5th overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking
  • 2015 season: 1st overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 1st slalom ranking
  • Season 2016: 8th overall ranking, 1st Super-G ranking
  • 2017 season : 9th slalom ranking
  • 2018 season : 3rd overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 3rd slalom ranking
  • Season 2019 : 2nd overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking, 3rd slalom ranking
  • 16 podium places, including 6 wins:
date place country discipline
August 26, 2014 Mount Hotham Australia Giant slalom
22nd August 2015 Perisher Australia slalom
August 24, 2015 Perisher Australia Giant slalom
September 6, 2016 Mount Hutt New Zealand Super G
September 6, 2016 Mount Hutt New Zealand Super G
4th September 2019 Cardrona New Zealand Giant slalom
  1. ↑ The races of the Australian New Zealand Cup are held annually in August and September (southern winter) and are already included in the coming international season.

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 10 New Zealand championship titles (Giant Slalom 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, Slalom 2014, 2015 and 2018, Super-G 2013 and 2016)
  • 3 New Zealand youth championship titles (giant slalom 2017 and 2018, slalom 2018)
  • 10 victories in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piera Hudson. New Zealand Olympic Committee, accessed November 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hudson, Piera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Hastings