Rabea Grand

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Rabea Grand Alpine skiing
Rabea Grand (Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 2009)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 15th June 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Leuk , Switzerland
size 171 cm
Weight 67 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SV Albinen-Torrent
status resigned
End of career February 1, 2011
Medal table
World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Are 2007 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 23, 2005
 Overall World Cup 58th ( 2008/09 )
 Downhill World Cup 44th ( 2009/10 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 46th ( 2006/07 )
 Slalom World Cup 28th (2008/09)
 Combination World Cup 10th ( 2007/08 )
 

Rabea Grand (born June 15, 1984 in Leuk ) is a Swiss dramaturge and former ski racer . During her sports career she achieved her best results in slalom , super combined and downhill . Grand won the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2007 World Cup and was Swiss champion in giant slalom in 2009 . Since retiring from top-class sport, she has been active in the Swiss theater scene; In 2020 she will take over the co-management of Theaterhaus Gessnerallee .

biography

Skiing

Rabea Grand drove her first FIS races in December 1999. After she had celebrated her first victory two years later, she was also used in the European Cup , where she achieved her first top 10 result in February 2005. In the previous month she had already made her World Cup debut in the slalom of Maribor . At first she started in the World Cup only in the disciplines slalom and giant slalom and won her first World Cup points on March 10, 2006 with 23rd place in the Slalom in Levi .

In the European Cup Grand achieved a victory and another three podium places in the 2005/06 season , with which she won the downhill classification and was third in the overall classification. From next winter she started in the World Cup in addition to the slalom and the giant slalom - which she drove less and less - in downhill runs and super combinations. Initially she did not get any top placements in the World Cup, but at the 2007 World Cup in Åre , Sweden , she came in 13th in the super combined. In addition, she was 25th in the slalom. She celebrated the greatest success with her teammates in the team competition , in which she won the bronze medal. Shortly after the World Championships, she was among the fastest 20 in the World Cup for the first time and on December 22, 2007, she achieved her first top 10 result as tenth in the super combined in St. Anton am Arlberg . At the end of the 2007/08 season she was also in the top 15 twice more in the super combined, which has meanwhile become her strongest discipline.

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Grand achieved her best slalom result in the World Cup with eleventh place in Levi. She achieved the best ever World Cup result on February 20, 2009 with fourth place in the super combined in Tarvis . She was only two hundredths of a second short of a podium. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she was 14th in the slalom and in the super combined. In the giant slalom, like two years earlier, she was eliminated. At the end of winter she became Swiss champion in giant slalom.

In the 2009/10 season there were no further top placements. Grand was among the fastest 20 in three World Cup races, including 15th place in the downhill from Crans-Montana, her best World Cup result in this discipline. She was more successful in the European Cup. After she had won two slaloms in the previous year, she won the downhill classification in the 2009/10 season with a win, a second and a fifth place. Grand did not prepare for the following winter with the Swiss team, but with a private trainer. In the World Cup, however, she only managed a top 30 result in the first few months of the 2010/11 season . On February 1, 2011, Grand announced her retirement from ski racing. The reason for this was a dispute with the head coach of the Swiss national team.

Culture

During her sports career, Grand began a distance learning course in cultural studies at the University of Hagen , which she later completed with a master’s degree at the University of Lucerne . Through an internship at the Schloss Leuk Foundation, she joined the director of the theater festival Aua wir Leben in Bern and was a dramaturge for the 2015 edition for the first time . In February 2019 it was announced that Grand 2020 will take over the co-management of the renowned Gessnerallee theater in Zurich - together with Juliane Hahn and Michelle Akanji (sister of the soccer player Manuel Akanji ).

Grand is very critical of her time as a professional athlete. She says she was never really able to deal with the pressure and hierarchies. Skiing knows no solidarity, leaves people lonely and makes them lone fighters. On the one hand she was privileged, on the other hand she was locked in a golden cage.

successes

World championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 2 places in the top ten

European Cup

date place country discipline
February 8, 2006 Sarntal / Reinswald Italy Departure
January 20, 2009 Courchevel France slalom
March 13, 2009 Crans-Montana Switzerland slalom
January 19, 2010 St. Moritz Switzerland Departure

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rabea Grand resigns. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 1, 2011, accessed on February 1, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Linus Schöpfer: «Never go back into this system». Tages-Anzeiger , February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Feller: Boards that mean the world. Berner Zeitung , April 27, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rabea Grand is stepping down from her active career as a ski racer with immediate effect. Radio Rottu Oberwallis , January 31, 2011, accessed on February 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Alexandra Kedves: Frau Macht Theater. Tages-Anzeiger , February 7, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grand, Rabea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dramaturge and former ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Leuk , Switzerland