Roger Vidosa

Roger Vidosa
Full name	Roger Vidosa Riba
nation	Andorra
birthday	February 29, 1984
place of birth	La Massana
size	184 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination
society	Arinsal Pal
status	active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 20, 2007  Overall World Cup 129th ( 2008/09 )  Combination World Cup 40th (2008/09)
last change: February 15, 2013

Roger Vidosa Riba (born February 29, 1984 in La Massana ) is an alpine skier from Andorra . His strengths lie in the technical disciplines of giant slalom and slalom , but he also drives downhill and super-G .

biography

Vidosa mainly competes in FIS races and has been active in the European Cup since 2004 . To date, he has won seven FIS races, but was only twice in the top 30 of the top 30 (28th place in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen slalom on February 28, 2008 and 27th place in the Formigal slalom on March 16, 2011). In the World Cup Vidosa rarely starts for the first time in 2007 in the departure of Val d'Isere . At the end of 2008 , also in Val-d'Isère, he achieved 22nd place in the super combination on the World Cup slope La face de Bellevarde and thus his only place in the World Cup points. After Alex Antor, he is only the second Andorran to win World Cup points.

Roger Vidosa took part in three world championships ( Bormio 2005 , Åre 2007 and 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) and represented Andorra at the Olympic Games in Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010 . His best World Cup placements are two 28th places in the super combinations in 2007 and 2011, and his best Olympic result is a 25th place in the super combination in 2010.

Balance sheet

winter Olympics

• Turin 2006 : 27th slalom, 28th combination, 50th descent
• Vancouver 2010 : 25th super combined, 33rd super G, 48th downhill

World championships

• Bormio 2005 : 36th slalom, 39th giant slalom
• Åre 2007 : 28th super combination, 46th downhill, 55th super-G
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 28th Super Combination, 29th Super G
• Schladming 2013 : 40th giant slalom

Junior World Championships

• Tarvisio 2002 : 39th Super-G, 52nd downhill
• Briançonnais 2003 : 47th giant slalom, 54th downhill, 62nd Super-G
• Maribor 2004 : 40th downhill, 53rd Super-G, 55th giant slalom

More Achievements

• A placement among the top 30 in the World Cup
• Two placements among the top 30 in the European Cup
• Andorran champion in slalom (2004, 2007, 2008, 2011), giant slalom (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) and super-G (2010)
• Seven victories in FIS races

Web links

• Roger Vidosa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Roger Vidosa in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Roger Vidosa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )