Sabrina Simader

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Sabrina Wanjiku Simader Alpine skiing
nation KenyaKenya Kenya
birthday 13th April 1998 (age 22)
place of birth Kilifi , Kenya
size 173 cm
job Ski racer
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Kenya National Ski Team
Trainer Christian Reif
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 7, 2017
last change: February 27, 2019

Sabrina Wanjiku Simader (born April 13, 1998 in Kilifi , Kilifi County ) is a professional alpine ski racer . In 2017 she was the first Kenyan to take part in the Alpine Ski World Cup and Alpine World Ski Championships . At the 2018 Winter Olympics , she was the first female athlete to represent Kenya in alpine skiing competitions.

Life

Sabrina Simader was born in the Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi . At the age of three, she and her mother moved to St. Johann am Wimberg in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel . She learned to ski at the in-house lift of her adoptive father Josef Simader, who also acted as her first trainer. At the age of ten she was first club champion at the Hansberg . The family later moved to Haus im Ennstal , from where Sabrina attended the Schladming main ski school. In the summer of 2012, her stepfather suffered a fatal heart attack .

Simader is the only athlete on the Kenya Ski Team. Since the sudden death of her father, she has been looked after by ex- ÖSV trainer Christian Reif, who has already trained Alexander Khoroschilow .

Simader celebrated her first successes in 2012 with the Styrian student championship titles in super-G , giant slalom and combined . She achieved a respectable success in March 2015 as a downhill seventh at the German Championships . In February 2016 she took part in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer , where she finished 20th in the combined, 23rd in the Super-G and 26th in the giant slalom.

On January 7th 2017 Simader celebrated her World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Maribor . She was the first Kenyan woman to take part in a race in the Alpine Ski World Cup, thus generating a lot of media interest. Only four days later she achieved her best result so far in an international race in an FIS slalom at the same location with seventh place.

One month after her World Cup debut, she competed in St. Moritz for the first time as part of the Alpine World Ski Championships . In the Super-G she finished 39th. In giant slalom and slalom, she missed the qualification for the second round and finished in shared 60th and 50th place.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Simader was the first Kenyan to compete in alpine Olympic competitions . After carrying the Kenyan flag at the opening ceremony , she competed in the giant slalom on February 15. In the Super-G she was ranked 38th.

Sabrina Simader speaks three languages, German , English and Kikuyu .

At the first Black Austrian Awards , which were presented for the first time in 2018, Simader received the prize in the sports category .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 2 victories in FIS races
  • Three-time Styrian youth champion (Super-G, giant slalom and combined 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Now Sabrina Simader is living her dream. Kleine Zeitung , December 25, 2015, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sabrina Simader - Africa and Ski Sports. ServusTV , 2016, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ "Steirerin" Simader premiered in Marburg. Kleine Zeitung , January 7, 2017, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Kenya's one-woman team thrilled at the World Ski Championships. WeltN24 , February 7, 2017, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Kenya thanks to the girl from Upper Austria before debut in the Ski World Cup! Kronen Zeitung , September 22, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Sabrina Simader: "Cool Runnings" made in Styria. Laola1.tv , February 18, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Simader fulfills her dream of the Olympics in Pyeongchang. Sky Sport Austria , January 31, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  8. ↑ "I grew up in the mountains as well". Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , February 6, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Black Austrian Awards 2018 , accessed on June 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Simader, Sabrina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simader, Sabrina Wanjiku (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Kilifi , Kilifi County