Selina Jörg

Selina Jörg
nation	Germany
birthday	24th January 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Sonthofen , Germany
size	173 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Soldier / Sergeant Major
Career
discipline	Parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom
society	SC Sonthofen
Trainer	Bernd Kroschewski
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × Snowboard World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × National championships 4 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Parallel giant slalom  Snowboard world championships gold 2019 Park City Parallel giant slalom  Snowboard Junior World Championships bronze 2005 Zermatt Parallel giant slalom gold 2008 Valmalenco Parallel slalom
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup February 6, 2005  World Cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 22. ( 2006/07 )  Parallel World Cup 2. ( 2017/18 , 2018/19 )  PGS World Cup 2. (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 )  PSL World Cup 2. (2017/18, 2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Parallel 3 9 6th
last change: April 11, 2020

Selina Jörg (born January 24, 1988 in Sonthofen ) is a German snowboarder in the parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom disciplines .

Jörg started at the age of 15 in low-class FIS races and was only nominated for the European and finally in February 2005 for the first time for the World Cup. Two months later she won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championship, in which she even won in 2008 and secured her first international title. In the meantime, she had won a World Cup race for the first time in January 2007 - at the same time the first and so far only time that she stood on a World Cup podium. After two German championship titles in 2008 and 2009, the Sonthofen resident qualified for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver at the beginning of the 2009/10 season.

Career

Promotion to the German national team (until 2006)

Jörg started snowboarding at an early age; she explained that she no longer knew exactly when. At the age of 14 she left her home region, the Allgäu , and switched to the sports boarding school in Berchtesgaden . At that point in time it was already clear to her that she wanted to become a professional snowboarder later. In December 2003 she made her debut in a low-class FIS race in the Austrian Kühtal at international level, where she finished 48th out of about 60 participants. In addition to starting at FIS races, the Sonthofen resident also took part in European Cup competitions and national championships in the years to come . In March 2004 she placed seventh at the Austrian championship - with international participation - and was therefore the best German. Shortly before, she had finished third in an FIS race for the first time, and a year later she won one for the first time.

In 2005 Jörg stopped snowboarding and concentrated on the parallel disciplines in which she caught up with the national top. In the parallel giant slalom, she secured fourth place at the German Championship in April 2005 and was therefore the best German, as only international starters were placed on the three podium places. The 17-year-old qualified for the Junior World Championships which will take place shortly afterwards in Zermatt, Switzerland . In the parallel giant slalom, she advanced to the semi-finals, where she was eliminated and won the “small final” for third place. With that Jörg won the bronze medal behind her team colleague Amelie Kober , who came in second. She was surprised by this result, but also said that the course had been set very rhythmically, which was entirely in keeping with her taste.

This success with the juniors also meant Selina Jörg's breakthrough in the German national team. As early as February 2005 she had her first short World Cup appearance, but in which she had missed points; From the winter of 2005/06 on , she regularly competed in the highest competition series. She secured her first World Cup points as eighteenth in Sölden in October 2005. In the same season she was third on a podium in the European Cup for the first time and was also German champion in the parallel slalom, albeit in the absence of Amelie Kober, who had recently won an Olympic silver medal would have. In contrast, she missed another Junior World Championship medal when she finished sixth at the Junior World Championships in South Korea in February 2006.

World Cup winner and junior world champion (2006 to 2009)

In the 2006/07 World Cup season , Jörg was placed in the top 30 several times. This was the first time that she qualified for the adult world championship, in which, however, she missed the top 30 at both starts. But the Sonthofen woman convinced at the World Cup in Nendaz , which was held at the end of January 2007 one week after the World Cup. In this competition - four days after her 19th birthday - she made it into a World Cup final for the first time in her career, defeating her Austrian competitor Heidi Neururer . Regarding her first World Cup victory, Jörg said: “I was really happy to have made it to the final at all. After I was in the top eight, I didn't care about anything and I stepped on the gas. ”The defeated Neururer also recognized the performance of the young Germans. In February 2007 Jörg was able to classify herself in the top ten two more times, which made her a good 22nd place in the overall World Cup and even 14th place in the Parallel World Cup. In terms of the number of points, this season was her most successful to date (as of 2010). Shortly before the end of the season, an injury and a bone splinter in the ankle prevented participation in the Junior World Championships.

The winter of 2007/08 also started successfully for Selina Jörg, who had started her training with the Bundeswehr in the summer . In the first competitions of the season she made it into the top ten two more times. At the place of her previous year's victory, in Nendaz, she finished fifth this time. At the World Cups in the new year 2008, the Sonthofen resident was less successful, she only reached the second round of the best sixteen once. But she showed a better performance at the Junior World Championships in Valmalenco in March 2008, the third and last for the now 20-year-old. While she was eliminated in the parallel giant slalom due to a broken bond, the next day she reached the final of the parallel slalom and won it against the Norwegian Hilde Katrine Engeli . The junior world title was her first international. In the following pre-Olympic season 2008/09 Jörg built on these good results, first became German champion and shortly afterwards reached a World Cup semi-final for the second time. In the final for third place, she lost to her teammate Anke Karstens , against whom she had previously won in the national championship. In January 2009, the adult world championships were on again . In contrast to 2007, when she did not even reach the top 30 places, this time she was ninth in the parallel slalom and thus best German.

Olympic qualification (from 2009)

As in the previous year, Jörg secured the German championship title at the beginning of the Olympic winter 2009/10 . On the same weekend she also won a European Cup. This streak of success also lasted at the first parallel World Cup of the season in Telluride , USA , which also offered the first opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver . To do this, all athletes had to meet the standard issued by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), which consisted of either finishing in the top 16 twice or in the top eight once. Behind Amelie Kobler, who was the best German in second, Selina Jörg was in seventh place and thus qualified early. In the quarterfinals, a fall prevented an even better placement. During the rest of the season before the Olympic Games, Jörg convinced several times, especially in several top ten results in the European Cup. At the last pre-Olympic World Cup in the German Sudelfeld , she didn't even qualify, but the head coach of the German Snowboard Association said: “That can happen, but her shape is right. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, she achieved fourth place in the parallel giant slalom after losing in the semi-finals to Nicolien Sauerbreij and in the race for third place against Jekaterina Ilyuchina .

In the first race of the 2010/11 season , Jörg finished sixth in the parallel slalom in Landgraaf . This was her best result of the season. At the Snowboard World Championships 2011 in La Molina she came in 19th place in the parallel slalom and eighth place in the parallel giant slalom. At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham she achieved 17th place in the parallel slalom and 15th place in the parallel giant slalom. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season she reached her second podium in the World Cup with third place in the parallel slalom in Carezza . Further top ten placements in the World Cup followed. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she finished 13th in the parallel giant slalom and 11th in the parallel slalom. She finished the season in eighth place in the parallel overall ranking.

At the 2015 Winter Universiade , Jörg won the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom.

In the 2017/18 season Jörg made 12 World Cup starts, 11 times in the top ten. She won second place in the parallel giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo and third and two in the parallel giant slalom in Bansko . In March 2018, she won her second World Cup victory in the parallel slalom in Winterberg and thus took second place in the parallel slalom world cup, parallel giant slalom world cup and parallel world cup. In the parallel giant slalom at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang on February 24, 2018, the 30-year-old won the silver medal behind Czech Ester Ledecká . and was awarded the silver bay leaf on June 7, 2018.

She opened the 2018/19 season with a 6th place in Bad Gastein. In the Slovenian town of Rogla, she narrowly beat Russian Natalia Sobolewa in the final and won a parallel giant slalom for the first time. At the World Championships in Park City, she was able to prevail in the final against Sobolewa and won the gold medal.

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 28, 2007	Nendaz	Parallel slalom
2.	17th March 2018	Winterberg	Parallel slalom
3.	19th January 2019	Rogla	Parallel giant slalom

World Cup overall placements

season	Parallel		Parallel giant slalom		Parallel slalom
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2004/05	19th	80.	-	-	-	-
2005/06	336	44.	-	-	-	-
2006/07	2364	14th	-	-	-	-
2007/08	1612	19th	-	-	-	-
2008/09	2242	11.	-	-	-	-
2009/10	1194	21st	-	-	-	-
2010/11	1635	20th	-	-	-	-
2011/12	2448	14th	-	-	-	-
2012/13	1460	16.	940	16.	760	13.
2013/14	1928	8th.	860	9.	1068	7th
2014/15	3290	6th	1260	7th	2030	6th
2015/16	1550	12.	590	12.	960	14th
2016/17	2010	15th	1590	11.	420	20th
2017/18	6010	2.	4320	2.	1690	2.
2018/19	5619.7	2.	3419.7	2.	2200	2.
2019/20	4930	3.	3190	2.	1740	3.

Web links

• Selina Jörg on the website of the German Snowboard Association
• Selina Jörg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Selina Jörg in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selina Jörg: Sporthilfe-Board instead of MP3-Player ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ German one-two at the Snowboard Junior World Championships
3. ↑ Selina Jörg wins the first World Cup victory of her career in the parallel slalom in Nendaz (SUI)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Alexander Bergmann Junior World Champion in PGS  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Selina Jörg is the new Junior Slalom World Champion  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Snowboarder Kober wins Olympic dress rehearsal mainpost.de on February 7, 2010
7. ↑ Ledecka writes snowboard history - silver for Jörg (February 24, 2018)
8. ↑ List with de Silbernene Lorbeerblatt award winners 2018 on the DOSB website
9. ↑ Jörg wins Snowboard World Cup in Rogla - third hole. Augsburger Allgemeine, January 21, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Sina Götz: The lucky charm is in the backpack . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 5, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 6, 2019]).