Sophie Rodriguez

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Sophie Rodriguez Snowboard
Full name Sophie Rodriguez
nation FranceFrance France
birthday July 7, 1988
place of birth Échirolles, Isère
size 168 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
discipline halfpipe
society CO 7 Laux
status active
Medal table
Snowboard World Cup 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
University medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
EYOF medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Snowboard world championships
bronze 2013 Stoneham halfpipe
FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships
gold 2004 Klinovec halfpipe
gold 2005 Zermatt halfpipe
gold 2005 Zermatt Snowboard cross
gold 2008 Valmalenco halfpipe
Logo of the FISU Winter Universiade
silver 2011 Erzurum halfpipe
Olympic rings European Youth Olympic Festival
gold 2005 Monthey halfpipe
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup March 8, 2003
 World Cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 13th ( 2005/06 )
 Freestyle World Cup 3rd ( 2012/13 )
 Snowboard cross world cup 15th ( 2004/05 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 3. ( 2005/06 , 2008/09 , 2012/13 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Snowboard cross 0 0 1
 halfpipe 2 5 8th
last change: August 31, 2015

Sophie Rodriguez (born July 7, 1988 in Échirolles , Département Isère ) is a French snowboarder . It mainly starts in the halfpipe discipline , sometimes also in snowboard cross .

Career

Sophie Rodriguez won her first titles in the 1997/1998 season at the age of nine in the French championships, with the “chicks” in the halfpipe and snowboard cross, in the following season also in the parallel competition and a year later the combination. Until 2006, she remained dominant in her respective age group in France. She won the first national championships for seniors in 2003 in combination and in March 2004 in Valloire in halfpipe. From 2001 she competed internationally in FIS races . She competed in her first Junior World Championships as the youngest participant in February 2003, when the American Lindsey Jacobellis won ahead of Silvia Mittermüller in Prato Nevoso , she was fourteenth and also second in the youth world championships. A month later she made her debut in Serre Chevalier in the World Cup with a second place behind the Austrian Nicola Pederzolli and in front of Paulina Ligocka from Poland. She started the 2003/2004 season with a tenth place in Valle Nevado , before she won five FIS races in a row - three times halfpipe and twice boardercross and celebrated her first World Cup victory in Kreischberg in January 2004 in a competition in which she was again the youngest participant in front of her teammate Angèle Clavet . Three weeks later she achieved her greatest success to date when she became junior world champion in the halfpipe in Klínovec in the Czech Republic . In March she made it onto the podium again in the World Cup, this time finishing second in Bardonecchia .

The 2004/05 season was even more successful for Rodriguez. She started the World Cup with a sixth place in Chile and was also able to climb a podium for the first time in boardercross as third in Nassfeld-Hermagor in December . The World Championships in Whistler Mountain followed . She was able to achieve respectable results both in the cross with tenth place and in Doriane Vidal's victory in the halfpipe with ninth place. In another five consecutive World Cup starts she was in the top ten with a second place in the halfpipe competition in Sungwoo as a highlight. The season ended with the Junior World Championships, which she completed as the most successful participant with the titles in snowboard cross and the halfpipe. With these results she achieved fifth place in the halfpipe discipline ranking of the World Cup, three places better than last year. In the season boardercross she was still fifteenth. In the same year she was first in the half pipe at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Monthey . In the 2005/2006 season she was able to improve again in the halfpipe discipline with third place and reached thirteenth place overall. She started in a total of ten World Cup races. Two third places and four top ten results meant that Rodriguez qualified for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . There she could not board the top ten as the second best French woman with a thirteenth place; Although she stayed ahead of Cécile Alzina (19th place), her older teammate Doriane Vidal made eighth place. At the end of the season, Rodriguez managed a victory in snowboard cross and second place in the halfpipe at the French championships.

In February 2007, after a rather moderate start to the 2006/07 season , Rodriguez injured himself in boardercross at the World Cup in Furano . She ended the season with a ruptured cruciate ligament and focused on graduation as she convalesced . Only shortly before the turn of the year could she start the 2007/08 season, initially in the Nor-Am Cup . But at the end of January in Bardonecchia, she managed to make the jump to the World Cup podium again, she finished third and was followed by two top ten places and a third place in Calgary . In March 2008 in Valmalenco , she dominated the halfpipe competition when she won her fourth junior world title and a short time later when she won the French championship. She started the 2008/09 season with twelfth place in Cardrona (New Zealand); second place at the European Cup in Saas-Fee was followed by third place, the first World Cup podium of the season at the same location. At the 2009 World Championships in Gangwon , she finished fourteenth in the halfpipe, but did not start in boardercross. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , she came back on the podium with third place in the halfpipe at the World Cup in Saas-Fee. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was fifth in the halfpipe. In March 2010 she won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games Europe 2010 in Tignes . The following year she finished 12th at the Snowboard World Championships 2011 in La Molina and won the silver medal in the halfpipe at the Winter Universiade 2011 in Erzurum . In the World Cup, she finished fourth twice and sixth once and reached ninth place in the Freestyle World Cup. After first place in the European Cup in Saas-Fee at the beginning of the 2011/12 season, she achieved places three and five in the World Cup and thus achieved sixth place in the Halfpipe World Cup and in the Freestyle World Cup. In April 2012 she became French champion in the halfpipe. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season she finished second at the World Cup in Cardrona. At the season highlight of the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham , she won the bronze medal in the halfpipe. At the following World Cup in Sochi she came in third place. At the end of March 2013 she won her second World Cup victory in Sierra Nevada and at the end of the season she finished third in both the Freestyle World Cup and the Halfpipe World Cup. In April 2013, as in the previous year, she became French champion in the halfpipe. The following year she finished seventh in the halfpipe at the Winter X Games 2014 in Aspen and at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and was again French champion in the halfpipe. In the World Cup, she finished in the top ten three times and reached tenth place in the Freestyle World Cup and sixth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the Snowboard World Championships in 2015 on Kreischberg , she achieved fifth place in the halfpipe. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she came third at the World Cup in Cardrona. In the further course of the season she finished ten and eleven in the World Cup and reached eighth place in the Halfpipe World Cup at the end of the season. In February 2016 she was seventh at the X-Games Oslo 2016 .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

European Youth Olympic Festival

  • Monthey 2005: 1st halfpipe

Winter Universiade

  • Erzurum 2011: 2nd halfpipe

World cup

  • 16 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place discipline
1. January 23, 2004 AustriaAustria Kreischberg halfpipe
2. March 27, 2013 SpainSpain Sierra Nevada halfpipe

European Cup

  • 3 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place discipline
1. January 29, 2006 FranceFrance Montgenèvre halfpipe
2. October 27, 2011 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Saas-Fee halfpipe

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Snowboard: rencontre avec… Sophie Rodriguez ( French ) Fédération Française de Ski. October 18, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2009.