Stephanie Brunner comes from Tux and currently lives in Innsbruck . It starts for the WSV Hippach . On January 12, 2011, she made her European Cup debut in the downhill from Zauchensee . In the following season she was able to win an FIS race for the first time. Just a few days after her 18th birthday, she won the gold medal in slalom at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Roccaraso . After moderate results, she managed to establish herself in the extended top in the 2013/14 season and finished sixth in the giant slalom ranking. Three years after her world championship title, she won the silver medal in the 2015 junior class both in giant slalom and with the team. She won her first European Cup on December 7, 2015 in the giant slalom in Trysil . After four more victories in this discipline, she finished the 2015/16 season in second place overall. In addition, she won the giant slalom classification. On January 26, 2017, she was able to win a Super-G for the first time in Davos .
First years in the World Cup
Brunner made her World Cup debut as the reigning junior world champion in Schladming slalom on March 17th, 2012. It took almost two years before she was used again in the World Cup. It took another one and a half years until she was able to conquer her first points in the giant slalom in Aspen on November 27, 2015 with 20th place. In the next two giant slalom runs in Åre and Courchevel , she also placed in the top 30. In Flachau she achieved her best result to date with fifth place. In the same season she achieved her first top result in another discipline in Soldeu with seventh place in the combination . At the end of March, she surprisingly won her first national title in a very busy slalom race .
On October 22nd, 2016, Brunner finished fourth in the giant slalom in Sölden . After further good placements in her favorite discipline, she also scored in slalom for the first time with 20th place at Semmering . At the World Championships in St. Moritz , she finished fifth both with the team and in the giant slalom. In the season 2017/18 she started successfully with a new fourth in Sölden and eighth place in Levi , her first top-10 result in a slalom. After mixed seasonal performances, she retired from the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in both slalom and giant slalom. In the first Olympic team competition she was set up as a substitute driver and won the silver medal together with Manuel Feller , Katharina Gallhuber , Katharina Liensberger , Michael Matt and Marco Schwarz . In March 2018, Brunner achieved her first top 10 placement in this discipline with eighth place in the Super-G of Crans-Montana . With fifth place in the combination, she achieved another personal best the next day. At the Austrian downhill championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on March 20, Brunner suffered a cruciate ligament and meniscus tear in his left knee.
At the beginning of the next season, she achieved her first podium finish with third place in the giant slalom in Killington . After finishing in the top six in each of the first four giant slaloms of the season, she injured her left knee again. On January 11, 2019, she fell during a training run in Pozza di Fassa and tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial meniscus, which meant that she was out for the rest of the World Cup season. During summer training in Ushuaia , she suffered another tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee just seven months later.
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