Stephanie Santer

Stephanie Santer
Stephanie Santer (2008)
nation	Italy
birthday	11th September 1981 (age 38)
place of birth	Brunico , Italy
size	178 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
job	Student
society	ski club Toblach
National squad	since 1999
status	active
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 8, 2001  Overall World Cup 124th (2005/06)  Distance World Cup 92nd (2005/06)
last change: October 29, 2010

Stephanie Santer (born September 11, 1981 in Bruneck ) is an Italian cross-country skier . Like her two older sisters Nathalie Santer and Saskia Santer, Santer also has Belgian citizenship, but starts for her country of birth, Italy.

Career

Stephanie Santer competed in her first cross-country skiing competition at the age of five. Unlike her sisters, she later did not switch to biathlon , but remained a cross-country skier. In 1999 she became a member of the Italian national team, a year later she made her debut at the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso , Slovakia , where, however, she could not place in the front field at her two starts. After better results in the following winter, the Italian Winter Sports Federation used it for the first time in the World Cup in December 2001 . At two competitions in Italy she was part of the national group , so she was one of the runners who could be nominated by the organizing nation. Santer finished the races in the rear 75 and 77, but left several teammates - such as the four years older later world champion Arianna Follis - behind.

In the subsequent seasons, there were more isolated World Cup starts, but Santer never reached the points, the first 30 places. Her appearances in the Continental Cup and FIS races were more successful , where the Italian won several competitions. Her first - and to date (2010) only - World Cup point she secured at the end of December 2005 in a freestyle race in Nové Město na Moravě . There she finished 30th, just 2.2 seconds ahead of the French Cécile Storti , who was 31st.

2006 Winter Olympics

Two months later, the 2006 Winter Olympics were due in Turin . For them, Nathalie, Saskia and Stephanie Santer decided to be the first trio of sisters to compete in the Olympics. When Stephanie Santer at a preparatory race in Davos crashed into a tree and a broken leg but drew upon, they had to pause for a month, so she could not participate in the Olympics.

In the next few years, too, Santer did not achieve a breakthrough. Several times she took over the position of the starting runner of the Italian relay, with which she achieved a good fifth place as the best result in November 2007. She also took part in the 2007 World Ski Championships in Sapporo . There she placed 31st in the 30-kilometer mass start in the classic technique. In the winter of 2007/08 Santer could no longer prevail against the national competition when it came to the nominations for the first edition of the Tour de Ski . From the 2008/09 season she was no longer included in the national team and only received one more World Cup start in January 2009.

Since 2011 she has been starting more and more marathon races and was able to take second place in the 2011/2012 season at the Transjurassienne and Birkebeinerrennet . At the Marcialonga and Finlandia-hiihto , she took third place. She won the overall ranking of the Cross-Country Skiing Marathon Cup 2011/12 , which was the greatest success of her career to date.

After Saskia and Nathalie Santer's careers ended in 2006 and 2008, Stephanie Santer is the last of the three sisters who still actively participates in races.

Web links

• Stephanie Santer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Santers want to start in a pack of three at the Olympics on handelsblatt.com. Released October 10, 2005.
2. ↑ Santer, Olimpiadi sono già finite on tgcom.mediaset.it. Released February 5, 2006.
3. ↑ Nadine Gärtner: Trouble about Italian Tour de Ski nominations  ( 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. on xc-ski.de. Released December 27, 2007.