Susanne Riesch

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Susanne Riesch Alpine skiing
Susanne Riesch in January 2010
Susanne Riesch in January 2010
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 8th December 1987 (age 32)
place of birth Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
size 181 cm
Weight 79 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , combination
society Partenkirchen ski club
status resigned
End of career January 6, 2015
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 5, 2006
 Overall World Cup 25th ( 2009/10 )
 Slalom World Cup 7th (2009/10)
 Combination World Cup 38th ( 2008/09 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 0 0 2
 team 1 0 0
 

Susanne Riesch (born December 8, 1987 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German ski racer . She is the sister of Maria Höfl-Riesch and mainly drove slalom and giant slalom .

biography

Riesch contested her first FIS race at the age of 15 . She has been competing in the European Cup since February 2004 . Also in February 2004 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Maribor , Slovenia , and finished 17th in the slalom. In March 2005 Riesch tore a cruciate ligament . In 2006 she became German youth champion in slalom .

After a first sporadic appearance in the World Cup slalom in Ofterschwang in February 2006, in which she failed to qualify for the second round, she finally moved up to the German World Cup squad for the 2006/07 season . Right at the start of the season, she surprisingly finished fifth in the slalom in Levi, Finland . Riesch took part in the 2007 World Championships in Åre and in the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère in slalom, but was eliminated in the first round. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season Riesch reached fourth place in the Levi and Aspen slaloms . On December 13th, 2009 she managed to finish third in the slalom of Åre and her first podium in the World Cup. The second she reached on January 3, 2010 in the slalom of Zagreb , where she was again third. With these good results she qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , where she started in slalom and hoped to win a medal. In the race, she was eliminated in fourth place in the second run. She finished the Slalom World Cup in seventh position. In March 2010 she became German champion in giant slalom and a year later in super combined.

In the 2010/11 season Riesch's best World Cup result was fourth place in the first slalom in Levi. In the Slalom World Cup she fell back to 13th place. At the 2011 World Championships in her home town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she was eliminated in the second slalom run after she had finished the first run in twelfth position. With the German team she won on March 20, 2011 at the season finale in Lenzerheide the team competition in front of Italy and Austria, which is only part of the Nations Cup .

In September 2011 Riesch suffered a fracture of the left tibial head , a cruciate ligament tear and a meniscus injury during downhill training in Chile . She therefore had to pause the entire 2011/12 season. Due to the severity of the injury, she could not return to the World Cup in the 2012/13 season.

She made her comeback in the 2013/14 season , but had to undergo another knee operation in November 2013. Riesch did not qualify for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi in her favorite discipline, slalom. On January 6, 2015, she ended her active career.

Riesch is a niece of bobsleigh driver Wolfgang Zimmerer .

successes

Susanne Riesch (2010)

World cup

European Cup

  • 2 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 10, 2008 Melchsee-Frutt Switzerland slalom

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2008/09 season : 4th slalom ranking
  • 5 podium places, including 4 wins

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Susanne Riesch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of February 9, 2010: Double interview Maria and Susanne Riesch - The men lack the hardness
  2. ^ Out of season for Susanne Riesch. German Ski Association, September 17, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ 16 months of hope and fear: Riesch ends the season.  ( 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. Stern.de , January 3, 2013, accessed January 5, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  
  4. ^ Alpine skiing: Next setback for Susanne Riesch , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 19, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2014
  5. ^ Alpine skiing: Höfl-Riesch awards podium place in Flachau , In: Spiegel Online , January 14, 2014, accessed on February 20, 2014
  6. ↑ Susanne Riesch ends her career. www.sport1.de, January 6, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Riesch, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany