Tamara Wolf (ski racer)

Tamara Wolf
nation	Switzerland
birthday	3rd November 1985
size	170 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , super G , giant slalom , slalom , super combination
society	Alpina St. Moritz
status	resigned
End of career	May 2011
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Briançonnais 2003 Departure  Winter Universiade gold Harbin 2009 Departure gold Harbin 2009 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut March 12, 2003  Overall World Cup 84th ( 2006/07 )  Downhill World Cup 35th (2006/2007)  Combination World Cup 42nd (2006/2007)

Tamara Wolf (born November 3, 1985 ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She became junior world champion in downhill in 2003 and achieved a top 10 place in the world cup . Her career was interrupted several times by injuries.

biography

Tamara Wolf took part in FIS races and national championships from winter 2000/2001 . She drove the first European Cup races in March 2002. After her first victory and several podium places in FIS races as well as three top 20 placings in the European Cup, the then 17-year-old was also able to compete in the 2003 Junior World Championship in France. There, on the first day of the competition, she won the gold medal in the downhill ahead of the Americans Lindsey Kildow and Julia Mancuso , who were one year older . She finished 17th in the giant slalom and 19th in the Super-G. As a junior world champion, she was also allowed to take part in the downhill World Cup finals in Lillehammer . In her World Cup debut, she finished 19th. The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation recognized Wolf as the young athlete of the year 2003.

In the years that followed, the career of the young Swiss hope was interrupted several times by serious injuries. In August 2003 she tore a cruciate ligament while training in Las Leñas, Argentina , which is why she had to take a break for the entire winter of 2003/2004. The next season 2004/2005 was for the Swiss end of January to the end, when she in a fall in the FIS giant slalom in Sestola a broken leg suffered. Her second comeback in winter 2005/2006 was interrupted at the end of January when she suffered a concussion and a torn bone in her upper arm during the European Cup training in Megève . After a six-week break, she took part in competitions again and on March 17, 2006, with third place in the downhill from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, she achieved her first podium in the European Cup. In the next winter she was allowed to take part in a World Cup race in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee for the second time in her career. In this downhill run on January 13, 2007, the then 21-year-old Swiss woman surprised when she finished eighth with starting number 45. As a result, she came to other World Cup appearances and was able to score several times, but was unable to repeat her good result from Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , Sweden , she started in the super combined and finished 26th. On March 3, 2007, Wolf had another bad luck with an injury. In a fall on the World Cup run in Tarvisio , she suffered a concussion and a torn inner ligament in her right knee. Shortly before her planned comeback next winter, she suffered a fractured tibia and fibula during training for the World Cup downhill run in Lake Louise in November 2007 , which was followed by another 15-month break from competition.

Before her next comeback, Wolf trained with the Austrian Karl Frehsner, who lives in Switzerland, from summer 2008 . The collaboration bore fruit and Wolf won two gold medals in the Downhill and Super-G at the Universiade in Harbin, China - where she competed for the first time in almost two years. In the winter of 2009/2010, however, there were no major successes - apart from two victories in FIS races. In the European Cup, she often did not reach the points, or only just barely, and so she lost her place in the Swiss Ski team at the end of the season . She continued to compete in the European Cup and won the downhill run from St. Moritz on December 16, 2010 . Three weeks later, Wolf suffered another serious injury. In a fall during slalom training in Zuoz , she tore the inner ligament and tore the posterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, which is why she had to end a season early again due to an injury.

At the beginning of May 2011 Wolf announced her retirement from top-class sport. In January 2011 she tore the collateral ligament during slalom training in Zuoz. The reasons given were the renewed injury, the missed selection for the Swiss Ski squad for the 2011/2012 season and professional priorities.

successes

World championships

• Åre 2007 : 26th super combination

Junior World Championships

• Briançonnais 2003 : 1st descent, 17th giant slalom, 19th super-G

World cup

• 1 top 10 and another top 20 placement

European Cup

• 2005/2006 season : 10th downhill classification

• 2 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
December 16, 2010	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Departure

More Achievements

• Gold medal in the downhill and super-G at the Universiade 2009
• 5 victories in FIS races
• Young athlete of the year 2003

Web links

• Tamara Wolf's website
• Tamara Wolf in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tamara Wolf in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Frehsner becomes Tamara Wolf's private trainer! www.skionline.ch, August 7, 2008, accessed on December 16, 2010
2. ↑ Selections women alpine skiing 2010/2011 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Swiss-Ski , April 21, 2010 (PDF; 17 kB)