Tessa Worley

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Tessa Worley Alpine skiing
Tessa Worley, Semmering 2008
Tessa Worley in December 2008
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 4th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth Annemasse , France
size 157 cm
Weight 57 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Le Grand Bornand
status active
Medal table
World championships 4 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 team
bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 Giant slalom
gold Schladming 2013 Giant slalom
gold St. Moritz 2017 Giant slalom
gold St. Moritz 2017 team
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Formigal 2008 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 4, 2006
 Individual world cup victories 13
 Overall World Cup 11. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 )
 Downhill World Cup 35th ( 2015/16 )
 Super G World Cup 9. ( 2016/17 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (2016/17)
 Slalom World Cup 27. (2011/12)
 Combination World Cup 11. (2015/16)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 13 8th 8th
 team 0 1 0
last change: March 16, 2020
Tessa Worley at the award ceremony for the Giant Slalom in Semmering on December 28, 2010

Tessa Worley (born October 4, 1989 in Annemasse ) is a French ski racer . In the course of her career she started in all disciplines, where she achieved her success in giant slalom . In this discipline she won the world championship title in 2013 and 2017 and the world championship bronze medal in 2011. There are also two world championship titles in the team competition in 2011 and 2017. In the World Cup , she has won 13 races so far.

biography

Worley is the daughter of a French mother and an Australian father. She learned to ski when she was two years old. She spent the first years of her life alternately in France and New Zealand (in the respective winter). When she was seven years old, she joined the ski club in her home town of Le Grand-Bornand . Her sporting career began in November 2004 with participation in FIS races , from January 2005 also in the European Cup . In 2005 she took part in the European Youth Olympic Festival in Monthey , where a fifth place in the giant slalom was her best result. After winning an FIS race for the first time in January 2006, she contested her first World Cup race on February 4, 2006 in Ofterschwang and finished in 29th place in the giant slalom .

Worley celebrated first successes in March 2007 at the Junior World Championships in Flachau when she was ninth in the giant slalom. At the French championships in Val-d'Isère in the same month she was third in the giant slalom and fifth in the Super-G. At the start of the 2007/08 season, Worley surprised at her fourth World Cup appearance with a fifth place on October 27, 2007 in the giant slalom in Sölden , which she achieved with starting number 46. She confirmed this result with several other top 20 results. At the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Formigal, she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom. She also won her first French championship title at the end of the season.

First world cup victories

On November 29, 2008 Worley surprisingly (it was only her twelfth appearance in the World Cup) won her first World Cup race, the giant slalom in Aspen . This was the first World Cup victory by a French woman since Ingrid Jacquemod in 2005 and the first giant slalom World Cup victory since Régine Cavagnoud in 1999. During the 2008/09 World Cup season , Worley struggled to build on this success and only achieved one more top 10 Placement. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , she was seventh in the giant slalom as the best French woman. Worley celebrated its second World Cup victory on December 12, 2009 in the giant slalom in Åre . However, as in the previous year, she was unable to achieve consistently good results. This victory was also her only top 10 result in the 2009/10 season . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , she did not get past 16th place in the giant slalom.

First world championship medals

Worley was able to establish itself at the top of the world in the 2010/11 season . On November 27, 2010, she won her third World Cup race, the giant slalom in Aspen. Victories four and five followed in December 2010 at the giant slaloms in St. Moritz and Semmering . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she won the gold medal in the team competition as well as the giant slalom bronze medal (in the World Cup giant slalom she was still on the 19th intermediate place after the first round, before she pushed forward with a clear best time in the second round). At the end of the season, in which she also increasingly competed in slaloms and super-Gs, she finished second in the giant slalom ranking behind the German Viktoria Rebensburg, who was exactly the same age to the day .

Worley was also one of the most successful giant slalom runners in the 2011/12 season . She won two more races in Kranjska Gora and Soldeu . But since she also had two failures, this only resulted in third place in the discipline ranking. In December 2012 she achieved her first top 10 placement in a Super-G in St. Moritz, and her best downhill result to date was achieved on March 14, 2012 with 12th place at the World Cup final in Schladming .

Giant Slalom World Championship 2013

Although Worley finished in giant slalom once in second place and three times in third place in the 2012/13 season , she was not one of the favorites before the 2013 World Cup in Schladming. There she won the giant slalom world championship title with the best time in both rounds, with a lead of over a second on Tina Maze and Anna Fenninger .

On December 15, 2013, Worley celebrated its eighth victory in a World Cup giant slalom in St. Moritz. Two days later, she had a serious fall in the Courchevel slalom, tearing a cruciate ligament and injuring the meniscus in her right knee. So she was canceled for the remainder of the 2013/14 season . As a result, she also missed the 2014 Winter Olympics . On October 25, 2014 Worley returned to racing and came seventh in the giant slalom in Sölden; in the further course of the 2014/15 season she managed another top 10 result. In the 2015/16 season she made it into the top ten four times: in the first three giant slaloms of the season with places 5, 5 and 4, and on February 21, 2016 as eighth in the Super-G in La Thuile .

Again World Cup gold and victory in the discipline World Cup

Worley finally found its way back to its former strength in the 2016/17 season . On November 26, 2016, she celebrated her first victory after her comeback in the giant slalom in Killington . Two weeks later she won the Sestriere giant slalom . Another victory followed in Maribor at the beginning of January 2017 . With two fifth places, she also began to establish herself at the top of the world in the Super-G. At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz, she won the gold medal in the team competition and the gold medal in the giant slalom for the second time. With three victories of the season and, above all, three second and two third places in the giant slalom, she traveled 80 points ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin , who also had three victories of the season, to the season finale in Aspen , where it was not difficult for her, definitely in the last race Manage upholstery or, to be more precise, even increase it by five points with rank 5 compared to rank 6 of the competitor.

Private

Worley is in a relationship with the ski racer Julien Lizeroux . Because of their small stature, their nickname is puce ("flea"). She belongs to the ski team of the École militaire de haute montagne (mountain military school) in Chamonix and holds the rank of sergeant of the mountain troops .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination City event
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2005/06 118. 2 - - - - 57. 2 - - - - - -
2007/08 42. 136 - - - - 14th 136 - - - - - -
2008/09 39. 187 - - - - 11. 187 - - - - - -
2009/10 37. 192 - - - - 13. 161 37. 31 - - - -
2010/11 16. 453 - - 43. 13 2. 358 34. 36 27. 16 5. 30th
2011/12 11. 589 39. 22nd 37. 17th 3. 446 27. 71 23. 18th 9. 15th
2012/13 11. 512 - - 22nd 80 4th 383 38. 33 25th 16 - -
2013/14 40. 194 - - 22nd 55 16. 139 - - - - - -
2014/15 49. 132 - - 34. 21st 13. 111 - - - - - -
2015/16 27. 370 35. 19th 21st 101 11. 188 - - 11. 62 - -
2016/17 6th 870 - - 9. 167 1. 685 - - - - - -
2017/18 13. 607 - - 18th 117 2. 490 - - - - - -
2018/19 14th 460 - - - - 3. 460 - - - - - -
2019/20 29 231 - - 30th 41 8th. 190 - - - - - -

* The City Event points were counted for the Slalom World Cup in the 2012/13 season.

World Cup victories

  • 29 podium places in individual races, including 13 victories:
date place country discipline
November 29, 2008 Aspen United States Giant slalom
December 12, 2009 Are Sweden Giant slalom
November 27, 2010 Aspen United States Giant slalom
December 12, 2010 St. Moritz Switzerland Giant slalom
December 28, 2010 Semmering Austria Giant slalom
January 21, 2012 Kranjska Gora Slovenia Giant slalom
February 12, 2012 Soldeu Andorra Giant slalom
December 15, 2013 St. Moritz Switzerland Giant slalom
November 26, 2016 Killington United States Giant slalom
December 10, 2016 Sestriere Italy Giant slalom
January 7, 2017 Maribor Slovenia Giant slalom
January 27, 2018 Lenzerheide Switzerland Giant slalom
October 27, 2018 Soelden Austria Giant slalom

European Cup

  • Season 2019/20 : 6th Super-G classification
  • 4 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
December 11, 2019 St. Moritz Switzerland Super G

Junior World Championships

Winter military world games

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Tessa Worley  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ski: la Française Tessa Worley, neuf ans après Cavagnoud. L'Humanité , November 30, 2008, archived from the original ; Retrieved February 15, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ La remontée fantastique. Le Figaro , February 17, 2011, accessed February 15, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ Mondiaux Schladming: Tessa Worley championne du monde de géant. Eurosport , February 14, 2013, accessed February 15, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Tessa Worley misses the Olympic Games. Swiss Radio and Television , December 17, 2013, accessed on December 17, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Tessa Worley: "I want to experience this feeling again". skionline.ch, September 4, 2014, accessed on December 16, 2014 .
  6. ^ Tessa Worley, "Puce" que parfait. Liberation , February 14, 2013, accessed February 15, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ 5 choses à savoir sur Tessa Worley, double championne du monde de slalom géant. Grazia, February 16, 2017, accessed June 2, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Worley, Tessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Annemasse , France