Tina Weirather

Tina Weirather
Full name	Christina Weirather
nation	Liechtenstein
birthday	24th May 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Vaduz , Liechtenstein
size	162 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	SC Schaan
status	resigned
End of career	March 25, 2020
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Alpine World Ski Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 2 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Pyeongchang 2018 Super G  Alpine World Ski Championships silver St. Moritz 2017 Super G  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Québec 2006 Giant slalom gold Altenmarkt 2007 Departure silver Altenmarkt 2007 Super G silver Altenmarkt 2007 Giant slalom silver Garmisch-Partenk. 2009 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 22, 2005  Individual world cup victories 9  Overall World Cup 4. ( 2015/16 )  Downhill World Cup 2. ( 2011/12 )  Super G World Cup 1. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 5. (2015/16)  Slalom World Cup 43rd (2015/16)  Combination World Cup 16. ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 1 7th 6th  Super G 7th 9 5  Giant slalom 1 1 4th

Christina "Tina" Weirather (born May 24, 1989 in Vaduz ) is a former Liechtenstein ski racer . The daughter of the ski racers Harti Weirather and Hanni Wenzel also has Austrian citizenship . As a member of the national team of the Liechtenstein Ski Association (LSV), she mainly trained with the Swiss national team. In total, she won nine races in the Alpine Ski World Cup , with the Super-G being by far her strongest discipline. In this, she decided the discipline evaluation in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. There is also a silver medal at the 2017 World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics . In the downhill and in the giant slalom , she won a world cup race.

biography

Junior period

In 2002 and 2004 Weirather won the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino , and in 2002 the giant slalom of the Whistler Cup . In November 2004, at the age of 15, she first took part in FIS races . In January 2005 the first use in the European Cup followed . Also in 2005 she took part in the World Ski Championships in Bormio and reached 31st place in the Super-G . In 2006 she was part of the five-person Liechtenstein team at the Winter Olympics in Turin and came 33rd in the Super-G. On March 7, 2006 she was Junior World Champion in giant slalom in Mont Sainte-Anne .

She competed in her first World Cup race on October 22, 2005 in the giant slalom in Sölden , where she achieved 55th place. She only returned to the World Cup on November 25, 2006. After she did not make it into the final ranking in the slalom the next day, she took her first points in the World Cup on December 15, 2006 in the Super Combined on the Reiteralm as 22nd ; after the super-G part, it was still in second place. She was able to confirm this performance on January 14, 2007 with the 8th place in the super combined in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee . On March 7, 2007, she secured the junior world title in downhill at the same location. During training for the World Cup downhill run in Lenzerheide , she had a bad fall on March 13, 2007 and tore both cruciate ligaments and the inner ligament in her left knee.

First comeback in the World Cup after injury

She celebrated her comeback in the World Cup on December 28, 2007 at the giant slalom in Lienz , where she was canceled in the first run. Overall, she contested five World Cup races in the 2007/08 season , but was only able to achieve a result in 19th place in the giant slalom in Spindleruv Mlyn. On March 10, 2008, Weirather fell severely during giant slalom training in Pitztal and tore his cruciate ligament again in his right knee. Since almost the entire summer training session was canceled, it was mainly used in the European Cup and FIS races the following winter. Only in March did she contest a World Cup giant slalom in Ofterschwang , in which she was unable to qualify for the second run. At the Junior World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2009 , she won the silver medal in the giant slalom.

In the 2009/10 season Weirather competed regularly in the World Cup. On January 22nd, 2010 she achieved her best ever World Cup result in the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo with seventh place. A day later she had a serious fall on the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo and suffered her fourth cruciate ligament tear . She had to take a year-long break from competition and missed the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . In March 2011 she made her comeback with a victory in the FIS giant slalom on Götschen .

Second World Cup comeback after another injury

Weirather returned to the World Cup at the beginning of the 2011/12 season with a twelfth place in the giant slalom in Sölden. On December 2, 2011, she finished second in the Lake Louise Downhill with starting number 40, achieving her first World Cup podium finish. With two further podium places and a total of six top 5 results in this discipline, she finished second in the Downhill World Cup behind Lindsey Vonn . In addition, she finished seventh in the Super G World Cup with two podium places. The 2012/13 season started equally well for Weirather, finishing third in the Lake Louise Downhill. But on December 2, 2012, she fell in the same place in the Super-G and suffered a severe bruise in the shoe. She had to take a two-week break and as the season progressed she was nowhere near the level of the previous winter. Somewhat surprising under these circumstances was her first World Cup victory , which she achieved on March 1, 2013 in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . She is the first daughter of a former World Cup winner who was also able to celebrate a World Cup victory.

In the 2013/14 season , Weirather also advanced to the top of the world in the giant slalom discipline. On December 1, 2013, she achieved her first podium finish in a World Cup giant slalom (third in Beaver Creek ), and on December 14, she won her first victory of the current season at the Super-G in St. Moritz . Weirather won a giant slalom for the first time in Val-d'Isère on December 22nd and led the overall World Cup ranking for a week. With consistently good performances (a total of nine podium places) she established herself as one of the most popular favorites for medal wins ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics . At the Olympic opening ceremony in Sochi , she led the Liechtenstein delegation as the flag bearer. In the third downhill training, however, she suffered a bruised bone on her right tibia and was unable to contest any of the Olympic races due to the pain. After further medical examinations in late February, she had to end the season early. Nevertheless, she was fifth overall and third in the Super G World Cup.

In the 2014/15 World Cup season , Weirather could not quite maintain the high level of the pre-winter season , but on March 7, 2015 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she won a downhill run for the only time in her career. In this discipline, this was the first victory for a Liechtenstein woman in more than 30 years; her mother Hanni Wenzel last won on January 13, 1984 in Bad Gastein . At the end of the season, Weirather finished tenth in the overall World Cup. At the 2015 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , she narrowly missed a medal as fourth in the giant slalom.

Medals and victories in the Super G discipline classification

In the 2015/16 World Cup season , Weirather made it onto the podium seven times; She won on February 21, 2016 in La Thuile and on March 17, 2016 at the World Cup final in St. Moritz (each in a Super-G). On February 7, 2017, at the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz , she managed to win the silver medal behind Nicole Schmidhofer , with whom she had already dueled for the medal ranks at the Junior World Championships ten years earlier. This success was remarkable as she had broken the metacarpal bone four days earlier . On March 16, 2017, she prevailed at the World Cup final in Aspen by winning the Super-G over Ilka Štuhec in the Super-G discipline by five points. After the season she made a material change from Atomic to Head .

After a disappointing start to the 2017/18 World Cup season with the elimination of the giant slalom in Sölden, Weirather was able to convince with a second place in the downhill and victory in the Super-G at the first speed race in Lake Louise. In the subsequent World Cup races in Europe, she was able to confirm her strong form in the fast disciplines with consistently good successes. Among other things, she achieved second place in the Super-G of Val d'Isere despite an impression fracture in her hand and a corresponding handicap . Another second place followed in the downhill from Cortina, plus a third place in the Super-G from Garmisch. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the bronze medal in the Super-G. She also won the Super-G in Crans-Montana and won the discipline classification as in the previous winter.

In the 2018/19 World Cup season, Weirather achieved three podium places in the Super-G, while she gradually lost contact with the top in the giant slalom. The 2019 World Cup in Åre ended disappointingly for her, and 18th place in the downhill was her best result. At the beginning of the 2019/20 World Cup season , she stated that she no longer competes in giant slaloms and that she is concentrating on the fast disciplines. But even here the successes increasingly failed and she was three times in the top ten. On March 25, 2020, Weirather announced her retirement from top-class sport after a 15-year career and 222 World Cup races.

Others

On January 25, 2019, Tina Weirather was appointed UNICEF ambassador for Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

successes

Weirather in Courchevel, 2015

Tina Weirather in January 2017

Olympic games

• Turin 2006 : 33rd Super-G
• Pyeongchang 2018 : 3rd Super-G, 4th Downhill, 22nd giant slalom

World championships

• Santa Caterina 2005 : 31st Super-G
• Schladming 2013 : 13th run, 27th giant slalom
• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 4th giant slalom, 6th Super-G, 11th descent
• St. Moritz 2017 : 2nd Super-G, 10th descent, 19th giant slalom
• Åre 2019 : 18th departure

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2006/07	56.	119	43.	14th	51.	4th	23.	59	-	-	16.	42
2007/08	109.	12	-	-	-	-	39.	12	-	-	-	-
2009/10	58.	115	38.	32	25th	60	41.	12	-	-	32.	11
2011/12	9.	674	2.	400	7th	213	30th	56	-	-	33.	5
2012/13	18th	395	6th	224	9.	147	37.	24	-	-	-	-
2013/14	5.	943	4th	400	3.	310	10.	219	-	-	17th	14th
2014/15	10.	603	7th	269	8th.	194	10.	139	-	-	-	-
2015/16	4th	1016	8th.	244	2.	436	5.	321	43.	15th	-	-
2016/17	7th	857	5.	256	1.	435	13.	166	-	-	-	-
2017/18	6th	887	3.	394	1.	461	31.	32	-	-	-	-
2018/19	17th	411	15th	139	3.	268	56.	4th	-	-	-	-
2019/20	34.	209	23.	112	16.	97	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

41 podium places, of which 9 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
1st of March 2013	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Super G
December 14, 2013	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Super G
December 22, 2013	Val d'Isère	France	Giant slalom
March 7, 2015	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Departure
February 21, 2016	La Thuile	Italy	Super G
17th March 2016	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Super G
March 16, 2017	Aspen	United States	Super G
3rd December 2017	Lake Louise	Canada	Super G
March 3, 2018	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	Super G

European Cup

• 2005/06 season : 7th super-G classification, 8th downhill classification
• 2006/07 season : 5th Super-G classification
• 4 podium places, including 2 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
January 17, 2006	House in the Ennstal	Austria	Departure
March 18, 2006	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee	Austria	Super G

Junior World Championships

• Bardonecchia 2005 : 17th Super-G, 29th downhill, 41st giant slalom
• Québec 2006 : 1st giant slalom, 5th downhill
• Altenmarkt / Flachau 2007 : 1st descent, 2nd giant slalom, 2nd super-G
• Formigal 2008 : 7th giant slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 2nd giant slalom

More Achievements

• 1 Liechtenstein championship title (giant slalom 2006)
• 2 Swiss championship titles (giant slalom 2006 and 2011)
• 6 victories in FIS races (4 × giant slalom, 2 × Super-G)
• eight-time Liechtenstein sportswoman of the year : 2006, 2012–2018

Web links

Commons : Tina Weirather  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Tina Weirather in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tina Weirather in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Tina Weirather in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} High-flyer with four cruciate ligament tears. Tages-Anzeiger , December 16, 2013, accessed March 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Tina Weirather falls out with a bruised boot. skionline.ch, December 5, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2013 . 
3. ^ Tina Weirather / Hanni Wenzel - first mother / daughter double in the World Cup. skionline.ch, March 1, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2013 . 
4. ^ Weirath flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Liechtenstein Fatherland , January 28, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Olympia for Tina Weirather over. skionline.ch, February 15, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014 . 
6. ^ End of the season for Tina Weirather. skionline.ch, February 25, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Weirather with a broken hand on WM silver. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , February 7, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Changing skis is obviously just a matter of form. Liechtenstein Fatherland , April 6, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
9. ↑ This is another story: Weirather comes second with a damaged hand. Swiss Radio and Television , December 17, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
10. ↑ For Weirather, mediocrity is no longer an option. Swiss Radio and Television , October 21, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Tina Weirather ends her career. Swiss radio and television , March 25, 2020, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Tina Weirather becomes ambassador for UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein. UNICEF Switzerland, January 25, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019 .