Ursula fingerless
Ursula fingerless 
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| Full name | Ursula Fingerlos Smith | ||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | 17th November 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Sankt Michael im Lungau , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 169 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| society | USC Mauterndorf | ||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ursula Fingerlos Smith (born November 17, 1976 in Sankt Michael im Lungau ) is a former Austrian snowboarder .
Career
Fingerless began skiing in the mountains in her childhood. As a teenager, she first came to snowboarding. She began to train under Roland Gell at USC Mauterndorf. After graduating from high school in 1995, she decided against studying straight away and concentrated exclusively on sport. Already for the 1995/96 season she was accepted into the Austrian national team and made her debut in the Snowboard World Cup on November 21, 1995 . As eleventh in the giant slalom, she immediately proved her talent. In January 1996 she was among the top ten for the first time in La Bresse . On February 4th, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in Bad Hindelang, Germany . By the end of the season she had three more wins at Sun Peaks and Mt. Bachelor. In the discipline ranking for the giant slalom, she reached third place. At the Snowboard World Championships in Lienz in 1996 , she just missed a medal as fourth in this discipline.
After Fingerlos only reached the podium once in the following winter of 1996/97, she was able to take three podium places in snowboard cross in the 1997/98 Olympic winter and ultimately secured this discipline ranking in the World Cup for the first time. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she started in the giant slalom, which was exclusively held, and missed the medal ranks as fifth. In the winter of 1998/99, Fingerlos won the snowboard cross world cups in Grächen and Olang and defended their victory in the discipline ranking . As in the previous year, Fingerlos finished third in the overall World Cup for the 1998/99 season . At the Snowboard World Championships 1999 in Berchtesgaden , her discipline snowboard cross was not in the program. But she started in the other disciplines and was sixth in the giant slalom, tenth in the parallel giant slalom and eleventh in the parallel slalom.
In the 1999/2000 season, Fingerlos achieved four more World Cup victories. But since there were no other top placings, she only stayed in seventh place in the overall World Cup. In January 2001, Fingerlos broke his leg and had to take a long break. Also for the snowboard world championships 2001 she got no starting place. At the end of winter 2000/01, however, she was used again in the World Cup in Ruka, Finland, and came sixth in snowboard cross. From the winter of 2001/02 Fingerlos started in the European Cup. In addition, she continued to specialize in snowboard cross in the World Cup and thus also missed the qualification for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . A year later, snowboard cross was held for the first time at the 2003 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . Fingerless won the silver medal behind the French Karine Ruby . After she celebrated further victories in the World Cup, she finished the season again in third place in the overall World Cup.
In the spring of 2004, Fingerlos fell so badly during a training run that she had to take a long break again. In December 2004 she made a comeback attempt in the NorAm Cup. However, after her health was unable to build on her old successes, she ended her active career in December 2004. On July 17, 2004, she married the American snowboarder Dan Smith and moved with him to the vicinity of Denver , Colorado . There she started working for an ophthalmologist.
In 1998, Fingerlos received the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .
successes
Snowboard world championships
- 1996 Lienz : 4th giant slalom, 16th parallel slalom
- 1997 San Candido : 7th giant slalom, 34th giant slalom
- 1999 Berchtesgaden : 6th giant slalom, 10th parallel giant slalom, 11th parallel slalom
- 2003 Kreischberg : Silver in snowboard cross
National championships
- 1996: Gold giant slalom
- 1998: Silver giant slalom
- 1999: Gold Slalom, Silver Giant Slalom
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (publisher): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 78–79
Web links
- Ursula Fingerlos in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Ursula Fingerlos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Ursula Fingerless on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Ursula Fingerlos in the Salzburgwiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Fingerlos Smith. In: skischoolpros.com. Retrieved May 17, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Editor: Silver for Fingerless. In: derstandard.at . January 20, 2003, accessed May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fingerless, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fingerless Smith, Ursula (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Michael im Lungau , Austria |