Vesna Fabjan

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Vesna Fabjan Cross-country skiing
Vesna Fabjan (2018)

Vesna Fabjan (2018)

nation SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
birthday 13th March 1985 (age 35)
place of birth Brig ,  Switzerland
size 170 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
society TSK Merkur Kranj
Trainer Jan Žak
Gregor Mali
Peter Torkar
Aleš Gros
Vladimir Korolkevič
National squad since 2000
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Universiade medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2014 Sochi sprint
Logo of the FISU Winter Universiade
gold 2005 Innsbruck and Seefeld sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 13, 2005
 World Cup victories in individual 02 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 21st ( 2009/10 )
 Sprint World Cup 07th ( 2009/10 )
 Distance World Cup 68th ( 2011/12 )
 Tour de Ski 33rd ( 2008/09 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 2 0 3
 Team sprint 0 1 0
last change: September 6, 2019

Vesna Fabjan (born March 13, 1985 ) is a Slovenian cross-country skier .

Career

Fabjan, who lives in Spodnja Besnica , started cross-country skiing at the age of eight and competes for TSK Merkur Kranj , made her international debut in December 2000 as part of the Cross-Country Continental Cup . At the Junior World Championships in Karpacz in 2001 , she reached the 38th place in the individual over 5 km in classic style, before she finished the sprint race on a good 17th place. After a few mixed Continental Cup starts, she achieved 15th place in the sprint at the 2002 Junior World Championship in Schonach in the Black Forest , while she was only 52nd in the freestyle race over five kilometers. At the Junior World Championships in 2003 in Sollefteå , she reached 22nd place in both races (sprint and five kilometers in classic style). At the 2004 Junior World Championships in Stryn , she achieved a top 10 result for the first time. So Fabjan finished the sprint race in fifth place. In the freestyle race over five kilometers, however, she finished 30th.

At the Winter Universiade 2005 in Innsbruck and Seefeld , Fabjan won the gold medal in the sprint. Over five kilometers in the free technique, she reached 33rd place. On February 13, 2005, Fabjan made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup in Reit im Winkl . As 42nd in the sprint, however, she clearly missed the World Cup points. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf , she reached 34th place in the sprint. In the following World Youth Championship 2005 in Finland Rovaniemi was in the sprint and eighth in the individual over 5 km in free style at the end of Eleventh.

For the 2005/06 season Fabjan moved permanently to the senior national team and got a permanent place in the cross-country skiing world cup. Already at the first station in Düsseldorf she managed to win points for the first time as 22nd in the team sprint. In Vernon , Fabjan managed to win World Cup points for the first time in an individual World Cup in 29th place. After finishing the sprint race as 42nd at the U23 cross-country skiing world championships in Kranj in January 2006, she traveled to the Winter Olympics in Turin in February , where Fabjan competed in two races. She finished 40th in the sprint and 14th in the team sprint.

At the start of the following 2006/07 season , Fabjan managed to place in the top ten for the first time in the team sprint alongside Petra Majdič in sixth place. The Tour de Ski 2006/2007 she completed after weak individual results on rank 60. In the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo reached Fabjan in the team sprint ninth after they ran in the sprint only on the 37th place. In the individual over 10 km she also fell short of expectations as 57th.

In October 2007 she just missed her first podium finish at the World Cup in Düsseldorf, finishing fourth in the team sprint. After a few trips to the Alpine Cup or to FIS races , Fabjan finished the Tour de Ski 2007/2008 in 40th place in January 2008 . Her international breakthrough finally came in the 2009/10 season . In Davos she finished the sprint race in tenth place for the first time in the top 10. After ranking 33 in the Tour de Ski 2008/2009 , she also achieved a top 10 position with seventh place in Rybinsk . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec , however, she could not build on her achievements. After ranking 53 in the individual over 10 km, Fabjan also missed a top position in the sprint as 16.

At the end of the season in Lahti , Fabjan barely missed her first individual World Cup podium as fourth in the sprint. She finally managed to jump to third place at the beginning of the 2009/10 season at the sprint in Düsseldorf . In Davos she also showed a top performance as fourth. In January 2010 Fabjan achieved the first World Cup victory in her career in a sprint in Rybinsk. In the team sprint, she and her partner also convinced as second.

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , Fabjan reached rank 33 in the individual only rank 23 in the sprint. Even with the relay, she did not get above rank 14. A little later she finished her best World Cup season to date in seventh place in the Sprint World Cup overall ranking and 21st place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the 2010/11 season Fabjan started again by finishing third in the sprint in Dusseldorf. She also won the Rybinsk sprint race again in January. At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , she narrowly missed a first medal in the sprint as fourth. In the individual, the Slovenian only finished 41st before she again achieved a good seventh place in the relay in the 4 × 5 km race.

In the 2011/12 season Fabjan weak start. It was only in Rogla that she achieved a good top 10 placement again in seventh place. Also in Szklarska Poręba in February, she managed to finish eighth in the top ten.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , Fabjan finished sixth in the team sprint, 29th in the sprint, 52nd in free technique over ten kilometers and finished 14th in the relay. At the following World Cup in Lahti , she won the qualification, but only finished in 21st place in the race. After finishing second on the podium at the FIS race in Beitostølen in November 2013 , she also achieved a good individual result at the start of the season in Davos in fifth. In Szklarska Poreba, Fabjan managed to finish third in a sprint world cup.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won the bronze medal in the free style sprint after finishing fourth in qualification. She finished ninth in the Slovenian cross-country relay. In February 2017 she achieved 59th place over 10 km classic and 26th place in sprint at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she finished eighth with the relay.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. January 22, 2010 RussiaRussia Rybinsk Sprint freestyle
2. February 5, 2011 RussiaRussia Rybinsk Sprint freestyle

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. January 8, 2016 SloveniaSlovenia Planica Sprint freestyle Alpine Cup
2. March 7, 2020 SloveniaSlovenia Pokljuka Sprint freestyle Balkan Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 2005 Oberstdorf : 34th place sprint classic
  • 2007 Sapporo : 9th place team sprint freestyle, 37th place sprint classic, 57th place 10 km freestyle
  • 2009 Liberec : 16th place sprint freestyle, 53rd place 10 km classic
  • 2011 Oslo : 4th place sprint freestyle, 7th place relay, 41st place 10 km classic
  • 2013 Val di Fiemme : 6th place team sprint freestyle, 14th place relay, 29th place sprint classic, 52nd place 10 km freestyle
  • 2017 Lahti : 26th place sprint freestyle, 59th place 10 km classic

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place 2 2
2nd place   1
3rd place 3 3
Top 10 30th 30th 8th 3
Scoring 4th 1 2 91 98 17th 9
Starts 19th 27 3 1 28 131 13 222 17th 10
Status: end of season 2019/20
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2005/06 8th 103. - - 8th 68.
2006/07 57 56. - - 57 32.
2007/08 112 37. - - 112 23.
2008/09 198 34. 3 91. 195 12.
2009/10 321 21st 2 97. 319 7th
2010/11 266 29 2 89. 264 9.
2011/12 261 31. 9 68. 252 10.
2012/13 66 60. - - 66 31.
2013/14 193 34. - - 193 11.
2014/15 56 67. - - 56 37.
2015/16 150 35. 2 79. 148 17th
2016/17 106 49. - - 106 22nd
2017/18 72 58. - - 72 28.
2018/19 39 75. - - 39 38.
2019/20 10 97. - - 10 66.

Web links

Commons : Vesna Fabjan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2004 - Ladies' SP 1 km F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Winter Universiade 2005 - Ladies' SP 1.5 km F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
  3. ↑ World Ski Championships 2005 - Ladies' SP 0.9 km C Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
  4. ↑ World Ski Championships 2011 - Ladies' SP F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
  5. ↑ World Ski Championships 2011 - Ladies' 10 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
  6. ↑ World Ski Championships 2011 - Ladies' Rel 4x5 km M in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fabjan, Vesna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Brig , Switzerland