Wendy Holdener

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Wendy Holdener Alpine skiing
Third place, Wendy Holdener.jpg
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 12th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Unteriberg , Switzerland
size 167 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , combination ,
super-G , downhill
society SC Drusberg
National squad since Swiss-Ski
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
WM 3 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Pyeongchang 2018 team
silver Pyeongchang 2018 slalom
bronze Pyeongchang 2018 Alpine combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 2017 Alpine combination
silver St. Moritz 2017 slalom
gold Åre 2019 Alpine combination
gold Åre 2019 team
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Crans-Montana 2011 combination
silver Crans-Montana 2011 Departure
bronze Crans-Montana 2011 Giant slalom
silver Québec 2013 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut October 23, 2010
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 2017/18 )
 Downhill World Cup 38th ( 2019/20 )
 Super G World Cup 15th (2019/20)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 6. (2019/20)
 Slalom World Cup 2. (2017/18)
 Combination World Cup 1. ( 2015/16 , 2017/18)
 Parallel world cup 13. (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 0 0 2
 Giant slalom 0 0 2
 slalom 0 13 11
 combination 2 2 1
 Parallel races 1 2 2
 team 4th 1 1
last change: March 16, 2020

Wendy Holdener (born May 12, 1993 in Unteriberg ) is a Swiss ski racer . She has been a member of the Swiss-Ski national team since 2013 and is particularly successful in slalom and combination . In the latter discipline she won in the seasons 2015/16 and 2017/18 the discipline standings in 2017 and in 2019 she became world champion. In 2018 she won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games.

biography

Junior period

Wendy Holdener comes from Unteriberg in the canton of Schwyz , where she still lives today. She was trained as a hotel clerk at the Engelberg sports school . She competed in her first FIS races in November 2008 at the age of 15. In the winter of 2009/10, she was regularly among the top ten at this level and achieved her first victory in February 2010. At the Junior World Championships 2010 she finished fifth in the downhill. At the Swiss Championships in 2010 , she also narrowly missed a medal as fourth in the downhill.

At the end of this winter, Holdener was the best in the 1993 FIS world rankings in the downhill, super-G and slalom disciplines; in the giant slalom she took second place. Because of this, she was given the opportunity to attend the summer training camp in New Zealand with the national team . Although she had only contested four races in the European Cup , she made her debut in the World Cup on October 23, 2010 in Sölden . She finished 55th in the giant slalom. A little more than a month later, on November 28, 2010, she won her first World Cup points as 18th in the slalom in Aspen . She equalized this result on December 21, 2010 in Courchevel in the same discipline. At the Junior World Championships 2011 in Crans-Montana , Holdener won the gold medal in the combination, silver in the downhill and bronze in the giant slalom. These successes also secured her nomination for the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where she finished 29th in giant slalom, but was eliminated in slalom.

Establishment in the World Cup

During the 2011/12 season , Holdener achieved five top 20 results in the World Cup and the Swiss championship title in the super combined. In April 2012 she was named the best young athlete of 2011 by Swiss Sports Aid . In 2012 she got her first giant slalom world cup points with a 17th place at the season opener in Sölden .

During the 2012/13 season , Holdener was able to continuously improve, especially in slalom, and advanced to the top of the world with several top 10 placings. At the Junior World Championships 2013 , she won the silver medal in the team competition. She achieved her first World Cup podium on March 10, 2013 when she came second in the Ofterschwang slalom .

After she was eliminated in both slalom and giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics, she and the Swiss team won the team competition in front of the USA and Austria at the season finale in Lenzerheide on March 14, 2014, which is only part of the Nations Cup . On December 29, 2014, Holdener finished third in the Kühtai slalom . The 2015 World Championships in the USA did not go so well for her, where she came 17th in giant slalom and in her special discipline, slalom, after rank 8 in the first run (1.02 seconds behind the leading Shiffrin and 0.58 seconds behind Podium removed) was eliminated in the second round. However, she was able to repeat the previous year's success in the Swiss team on March 20: In Méribel she won ahead of Sweden and Austria.

Rise to the top of the world

After another podium finish in Lienz on December 29, 2015, Holdener was able to improve significantly again towards the end of the 2015/16 season. On February 23, 2016, she celebrated her first World Cup victory at the City Event in Stockholm . This was followed by a second place in the combination of Soldeu on February 28th and in the Jasná slalom on March 6th. A week later, on March 13th, she achieved the second World Cup victory in the combination of Lenzerheide . With this she also secured the win of the combined discipline ranking. Ultimately, she managed to repeat last year's victory in the team competition in the Swiss team, this time on March 18, 2016 in St. Moritz, ahead of Germany and Sweden .

In the 2016/2017 season, Wendy Holdener finished on the podium six times. Holdener reached second place twice and third place four times. The first slalom victory she was denied. In the slalom of Squaw Valley (March 11, 2017), the Schwyzerin led 2 hundredths of a second ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin after the first run . In the second run Holdener was eliminated three goals from the finish and thus missed her first win. Never before has anyone stood on the slalom podium so often without winning a race.

World and Olympic champion

Thanks to a good time in her less strong discipline, the downhill, and a strong performance in slalom, she won the gold medal in the Alpine Combined at the home world championship in St. Moritz on February 10, 2017 (with five hundredths of a second ahead of her teammate Michelle Gisin ) This was the first gold medal for the Swiss women's alpine team since Sonja Nef's giant slalom gold in 2001. In the slalom she was only beaten by Mikaela Shiffrin and won the silver medal.

Their strong performances continued in the 2017/18 season. Holdener achieved a podium finish in slalom five times. At the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Holdener led the slalom after the first run and in the end won the silver medal behind Frida Hansdotter . In the Alpine Combined, she secured the bronze medal behind Michelle Gisin and Mikaela Shiffrin . In the team competition held for the first time on February 24, she won the gold medal in the Swiss team (with Denise Feierabend , Luca Aerni , Daniel Yule and Ramon Zenhäusern ). A week later, on March 3rd, she finished third in the Super-G in Crans-Montana and thus achieved a podium finish in a speed race for the first time.

In the season 2018/19 started Holdener with solid results, to be able to record a podium finish in the first race without however. This happened for the first time in St. Moritz , where she finished third in the parallel slalom. With the slalom in Semmering, the city event in Oslo and the slalom in Zagreb, Holdener was able to achieve three third places within one week (December 29th, January 1st and January 2nd). In addition to some top 10 places, Holdener narrowly missed her first giant slalom podium in Maribor (02/02). The next day she set a new record because she was now on the podium in 20 special slaloms (nine second, eleven third places) without ever having won. She replaced Hubert Strolz, who between 1984 and 1993 made it onto the podium 19 times in giant slalom without winning. After she achieved eleventh place in the Super G in St. Moritz in December, she was able to confirm the result in Cortina d'Ampezzo when she finished the race in sixth and thus fulfilled the Swiss-Ski World Cup qualification standard . She received over Joana Hählen preference and started as fourth Swiss Super G in Åre . She was classified in 14th place. Three days later, on February 8th, Holdener successfully defended her world title in combination. After a third place in the downhill, Holdener sat just ahead of her first rival Petra Vlhová (+0.03 s), who was able to improve significantly after modest downhill training (ranks 40, 27 and 20). Holdener entered the race as the top favorite, especially since she was the defending champion and Mikaela Shiffrin did not start after winning the Super G. On February 12th Holdener and her teammates Aline Danioth , Daniel Yule and Ramon Zenhäusern won the team title. She and Zenhäusern won all of their duels and, after winning the Olympic Games in 2018, led Switzerland to a team world title for the first time. In the giant slalom, Holdener reached 15th place. At the end, she started as one of the favorites for the title in the special slalom. In the first run she was able to take the lead and was the last to tackle the second run. She took too great a risk and made a mistake shortly after the start, which resulted in 17th place. After the many podium places without a win, only winning the title was in the foreground, which is why Holdener took full risk.

She finished the 2018/19 World Cup season third in the overall ranking. In the 2019/20 season she achieved second places in the slalom in Levi and Kranjska Gora as well as third places in the giant slaloms in Courchevel and Kranjska Gora. In the speed disciplines she continued to improve and came third in the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the Alpine Combined, she finished second in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee .

Private

Holdener was in a relationship with former ski racer Nico Caprez from 2010 to 2019. In December 2019, the couple announced the split.

successes

Olympic games

  • Pyeongchang 2018 : 1st team competition, 2nd slalom, 3rd Alpine combination, 9th giant slalom

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2010/11 89. 43 49. 1 - - - - 38. 26th 27. 16 - -
2011/12 67. 84 - - - - - - 31. 60 19th 24 - -
2012/13 20th 359 - - - - 42. 14th 6th 334 33. 11 - -
2013/14 29 234 - - - - 35. 26th 10. 186 12. 22nd - -
2014/15 22nd 312 - - 52. 4th 46. 6th 8th. 266 7th 36 - -
2015/16 6th 817 - - 45. 7th 30th 51 3. 561 1. 198 - -
2016/17 8th. 692 - - 53. 4th 22nd 93 3. 455 3. 140 - -
2017/18 2. 1168 39. 18th 22nd 92 8th. 203 2. 705 1. 150 - -
2018/19 3. 1079 40. 4th 22nd 80 7th 254 3. 681 3. 60 - -
2019/20 6th 791 38. 24 15th 111 6th 234 4th 260 2. 125 13. 37

World Cup victories

  • 38 podium places in individual races, including 3 wins:
No. date place country discipline
1. February 23, 2016 Stockholm Sweden City event
2. March 13, 2016 Lenzerheide Switzerland Super combination
3. January 26, 2018 Lenzerheide Switzerland Super combination

European Cup

  • Season 2019/20 : 10th Super-G rating
  • 7 podium places, including 2 wins:
No. date place country discipline
1. January 10, 2013 Melchsee-Frutt Switzerland slalom
2. January 22, 2015 Zell am See Austria Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Mont Blanc 2010 : 5th downhill, 15th combination, 31st Super-G, 36th slalom, 41st giant slalom
  • Crans-Montana 2011 : 1st combination, 2nd descent, 3rd giant slalom, 4th slalom
  • Québec 2013 : 2nd team, 7th slalom, 14th giant slalom

More Achievements

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Wendy Holdener  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Wendy Holdener. In: gmx.ch, accessed on February 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Selections women alpine skiing 2012/13. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 32 kB) Swiss-Ski, April 18, 2012, accessed on May 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Portrait on Wendy Holdener's website, accessed February 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Wendy Holdener: A talent that can still dream. skionline.ch, November 3, 2010, archived from the original on January 16, 2013 ; Retrieved November 28, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Wendy Holdener young athlete 2011. skionline.ch, April 20, 2012, archived from the original on January 1, 2015 ; Retrieved April 21, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Slalom results 2016/2017 accessed on January 20, 2018
  7. ↑ Squaw Valley - Slalom blick.ch, March 11, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2018
  8. ↑ The "Poulidor" from the slalom rts.ch, January 3, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018
  9. ↑ Super-G women - Swiss quartet nominated - Hehlen has to pass. February 3, 2019, accessed February 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Mikaela Shiffrin goes on the offensive after renouncing the descent and combination. Retrieved on February 22, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Holdener awards world title: “Can't blame me for anything” - Gold to Shiffrin. watson , February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Friend Nico conjures up a heart for Wendy in the snow. Blick , February 15, 2017, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Wendy Holdener separates from her boyfriend Nico. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Holdener, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Unteriberg