Club Ski Club Schaan Role Alpine ski racer Website tina-weirather.com Height 1.64 m | Teams 2 – (2006, 2014) Weight 65 kg Name Tina Weirather Medals 0 | |
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World Cup debut 22 October 2005 (age 16) Teams 4 – (2005, '07, '13, '15) Parents Harti Weirather, Hanni Wenzel Siblings Herbi Weirather, Tom Weirather Similar People Lara Gut, Anna Fenninger, Mikaela Shiffrin, Harti Weirather, Hanni Wenzel Profiles | ||
Behind The Results with Tina Weirather | FIS Alpine
Christina "Tina" Weirather (born 24 May 1989) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein.
Contents
- Behind The Results with Tina Weirather FIS Alpine
- Tina weirather gs lsc 11 15 2015
- Racing career
- Personal
- Race podiums
- Alpine Skiing Junior World championships
- Swiss Alpine Skiing championships
- German Alpine Skiing championships
- Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing championships
- References
Tina weirather gs lsc 11 15 2015
Racing career
Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and has five victories and 25 podiums through February 2016.
Weirather competed in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and finished 33rd in the super-G, but did not finish in the downhill. She had qualified to ski in four events at the 2010 Winter Olympics: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and the combined. Just weeks before the Olympics on 23 January, while competing in a World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Weirather suffered another anterior cruciate ligament injury to her right knee and missed the Olympics, as well as the following World Cup season of 2011.
Following years of training alongside her compatriots on the Liechtenstein Alpine Ski team, Weirather now trains with the Swiss team.
During the fourth training run for the downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Weirather crashed at Rosa Khutor on 9 February and injured her lower right leg. The bone contusion caused her to miss her starts in the Olympics and the remainder of the 2014 World Cup season. At the time, she was second in the World Cup overall, downhill and super-G standings and third in the giant slalom.
Personal
Born in Vaduz, Weirather is the daughter of former World Cup ski racers Harti Weirather of Austria and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein (and the niece of Andreas Wenzel). Her mother Hanni won two overall World Cup titles (1978, 1980) and two Olympic gold medals (1980); uncle Andreas won the men's overall World Cup title in 1980. Her father Harti won the season title in downhill in 1981 and was world champion in 1982.
Weirather currently resides in Gamprin and has dual citizenship in Liechtenstein and Austria.