Maria Höfl-Riesch

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Riesch in January 2009

Maria Höfl-Riesch (Script error: No such module "IPA".; née Riesch, born 24 November 1984) is a German former alpine ski racer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, two-time World champion, an overall World Cup champion and five-time World junior champion.

Höfl-Riesch made her World Cup debut in February 2001 and won gold medals in slalom and super combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She won the World Cup overall title in 2011.[1] At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she defended her super combined title to win her third Olympic gold medal, and also won a silver medal in the super-G.

Career

Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,[2] Höfl-Riesch was a prodigious talent as a junior and won seven medals in all of the disciplines at four Junior World Championships, including three gold medals in combined and super-G.[3]

As the racing careers of Martina Ertl-Renz and Hilde Gerg concluded, Höfl-Riesch rose as the leading female racer on the German national team. Injuries cut short her seasons in 2005 and 2006, causing her to miss the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 Winter Olympics.

During the 2009 season, Höfl-Riesch won four slalom events on the World Cup tour and won the gold medal in the slalom at the World Championships. Prior to 2009, her most successful season was in 2004, when she finished third in the overall World Cup standings, with three race victories. She also finished third in the overall standings in 2008. In the 2007 season she won her second downhill race, at Lake Louise, Canada.

Riesch won two gold medals at the 2010 Winter Olympics, in the super combined and slalom. After finishing second in the overall World Cup standings in 2009 and 2010, Riesch built a big lead early in the 2011 season which was enough to win the overall title, besting three-time defending champion Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. by just three points. At the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Vonn took the overall lead after the downhill, then Riesch reclaimed it after the slalom;[4] the super-G and giant slalom races were cancelled due to poor conditions.[1] She retired after the 2014 season after crashing in the downhill World Cup Final.[5]

Personal

Höfl-Riesch is also a nationally ranked tennis player and a cyclist.[6] Her younger sister, Susanne Riesch, is also a former World Cup ski racer, specializing in the slalom.[7] Her uncle, Wolfgang Zimmerer was a bobsledder during the 1960s and 1970s and competed for West Germany in the Winter Olympics, winning gold with Peter Utzschneider at the Two-man bobsleigh during the 1972 Winter Olympics.[8] She has been a chief constable in the Bundeszollverwaltung (German Federal Customs Service) during her sports career.

One of her closest friends (and major rival) on the World Cup tour was Lindsey Vonn of the United States.

Höfl-Riesch married her manager Marcus Höfl on 14 April 2011.[9]

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World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
2008 Super-G
Combined
2009 Slalom
2010 Slalom
2011 Overall
2014 Downhill

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2001 16 109 – – 42 — —
2002 17 96 46 50 — — —
2003 18 32 40 42 37 14 3
2004 19 3 9 18 5 7 —
2005 20 43 44 32 26 27 —
2006 21 69 – 49 35 44 —
2007 22 14 25 22 18 7 36
2008 23 3 8 25 1 9 1
2009 24 2 1 15 10 3 4
2010 25 2 1 8 9 2 5
2011 26 1 3 8 2 2 3
2012 27 3 7 16 6 4 4
2013 28 2 9 6 5 3 9
2014 29 2 5 14 5 1 3

Source:[10]

Race victories

  • 27 wins – (11 DH, 3 SG, 9 SL, 4 SC) + 1 NTE
Season Date Location Discipline
2004
3 victories
(1 DH, 1 SG, 1 SL)		 30 Jan 2004 Template:Flagicon Haus im Ennstal, Austria Downhill
1 Feb 2004 Super-G
29 Feb 2004 Template:Flagicon Levi, Finland Slalom
2007 1 Dec 2006 Template:Flagicon Lake Louise, Canada Downhill
2008
(1 SG, 1 SC)		 21 Jan 2008 Template:Flagicon Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G
24 Feb 2008 Template:Flagicon Whistler, Canada Super combined
2009
5 victories
(4 SL, 1 SC)		 14 Dec 2008 Template:Flagicon La Molina, Spain Slalom
29 Dec 2008 Template:Flagicon Semmering, Austria Slalom
4 Jan 2009 Template:Flagicon Zagreb, Croatia Slalom
11 Jan 2009 Template:Flagicon Maribor, Slovenia Slalom
20 Feb 2009 Template:Flagicon Tarvisio, Italy Super combined
2010
3 victories
(1 SL, 2 DH)		 14 Nov 2009 Template:Flagicon Levi, Finland Slalom
30 Jan 2010  Template:Flagicon  St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill
10 Mar 2010 Template:Flagicon Garmisch, Germany Downhill
2011
7 victories
(3 DH, 1 SL, 1 SC,
1 SG, 1 NTE)		 3 Dec 2010 Template:Flagicon Lake Louise, Canada Downhill
4 Dec 2010 Downhill
11 Jan 2011 Template:Flagicon Flachau, Austria Slalom
22 Jan 2011 Template:Flagicon Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill
25 Feb 2011 Template:Flagicon Åre, Sweden Super combined
27 Feb 2011 Super-G
20 Mar 2011  Template:Flagicon  Lenzerheide, Switzerland Team event
2012
3 victories
(1 DH, 1 SL, 1 SC)		 29 Jan 2012  Template:Flagicon  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super combined
18 Feb 2012 Template:Flagicon Sochi, Russia Downhill
10 Mar 2012 Template:Flagicon Åre, Sweden Slalom
2013 10 Nov 2012 Template:Flagicon Levi, Finland Slalom
2014
3 victories
(3 DH)		 6 Dec 2013 Template:Flagicon Lake Louise, Canada Downhill
7 Dec 2013 Downhill
24 Jan 2014 Template:Flagicon Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2003 18 DNF1 DNF1 DNF 17 5
2005 20 injured, did not compete
2007 22 — 23 10 9 7
2009 24 1 28 8 10 4
2011 26 4 DNF2 3 3 11
2013 28 DNF2 9 DNF 3 1

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2006 21 injured, did not compete
2010 25 1 10 8 8 1
2014 29 4 DNS1 2 13 1

See also

References

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Awards
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