Women's alpine skiing is populated by great champions and beautiful women. None of them, however, are passionate about Ferrari. The mountain remains a world far from that of car racing. But there is an exception in cross-country skiing, a small great Norwegian woman with a penchant for the Reds.
Cross-country skiing
Therese Johaug
An angel face and an iron will. A very hard discipline in contact with the nature of the North.
Terrible workouts and a great determination, great sacrifice. The physical pushed to the very limit.
Therese Johaug, born 25 June 1988, is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has won in world championships seven individual gold medals along with three gold medals in relays. She is a three-time Olympic medallist.
On June 16, 2016 Therese tested Ferrari 488 GTB
She was used to being the fastest of all in the ski tracks. But this was something completely different.
“I need air,” a pale Therese said after a ride in one of the world's most powerful sports cars.
It was the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that was present when the Norwegian ski queen met her car sponsor to test drive a real monster for a sports car: the 670 horsepower Ferrari 488 GTB.
A Ferrari 488 GTB costs about SEK 2.2 million, has a top speed of 330 kilometers per hour and goes from 0 to 100 km/hour in three seconds.
But with the Norwegian behind the wheel things went much calmer.
Those who followed Johaug's ride in Ferrari at the Rudskogen Motorsenter were in fact not really impressed by the driving.
“At least I went up to 140 kilometers per hour on the straight,it won't be enough." Therese confirmed.
Test driving sports cars is possibly a bit of fun. But nothing is more important to Johaug than to sharpen her own speed as a skier. “Now I have to go, I have an important workout tonight,” she told Dagbladet before leaving the circuit. “I have a lot of work to do. What was good last winter will not suffice during the upcoming World Cup season.”
Alpine skiing
They are the queens of snow, very fast and technical. Some of them are great champions and one is a legend, the greatest of all. Together they have colored and color the female white circus, making it unique. It is a pleasure to remember them here, even if they do not attend the car tracks. In common with the drivers, they have an unbridled competitive spirit and an excellent risk appetite. As the mountain, like the track, does not forgive and imposes rhythms, climates and discipline that are difficult for anyone to judge from the sofa.
Anna Fenninger
Athletic, beautiful and successful, Anna Fenninger was a protagonist.
She is an Austrian World Cupalpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist, the overall World Cup champion for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
Born 18 June 1989 in Hallein, Anna is from the village of Adnet in Salzburg and made her World Cup debut at age 17 in November 2006. She competed in all five alpine disciplines, but omitted slalom as of January 2012.
Her first major success was becoming world champion in the super combined in 2011, without having won a World Cup race before. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, she won the super-G at Rosa Khutor for her first Olympic medal and at the end of the season she won the World Cup overall and giant slalom titles.
Frida Hansdotter
Frida Marie Hansdotter, born 13 December 1985, is a Swedish former World Cupalpine ski racer and Olympic champion. She competed in the technical events and specialised in slalom. Hansdotter's father, Hans, was also an alpine racer and she is a second cousin of Prince Daniel.
On 6 March 2019, she announced her retirement from alpine skiing following the 2018–2019 season.
Born in Västerås, Hansdotter represented Sweden at three Winter Olympics and at seven World Championships. She gained her first World Cup victory at Kranjska Gora in 2014, which followed eight runner-up finishes, the most in World Cup history without a win. She was runner-up in the slalom season standings in 2014 and 2015 and won the title in 2016.
Frida has won three medals in the slalom at the World Championships: silver in 2015 and bronze in 2013 and 2017.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she won the women's slalom.
Nina Løseth
Nina Haver-Løseth, born 27 February 1989 in Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, is a retired Norwegian World Cupalpine ski racer and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
She made her World Cup debut in February 2006 and her first podium came in a slalom race at Zagreb in January 2015. In January 2016, she gained her first World Cup win in a slalom at Santa Caterina, becoming the first Norwegian woman to win a World Cup slalom since Trine Bakke almost exactly sixteen years earlier.
Her sisters Lene and Mona Løseth are also alpine ski racers.
Tina Maze
The badass of skiing. Beautiful, winning and with a lot of personality.
On the breach for a long time, she gave a lot to skiing.
Tina Maze, born 2 May 1983, is a retired Slovenian World Cupalpine ski racer.
She is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. With her four medals she is the most decorated Slovenian athlete at the Winter Olympics.
Tina started her career as a giant slalom specialist, but later competed in all five alpine skiing disciplines. She is one of seven female racers who has won in all five World Cup disciplines and one of three to do it in a single season. Maze is the 2014 Olympic champion in downhill and giant slalom and the 2015 world champion in downhill and combined. She was also the world champion in giant slalom in 2011 and super-G in 2013.
Tina won a total of 26 World Cup races during her career and won the World Cup overall title in 2013. She also won the super-G and giant slalom titles.
Mikaela Shiffrin
She is the best skier ever. The girl next door.
Being still very young her records are not definitive, but she already has impressive statistics.
She skis on another planet, in history.
Beautiful, simple and sensitive, as she showed after her father’s loss.
And she can play the guitar.
A cocktail of elegance and lightness but her skis are always on edge, never lose speed.
Mikaela flies across the snow.
And not only... Looking at her skiing is simply an emotion. No skier, man or woman, has transmitted this feeling of absolute domination. She is simply too good for everyone.
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cupalpine skier. She is a three-time Overall World Cup champion, the four-time reigning world champion in slalom and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event. She is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days.
She is the first and only athlete—male or female—with wins in all six FIS Alpine Ski World Cup disciplines. She has won World Cup races in ladies' slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and alpine combined. She is the youngest skier—male or female—to win 50 World Cup races at the age of 23 years and 9 months.
She has won 66 World Cup races, the 2nd most all time by a female alpine skier, including 43 WC slalom races, the most won by any alpine skier, male or female. She is the only athlete - male or female - to have won 15 races in the same calendar year. In the 2019 season she became the first athlete, male or female, to win 17 World Cup races during a season, breaking the record of 14 wins that Vreni Schneider had held for 30 years. By winning the Gold in the Slalom at the 2019 World Championships, she became the first Alpine skier to win the world championship in the same discipline at four consecutive championships.
Born on March 13, 1995 in Vail, Colorado, Mikaela is the second child of Eileen Condron and Jeff Shiffrin, both originally from the Northeastern United States and former ski racers. Shiffrin's father Jeff grew up in New Jersey, but was an avid skier on weekends in Vermont with his family.
Lindsey Vonn
The synthesis of power on the snow. A 178 cm Walkiria, courageous and reckless to the limit. He wanted to ski in men's races, so much she felt superior to her colleagues. But she was equally loved for her passion for skiing.
She’s currently the best of all but will be beaten over time by Mikaela Shiffrin, the alien. Vonn wanted to break Ingemar Stenmark's wins record, she didn't make it. She gave all of herself for skiing, racing in frightening physical conditions, her body asked her to stop.
Thank you Lindsey.
Lindsey Vonn is an American former World Cupalpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships — one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll — with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012. She won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first one for an American woman. She also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), five titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015) and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). In 2016, she won her 20th World Cup crystal globe title, the overall record for men or women, surpassing Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, who won 19 globes from 1975 to 1984. She has the second highest super ranking of all skiers, men or women.
Vonn is one of six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing—downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined — and won 82 World Cup races in her career through February 3, 2018. Her total of 82 World Cup victories is a women's record, surpassing Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria who had held the record since the 1970s. Only Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86 World Cup victories has more. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 and 2011) and four overall World Cup titles, Lindsey is the most successful American ski racer and considered one of the greatest of all skiers.
In 2019, she announced her retirement, citing her injuries.
Born Lindsey Caroline Kildow in Saint Paul, Minnesota on October 18, 1984, she is the daughter of Linda Anne Krohn and Alan Lee Kildow. She grew up in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Burnsville, Minnesota. She is of Norwegian ancestry. Her father, who had won a national junior title before a knee injury at 18, "pushed" her very hard.
Maria Walliser
A champion now from another era but first level.
Maria Walliser, a Swiss former alpine skier, has illuminated the scene for many years, a winner.
Walliser, born 27 May 1963, grew up in Mosnang, the daughter of a wealthy cattle breeder. She made her World Cup debut in 1980. Together with her fellow Swiss Erika Hess, Michela Figini and Vreni Schneider she dominated female alpine skiing during the 1980s. Among her many successes, she won two overall World Cups (1986 and 1987). She also won three world titles in 1987 and 1989, as well as three Olympic medals at 1988 Calgary and 1984 Sarajevo.
Maria retired in 1990 with a World Cup tally of 72 podium finishes, including 25 victories.
Tina Weirather
Christina "Tina" Weirather is a retired LiechtensteinerWorld Cupalpine ski racer. She won a bronze medal in Super-G for Liechtenstein at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and has nine victories and forty podiums through December 2018.
On 25 March 2020 she announced her retirement.
Born 24 May 1989 in Vaduz, she 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), four Olympic medals overall. Her father Harti won the season title in downhill in 1981 and was world champion in 1982.
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