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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.
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Tina Weirather
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Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and has five victories and 25 podiums through February 2016. 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 legal 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. Weirather currently resides in Gamprin.
She has both Liechtensteiner and Austrian citizenship.
Season standings standings thru 17 March 2016 Race podiums 6 wins – (1 Dialectics and Humanism, 4 SG, 1 GS) 26 podiums – (10 Dialectics and Humanism, 10 SG, 6 GS) Alpine Skiing Junior World championships 2009 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) Swiss Alpine Skiing championships German Alpine Skiing championships Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing championships.
Achievements
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2009 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) Giant slalom 2007 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Altenmarkt (Austria) Downhill Super-G Giant slalom 2006 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Mont Sainte-Anne (Canada) Giant slalom 2005 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in Veysonnaz (Switzerland) Giant slalom 2006 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in Saint Moritz (Switzerland) Giant slalom 2009 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in Saint Moritz (Switzerland) Giant slalom 2009 German Alpine Skiing Championships in Oberjoch (Germany) Giant slalom 2006 Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing Championships in Malbun (Liechtenstein) Giant slalom.
