Claudia Lösch (born 19 October 1988) is a successful

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and alpine

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er. She won gold medals in the slalom and super slalom at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. She also won a silver medal at the Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's Super-G.

Life

Lösch was born in 1988 in Vienna and at early age she was left paraplegic in 1994. Losch was brought up in Neupölla and graduated from her school in

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in 2007 before studying

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geschichte.landesmuseum.net, retrieved 26 January 2014 Losch took up alpine sports where she has been successful in the "women sitting" events. She has won five medals at Paralympics including two gold medals. She has also completed successfully at the world championships. Losch competed in the World Cup in Canada.

Results

* European Cup overall victories in 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06. * Overall World Cup victories in 2008/09 and 2009/10 * Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2009

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: silver in giant slalom and super combined, * Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2011

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, (Italy): Bronze in Downhill and Super-G, Silver in the super combined, Silver in slalom and giant slalom * 2006 Winter Paralympics

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(Italy): bronze in the downhill, * 2010 Winter Paralympics

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(Canada): gold in super-G and slalom, silver in the Super Combine. * 2014 Winter Paralympics

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(Russia): silver in super-G and giant slalom

References

External links

Lösch at 2010 Paralympics
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