Conradign Netzer (born 2 August 1980) is a

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freestyle skier Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...

who specializes in the

skicross Ski cross is a skiing competition which incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle skiing with courses which include big-air jumps and high-banked turns. In spite of the fact that it is a timed racing event, it is often cons ...

discipline. He made his World Cup debut in November 2003 in Saas-Fee, and collected his first World Cup points with a sixteenth place in January 2004 in

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. He equalled this place in two World Cup races, in January 2005 and January 2006 respectively, and also finished fourteenth at the 2005 World Championships. In the 2008–09 season he opened with a 26th place, and followed with fourteenth, sixteenth and nineteenth places before recording his best World Cup result at the time, a fifth place in

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in March. Retrieved on 1 February 2009. In the next season he reached the world cup podium for the first time in his career, with a third place at

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. The best form of his career came at the end of the 2010–11 season. He achieved third place in the event at Branas and then a career-best second place in the event at Myrkdalen-Voss. In the same year he finished sixth at the 2011 World Championships. He is also the current Swiss National Champion having won the title in Arosa. He represents the sports club SV Andeer. Netzer will be the head coach of the High Performance Centre New Zealand's (HPCNZ) Men's Team this Southern hemisphere winter season at

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in Wānaka.

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1980 births Living people Swiss male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub