Leona Popović (; born 13 November 1997) is a Croatian
alpine ski racer. Previously, she competed in all disciplines, but now specialises in
slalom
To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to:
Sports
;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding
* Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Super-G ...
. Her best World Cup finish is sixth in slalom, achieved twice.
Popović's first major competition was the
2015 World Championships in
Beaver Creek, USA, where she competed in all disciplines at age seventeen; her best result was 27th in
slalom
To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to:
Sports
;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding
* Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Super-G ...
.
By her 22nd birthday, she had incurred three surgeries on her left leg. In 2015, she broke her tibia while training slalom, and two surgeries were required in 2018 to fix torn knee ligaments (
ACL and
MCL
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) sustained in a crash at the
Olympics
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in the second run of the
giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...
.
World Cup results
Season standings
:
Top ten finishes
* 0 podiums
* 6 top tens (6
SL)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
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1997 births
Croatian female alpine skiers
Living people
Sportspeople from Rijeka
Olympic alpine skiers of Croatia
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
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