Rabea Grand (born 15 June 1984) is a retired alpine skier who rose to be the Swiss national champion at 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 ...

in 2009.

Life

Grand was born in 1984 in Leuk in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. She was active as an FIS ski racer from December 1999 to 2011. She was in the top ten in two world cup racesRabea Grand
retrieved February 2014. and she won the bronze medal as part of the team at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2007 with

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Nadia Styger Nadia Styger (born 11 December 1978, in Zug) is a former Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. Styger won a total of four Alpine Skiing World Cup races. She was several times Swiss champion in downhill and super-G. She won a bronze medal as part of ...

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, Daniel Albrecht and

Marc Berthod Marc Berthod (born 24 November 1983 in Saint-Moritz) is a retired Swiss alpine skier. In 2005, he was Swiss champion in giant slalom. He finished 7th in the combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On 7 January 2007, Berthod won the world cu ...

. In 2009, she was the Swiss national champion at the giant slalom. She retired in 2011.

References

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