Sandra Schmitt (April 26, 1981 – November 11, 2000) was a German
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 ...
. In 1998, she came 9th in the Women's Moguls contest at the
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...
in
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
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She became the
Women's Dual Moguls World Champion in 1999. Schmitt died with her parents in the
Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending train in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster killed 155 people (150 on the ascending train, two on the descending t ...
on 11 November 2000.
References
External links
International Ski Federation profile
1981 births
2000 deaths
People from Groß-Gerau (district)
Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region)
Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
German female freestyle skiers
Railway accident deaths in Austria
Deaths from fire
20th-century German women
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