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Wendy Holdener (born 12 May 1993) is a Swiss
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at Head website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holdener, Wendy Swiss female alpine skiers 1993 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Sportspeople from the canton of Schwyz 21st-century Swiss women
World Cup
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alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom
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and combined. She is a two-time World champion in combined and a five-time Olympic medalist, four individual with one gold medal in the team event at Pyeongchang in 2018
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. Four years later in 2022
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, she won a silver medal in the combined.
Career
Holdener made her World Cup debut inSölden
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in October 2010
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, and attained her first podium in March 2013
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, a second place in slalom
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;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 ...
at Ofterschwang. In 2016
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, she gained her first two World Cup victories and won the crystal globe title in the combined discipline.
Holdener's first win in a World Cup slalom came in November 2022
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at Killington, shared with Anna Swenn-Larsson, after thirty previous podiums in the discipline without a victory. Another win came two weeks later at Sestriere
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, Italy
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.
World Cup results
Season titles
* 2 titles – (2 combined)Season standings
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Race podiums
* 5 wins – (2 SL, 1 PSL, 2 AC) * 47 podiums – (33 SL, 5 PSL, 5 AC, 2 GS, 2 SG)World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
* * *Swiss Ski team
at Swiss Ski Team
Head Skis
at Head website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holdener, Wendy Swiss female alpine skiers 1993 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Sportspeople from the canton of Schwyz 21st-century Swiss women