Christina "Tina" Weirather (born 24 May 1989) is a retired Liechtensteiner

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alpine ski racer. She won a bronze medal in

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for

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at the

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Racing career

Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October

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and had nine victories and 41 podiums through her retirement in

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, during the

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. Weirather competed in two events at the

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, Italy, and finished 33rd in the

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, but did not finish in the

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. She had qualified to ski in four events at the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...

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, and the combined. Just weeks before the Olympics on 23 January, while competing in a World Cup downhill at

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, Weirather suffered another

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injury to her right knee and missed the Olympics, as well as the following World Cup season of

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. Following years of training alongside her compatriots on the Liechtenstein Alpine Ski team, Weirather switched to training with the Swiss team. During the fourth training run for the

at the

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, Weirather crashed at

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on 9 February and injured her lower right leg. The bone contusion caused her to miss her starts in the Olympics and the remainder of the

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season. At the time, she was second in the World Cup overall, downhill and super-G standings and third in the giant slalom. On 25 March 2020 she announced her retirement.

Personal life

Born in

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, Weirather is the daughter of former World Cup ski racers

Harti Weirather Hartmann "Harti" Weirather (born January 25, 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Reutte, Tyrol, he specialized in the downhill event. Racing career During the early 1980s, Weirather won six World Cup downhill ra ...

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and

Hanni Wenzel Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel. vancouver2010.com. 23 January 2010 (born 14 December 1956) is a retired Liechtensteiner alpine ski racer. Weirather is a former Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won Liechtenstein's first-ever Olympic medal at ...

of Liechtenstein (and the niece of

Andreas Wenzel Andreas Wenzel (born 18 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein, active from 1976 to 1988. Born in Planken, he was the overall World Cup champion in 1980, the same season in which his older sister Hanni won the w ...

). Her mother Hanni won two overall World Cup titles (

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) and two

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gold medals (

), four Olympic medals overall; uncle Andreas won the men's overall World Cup title in 1980 and 2 Olympic medals. Her father Harti won the season title in downhill in

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and was

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. Weirather currently resides in

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and has

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in Liechtenstein and Austria. She is a keen fan of Liechtenstein football club

World Cup results

Season titles

Season standings

Race podiums

* 9 wins (1 DH, 7 SG, 1 GS) * 41 podiums (14 DH, 21 SG, 6 GS)

World Championship results

Olympic results

:^ injured during downhill training run

Other honours

Alpine Skiing Junior World championships

*2009 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

(Germany) ** Giant slalom *2007 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Altenmarkt (Austria) ** Downhill ** Super-G ** Giant slalom *2006 Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships in Mont Sainte-Anne (Canada) ** Giant slalom

Swiss Alpine Skiing championships

*2005 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in

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(Switzerland) ** Giant slalom *2006 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in St. Moritz (Switzerland) ** Giant slalom *2009 Swiss Alpine Skiing Championships in St. Moritz (Switzerland) ** Giant slalom

German Alpine Skiing championships

*2009 German Alpine Skiing Championships in

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(Germany) ** Giant slalom

Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing championships

*2006 Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing Championships in

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(Liechtenstein) ** Giant slalom

References

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