Katharina Dürr (born 1989) is a retired
German
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alpine skier
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.
She competed at the
2007
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Events
January
* January 1
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,
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
and
2009 Junior World Championships, only in the slalom. The highlight was winning the silver medal in 2007. She finished 23rd in the slalom at the
2011 World Championships.
[
She made her ]World Cup
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debut in December 2007 in Lienz
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, also collecting her first World Cup points with a 26th place. Already the next week she improved to 11th place in Špindlerův Mlýn
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. Almost exclusively a slalom racer, in the 2009–10 season she improved further to 7th, 5th and 9th places in Levi
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, Flachau
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and Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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respectively. This was her pinnacle season, and her last World Cup outing came in November 2012 in Levi.[ She is a daughter of Peter Dürr and sister of ]Lena Dürr
Lena Dürr (born 4 August 1991) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in slalom.
Career
Dürr made her World Cup debut in February 2008. She has two World Cup wins; the first was also her first podium, a parallel slalom ...
.
References
1989 births
Living people
Skiers from Munich
German female alpine skiers
21st-century German sportswomen
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