Fränzi Aufdenblatten

Fränzi Aufdenblatten
 Alpine skier 

Aufdenblatten in January 2009
Disciplines Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
Club Zermatt
Born (1981-02-10) 10 February 1981
Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
World Cup debut 11 March 2000 (age 19)
Website fraenzi-aufdenblatten.ch
Olympics
Teams 3 – (2002, 2006, 2014)
Medals 0
World Championships
Teams 5 – (200309, 2013)
Medals 0
World Cup
Seasons 11
Wins 1 – (1 SG
Podiums 4 – (3 DH, 1 SG)
Overall titles 0 – (18th in 2004)
Discipline titles 0 – (5th in DH, 2006)

Franziska Christine "Fränzi" Aufdenblatten (born 10 February 1981) is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer.

Born in Zermatt, Valais, Aufdenblatten made her World Cup debut in March 2000 in a giant slalom at Sestriere. She scored four podium finishes on the World Cup: one win in a super-G in Val-d'Isère in December 2009, and three third places in downhill at Haus im Ennstal (2004), Bad Kleinkirchheim (2006), and Lenzerheide (2014). Aufdenblatten competed in three Winter Olympics (2002, 2006 and 2014) and her best finish was a sixth place in the 2014 super-G at Rosa Khutor.

After the 2014 Games, Aufdenblatten announced that she would be retiring from competition at the end of the season in order to start a new career in sports management.[1] After announcing her retirement, she scored a fourth and final World Cup podium finish with a third place in the downhill at the 2014 World Cup Finals at Lenzerheide in her native Switzerland.[2]

World Cup victories

Date Location Discipline
20 December 2009 Val-d'Isère, France Super-G

References

  1. "Fränzi Aufdenblatten announces retirement". Fédération Internationale de Ski. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  2. "Lara Gut gewinnt" [Lara Gut wins]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.

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