Claudia Lösch Explained

Claudia Lösch
Residence:Innsbruck, Austria
Nationality:Austrian

Claudia Lösch (born 19 October 1988) is a successful Austrian Paralympian and alpine monoskier. She won gold medals in the slalom and super slalom at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. She also won a silver medal at the Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's super-G.

Life

Lösch was born in 1988 in Vienna and at early age she was left paraplegic in 1994. Losch was brought up in Neupölla and graduated from her school in Horn in 2007 before studying political science in Innsbruck.[1]

Losch took up alpine sports where she has been successful in the "women sitting" events. She has won five medals at Paralympics including two gold medals. She has also completed successfully at the world championships. Losch competed in the World Cup in Canada.[2]

Honours

In 2014, she was awarded the 2014 Disabled Athletes of the Year award in Vienna, Austria.[3]

Results

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/personen/personendetail.asp___id=2145905559 Claudia Lösch
  2. News: Mono-skier Schaffelhuber in Canada class by itself. 26 January 2014. Idowa. https://web.archive.org/web/20140220032703/http://www.idowa.de/home/artikel/2014/01/21/mono-skifahrerin-schaffelhuber-in-kanada-klasse-fuer-sich.html. 20 February 2014. dead.
  3. Web site: Claudia Losch and Markus Salcher named Austrian Disabled Athletes of the Year . 2024-07-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.