Fabienne Suter Explained

Fabienne Suter
Disciplines:Downhill, Super-G,
giant slalom, combined
Club:Hochstuckli Sattel
Skis:Stöckli
Boots:Lange
Bindings:Atomic
Sponsor:Victorinox -->
Birth Date:5 January 1985
Birth Place:Sattel, Schwyz, Switzerland
Height:168 cm
Retired:21 April 2017 (age 32)
Website:fabienne-suter.ch
Olympicteams:2 – (2010, 2014)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:7 – (2003, 200717)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:12 – (2003, 200717)
Wcwins:4 – (1 DH, 3 SG)
Wcpodiums:20 – (8 DH, 11 SG, 1 SC)
Wcoveralls:0 – (7th in 2009, 2010)
Wctitles:0 – (2nd in DH, 2016)
Show-Medals:yes

Fabienne Suter (born 5 January 1985) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. Born in Sattel in the canton of Schwyz, she specialized in super-G, giant slalom, and downhill.

Career

At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, she fell in the giant slalom and injured her pelvis. While recovering, Suter resided in Calgary, Canada, with close family friends. This was followed by other injuries. Following appearances in FIS and Europa Cup races, she returned to the World Cup in for the 2007 She won a bronze medal as part of the team at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2007 with Sandra Gini, Nadia Styger, Rabea Grand, Daniel Albrecht and Marc Berthod.

Her first top ten finish was in February 2008, a seventh place in downhill in St. Moritz. The next week she won her first World Cup race in the super-G in Sestriere, tied with Andrea Fischbacher. At the World Cup finals in Bormio, she won another super-G race on 13 March.

In the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden, Suter came in 11th in the super-G and 13th in the giant slalom, having had to start with a higher number. With the Swiss team she won the bronze medal in the team event, having contributed the second-fastest time in the super-G run.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined
18 110  — 48  —  —  —
22 95  — 46 36  —  —
23 21  — 35 3 35  —
24 7  — 20 3 8 6
25 7  — 27 4 7 6
26 18  — 31 12 15 13
27 18  — 36 5 16  —
28 28  — 44 7 25  —
29 30  — 47 23 14 22
30 25  —  — 20 9  —
31 11  —  — 11 2  —
32 69  —  — 40 26  —

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
200810 Feb 2008 Sestriere, Italy Super-G[1] 1st
13 Mar 2008 Bormio, Italy Super-G 1st
20097 Dec 2008 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G 2nd
19 Dec 2008   St. Moritz, Switzerland 3rd
20 Dec 2008 Super-G 2nd
22 Feb 2009 Tarvisio, Italy Super-G 2nd
27 Feb 2009 Bansko, Bulgaria 1st
28 Feb 2009 Downhill 3rd
1 Mar 2009 Super-G 2nd
201022 Jan 2010 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 2nd
30 Jan 2010   St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
2012 7 Dec 2011 Beaver Creek, USA Super-G 2nd
7 Jan 2012 Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Downhill 3rd
8 Jan 2012 Super-G 1st
201313 Jan 2013 St. Anton, Austria Super-G 3rd
20165 Dec 2015 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
19 Dec 2015 Val-d'Isère, France Downhill 2nd
6 Feb 2016 Garmisch, Germany Downhill 2nd
12 Mar 2016   Lenzerheide, Switzerland Super-G 2nd
16 Mar 2016   St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 2nd

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
18 DNF2
20
22
24 8
26 DNS2
28
30
32

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
25 6
29

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Notes and References

  1. Tied with Andrea Fischbacher