Tina Weirather Explained

Tina Weirather
Disciplines:Super-G, downhill, giant slalom
Club:Ski Club Schaan
Birth Date:24 May 1989
Birth Place:Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Height:1.62 m
Wcdebut:22 October 2005 (age 16)
Retired:25 March 2020 (age 30)
Website:tina-weirather.com
Olympicteams:3 – (2006, 2014, 2018)
Olympicmedals:1
Olympicgolds:0
Worldsteams:6 – (200507, 201319)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:13 – (20062008, 2010,
20122020)
Wcwins:9 – (1 DH, 7 SG, 1 GS)
Wcpodiums:41 – (14 DH, 21 SG, 6 GS)
Wcoveralls:0 – (4th in 2016)
Wctitles:2 – (2 SG, 2017, 2018)
Show-Medals:yes

Christina Weirather (born 24 May 1989) is a retired Liechtensteiner World Cup alpine ski racer. She won a bronze medal in Super-G for Liechtenstein at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Racing career

Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and had nine victories and 41 podiums through her retirement in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weirather competed in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and finished 33rd in the super-G, but did not finish in the downhill. She had qualified to ski in four events at the 2010 Winter Olympics: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and the combined. Just weeks before the Olympics on 23 January, while competing in a World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Weirather suffered another anterior cruciate ligament injury to her right knee and missed the Olympics,[1] as well as the following World Cup season of 2011.[2]

Following years of training alongside her compatriots on the Liechtenstein Alpine Ski team, Weirather switched to training with the Swiss team.[3]

During the fourth training run for the downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Weirather crashed at Rosa Khutor on 9 February and injured her lower right leg.[4] The bone contusion caused her to miss her starts in the Olympics and the remainder of the 2014 World Cup season. At the time, she was second in the World Cup overall, downhill and super-G standings and third in the giant slalom.[5]

On 25 March 2020 she announced her retirement.[6]

Personal life

Born in Vaduz, Weirather is the daughter of former World Cup ski racers Harti Weirather of Austria and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein (and the niece of Andreas Wenzel).[1] Her mother Hanni won two overall World Cup titles (1978, 1980) and two Olympic gold medals (1980), 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 1981 and was world champion in 1982.[7] [8]

Weirather married Swiss radio host Fabio Nay in September 2022.[9] The couple have a son, Lio, born in January 2024.[10]

World Cup results

Season titles

Season
Discipline
2017Super-G
2018Super-G

Season standings

Season
AgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
DownhillCombined
17 56 23 51 43 16
18 109 39
19 injured: out for season
20 58 41 25 38 32
21 injured: out for season
22 9 30 7 33
23 18 37 9 6
24 5 10 4 17
25 10 10 8 7
26 4 43 5 8
27 7 13 5
28 6 31
29 17 56 15
30 24 16 23

Race podiums

Season
DateLocationDisciplinePlace
2012 2 Dec 2011 Lake Louise, Canada 2nd
28 Jan 2012   St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
4 Feb 2012 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 3rd
5 Feb 2012 3rd
26 Feb 2012 Bansko, Bulgaria Super-G 2nd
2013 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 3rd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"1 Mar 2013 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 1st
2014 29 Nov 2013 Beaver Creek, USA Downhill 2nd
1 Dec 2013 3rd
7 Dec 2013 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
8 Dec 2013 Super-G 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"14 Dec 2013    St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"22 Dec 2013 Val-d'Isère, France Giant slalom 1st
24 Jan 2014 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy   Downhill 2nd
25 Jan 2014 Downhill 3rd
26 Jan 2014 Super-G 2nd
2015 5 Dec 2014 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 3rd
19 Jan 2015 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 3rd
21 Feb 2015 Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"7 Mar 2015 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 1st
2016 24 Oct 2015 Sölden, Austria   3rd
28 Dec 2015 Lienz, Austria   Giant slalom 2nd
24 Jan 2016 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 2nd
30 Jan 2016 Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"21 Feb 2016 La Thuile, Italy Super-G 1st
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"17 Mar 2016    St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st
2017 4 Dec 2016 Lake Louise, Canada Super-G 2nd
18 Dec 2016 Val-d'Isère, France Super-G 2nd
15 Jan 2017 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria Downhill 2nd
22 Jan 2017 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 3rd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"16 Mar 2017 Aspen, USA Super-G 1st
2018 1 Dec 2017 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"3 Dec 2017 Super-G 1st
9 Dec 2017    St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 3rd
17 Dec 2017 Val-d'Isère, France Super-G 2nd
20 Jan 2018 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill 2nd
4 Feb 2018 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 3rd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"3 Mar 2018 Super-G 1st
2019 8 Dec 2018    St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 3rd
19 Dec 2018 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 2nd
20 Jan 2019 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 2nd

World Championship results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
15 31
17 DNS2
19 injured, did not compete <-->
21 -->
23 DNS2
25
27 DNS1
29 DNS2

Olympic results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
16
20 injured: did not compete
24 DNS^ DNS^
28

^ injured during downhill training run

Other honours

Alpine skiing Junior World championships

Swiss Alpine skiing championships

German Alpine skiing championships

Liechtenstein Alpine skiing championships

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Liechtenstein skier Tina Weirather follows in her family's rich Olympic tradition . Courier Islander . . Associated Press . Dunbar . Graham . 23 December 2013 . 24 January 2014.
  2. Web site: Perseverance has Tina Weirather on cusp of own Olympic Alpine greatness . NBC Olympics . Battaglia . Joe . 1 February 2014 . 26 February 2014.
  3. Web site: Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather is on the fast track .
  4. Web site: Injury knocks medal contender Tina Weirather from Sochi downhill . NBC Olympics . Battaglia . Joe . 11 February 2014. 26 February 2014.
  5. Season ends early for Tina Weirather . Ski Racing . 25 February 2014 . 26 February 2014.
  6. Web site: Tina Weirather – Fürstentum Liechtenstein . www.liechtenstein.li . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200325121439/https://www.liechtenstein.li/en/sport/international-sporting-success/tina-weirather/ . 2020-03-25.
  7. Web site: COMPETITORS HAVING MORE THAN ONE PODIUM. fis-ski.com. 3 February 2018.
  8. Web site: COMPETITORS HAVING MORE THAN ONE TOP 10 POSITION. fis-ski.com. 4 February 2018.
  9. News: Hochzeitsglocken! Ex-Ski-Star hat geheiratet. heute.at. 2022-09-21. de.
  10. News: Lio Weirather ist auf der Welt. German. Liechtensteiner Vaterland. 29 January 2024.