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25 more years to accomplish has already won all the greatest things that a girl who is dedicated to downhill skiing can win: the global gold, Olympic gold and the overall World Cup. But it's no wonder why the girl in question, Anna Fenninger, has always been considered one that was destined to quickly reach these goals.
Thursday 13 March 2014 8 minutes reading time
Born June 18, 1989 in Hallein, Salzburg, and living in Adnet, Land of the same, he completed his studies at the hotel school in Bad Hofgastein. Like many young men and women of great talent on the first important success of Anna arrives at the Trofeo Topolino where in 2004 he won the slalom in the Cadet category. The next season begins to play FIS and in February 2005 he won two bronze medals at the European Youth Olympic Festival in slalom and super-G. Winter 2005-2006 is inserted in the Austrian national team and made his debut in the European Cup winning immediately to debut with four victories, all in giant which also won the trophy specialty, and a further five podiums and distributed among the giant slalom. If in the continental event excels in technical disciplines the Junior World Championships which will be played in Canada dominates the fast ones winning gold and silver in super-G downhill: stuff to rub his eyes.
In 2006-2007, six more wins, three of which he won the super-G in the list, and three giant, make them do an encore in the overall standings of the European Cup. Of course, all these excellent results led her to debut in the World Cup slalom in Levi November 11, 2006 his first points came in the giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 21 January 2007, which is the sixteenth, but a fall in the downhill the super combined in Tarvisio on March 2, 2007, the forces it to skip the Junior World Championships in his home in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee and Flachau. The following season, three other successes in the European Cup and four squares of honor placing third in the overall won by Lara Gut, another predestined as she is a great friend with whom and with whom he dueled early age and presumably continue to battle even the next few years. In the World Cup downhill but is not yet in the super combined in St. Anton 22 December 2007 he received his first result in the top ten and finished fourth. The Junior World Championships in Formigal dominates the scene: it is in the ten suits in races and won silver in super-G and giant slalom and combined gold.
The winter of 2008-2009 will see the cadets leave the competition with a bronze medal in the junior world super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and its 14th and final partial victory in the European Cup in slalom. In his first downhill of the World Cup is the eighth December 5, 2008, starting with 41, now competes in all specialties and is growing slowly but steadily especially in speed and multiple tender enough to get the other three placings in the top ten of the which one is his first podium, second place in the super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 26, 2009. He made his debut at the World Championships seniors and finished fourth and seventh in super-G in Val d'Isere super combined.
At the Olympics the following year in Whistler is not always better than two sixteenths places in super-G and super combined World Cup curls and only three top ten: the 2009-2010 season is interlocutory but by the next one, which gives up the slalom , begins to be in a new dimension: two third places and ten other Top 10 in the World Cup but above all the gold in the super combined in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For the first Cup victory is only a matter of time and this comes December 28, 2011 in Lienz giant in Circus specialty in which Rosa had struggled until then but that a definitive confirmation. At the end of the season fifth in the overall standings, third in the one after that (with two victories and a giant in the super-G) and finally, in the current season, the triumph in the overall, accompanied by three partial successes, all in giant specialty in which he received no fewer than six of his seven victories in the Cup, and gold from silver in super-G and giant Olympic in Sochi 2014. Do not miss the appointment with either the podium at the World Championships in Schladming in 2013 where it was bronze in giant slalom.
Anna Fenninger is a complete skier, able to go fast on steep slopes and less steep, the snow soft and hard about that and in all specialties: it is no coincidence that it began almost more than slalom skier who gigantista then gigantista also become very strong in the sprints. His having finished in the first eleven 22 times out of 23 races in this season's Cup says a lot about how Anna is eclectic. Then certainly was helped by injuries of others, especially those of Tina Weirather and Maria Riesch in the final part of the season, and by the lower consistency of performance of Lara Gut, who also won four races over her, compared to her, but the technical skills and mental Anna can not be discussed, as well as the fact that it is present in areas of high or very high ranking in the appointments that count. Finally, it is also a beautiful girl, what more could you want?
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