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Born | Engelberg, Obwalden, Switzerland | 15 April 1989||||||||||||||
Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Skiing career | |||||||||||||||
Disciplines | Slalom, Combined, Downhill, Super-G | ||||||||||||||
Club | Engelberg | ||||||||||||||
World Cup debut | 5 February 2008 (age 18) | ||||||||||||||
Website | denisefeierabend.ch | ||||||||||||||
Olympics | |||||||||||||||
Teams | 2 – (2014, 2018) | ||||||||||||||
Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||
World Championships | |||||||||||||||
Teams | 3 – (2009, 2011, 2017) | ||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||
World Cup | |||||||||||||||
Seasons | 11 – (2008–2018) | ||||||||||||||
Podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 – (43rd in 2014) | ||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 0 – (8th in AC, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Denise Feierabend (born 15 April 1989) is a Swiss former World Cup alpine ski racer. [1] Born in Engelberg, Obwalden, [2] she competed for Switzerland at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Feierabend won the gold medal in the team competition, which was held for the first time, on 24 February as part of the Swiss team (with Wendy Holdener, Luca Aerni, Daniel Yule and Ramon Zenhäusern). Three weeks after the end of the season, she announced her retirement from top-level sport on 8 April 2018. [3]
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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2008 | 18 | 108 | 48 | — | — | — | — |
2009 | 19 | 79 | 31 | — | — | — | 34 |
2010 | 20 | 103 | — | — | — | — | 21 |
2011 | 21 | 61 | 24 | — | — | — | 23 |
2012 | 22 | 56 | 28 | — | — | 49 | 7 |
2013 | 23 | ||||||
2014 | 24 | 43 | 17 | — | — | — | 10 |
2015 | 25 | 67 | 31 | — | — | — | 11 |
2016 | 26 | 50 | 28 | — | 35 | 33 | 8 |
2017 | 27 | 56 | 22 | — | 53 | 44 | 16 |
2018 | 28 | 23 | 11 | — | 39 | 43 | 8 |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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2009 | 19 | 6 | — | — | — | — |
2011 | 21 | 21 | 35 | — | — | 6 |
2013 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — |
2015 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — |
2017 | 27 | 9 | — | — | — | 4 |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Mixed team |
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2014 | 24 | 17 | — | — | — | 12 | — |
2018 | 28 | 14 | — | — | — | 9 | 1 |
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