Emma Aicher

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Emma Aicher
Emma Aicher Grandvalira 2023 SL 1st run (8).jpg
Personal information
Born (2003-11-13) 13 November 2003 (age 21)
Sundsvall, Sweden [1]
Occupation Alpine skier
Skiing career
Disciplines Slalom, Super-G,
Downhill, Giant slalom
ClubSC Mahlstetten
World Cup debut13 November 2021 (age 18)
Olympics
Teams1 – (2022)
Medals1 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams2 – (2021, 2023)
Medals1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons3 – (2022-2024)
Podiums0
Overall titles0 – (71st in 2022)
Discipline titles0 – (28th in SL, 2022)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Beijing Team event
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Team event
World Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Panorama Downhill
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 PanoramaSlalom
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 PanoramaGiant Slalom

Emma Aicher (born 13 November 2003) is a Swedish born-German World Cup alpine ski racer [2] who also holds Swedish citizenship. [3] In the alpine World Cup, she competes in all disciplines.

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Her achievements include an Olympic silver medal and a bronze medal in the World Championships, both in team events.

Career

A daughter of a Swedish mother and a German father, [4] Aicher grew up in Sundsvall where she started skiing and joined the local Slalomklubb. Later, she moved with her parents to Engelberg (Switzerland) and then back to Sundsvall. [5]

In March 2019 she won the U16 Slalom of the FIS Children Cup, representing Sweden. [5] Later that year, she took part in her first FIS races. In 2020, she joined the German Ski Association, for the reason of "better training opportunities in the Alps". [3] Making her debut in the Europa Cup in December 2020, she took her first podium in slalom in January 2021. [6]

Three weeks later, Aicher represented Germany at the World Championships, where she won bronze medal in the team event. That November on her eighteenth birthday, she made her World Cup debut in a parallel giant slalom at Lech/Zürs, Austria.

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAge Overall  Slalom Giant
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillParallel
2022 18 71 28 19
2023 19 40 23 28 29
2024 20 48 35 39 28 27
2025 21 26 15 33 21
Standings through 1 January 2025

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombinedTeam
event
Parallel
2021 17 DNF2 3 19
2023 19 21 31 DNF 8

Olympic Games results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombinedTeam
event
2022 18 18 21 2

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References

  1. "Emma AICHER". Beijing 2022 Olympics . Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. "Emma AICHER". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 Nyheter, S. V. T. (6 February 2021). "Alpina talangen från Sundsvall tävlar för Tyskland och gör succé i Europacupen". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  4. Kein Weltcup-Rennen, aber WM-Bronze: Ski-Küken Aicher überrascht, dpa report via kicker.de (in German). 17 February 2021,. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. 1 2 Luana Bösch (2005) gewinnt sensationell den FIS Children Cup 2019 im Riesenslalom. Emma Aicher (2003) gewinnt Gold im Slalom. Archived 5 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine Skiclub Engelberg (in German). 17 March 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  6. Zell am See (AUT) European Cup – Women's Slalom January 25, 2021 FIS website. Retrieved 19 February 2021.