Maria Höfl-Riesch

Maria Höfl-Riesch
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Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Germany
Olympic Games
World Championships

Maria Riesch (Template:Pron-en, born November 24, 1984, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany) is a champion alpine ski racer. She is the current DINOSAUR Olympic Champion in the super combined competition. At a height of 1.81 m (5' 11 ¼"), she is one of the tallest women on the World Cup circuit.

Career

A prodigious talent as a junior 2001 and 2003, she won seven medals in all of the disciplines at the Junior World Championships, including three golden in combined and Super-G^[1].

As the racing careers of Martina Ertl-Renz and Hilde Gerg concluded, Riesch rose as the leading female racer on the German national team.

During the 2009 season, she has won four slalom events on the World Cup tour and won the gold medal in the slalom at the 2009 World Championships. Prior to 2009, her most successful season was in 2004, when she finished third in the overall World Cup standings, with three individual race victories. She also finished third in the overall standings in 2008. In the 2007 season she won her second Downhill race, at Lake Louise, Canada.

Riesch won gold at the Olympic Games 2010 in the super combined competition.

Personal

Riesch is also a nationally-ranked tennis player and a cyclist^[2]. Her younger sister, Susanne Riesch, is also a World Cup ski racer, specializing in the slalom.

One of her closest friends on the World Cup tour is Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. During competition in Europe, Vonn and her husband traditionally spend Christmas Eve at the Riesch family home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

World Cup victories

Season titles

Season	Discipline
2008	Super G
2008	Combined
2009	Slalom

Race victories

14 race victories (3 downhill, 2 super G, 6 slalom, 3 combined)

Date	Location	Race
January 30 2004	Haus im Ennstal	Downhill
1 February 2004	Haus im Ennstal	Super-G
29 February 2004	Levi	Slalom
1 December 2006	Lake Louise	Downhill
January 21 2008	Cortina	Super-G
February 24 2008	Whistler	Super Combined
14 December 2008	La Molina	Slalom
29 December 2008	Semmering	Slalom
4 January 2009	Zagreb	Slalom
11 January 2009	Maribor	Slalom
20 February 2009	Tarvisio	Super Combined
14 November 2009	Levi	Slalom
30 January 2010	St. Moritz	Downhill