Martina Schild
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Born | Brienz, Switzerland | 26 October 1981||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martina Schild (born 26 October 1981, in Brienz) is a Swiss alpine skier competing in downhill and super-G.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won the silver medal in the women's downhill. She placed 6th in the women's super-G.[1]
She is the granddaughter of skier Hedy Schlunegger (1923–2003), who was the Olympic downhill champion of 1948.[2] Due to persistent back problems, Martina Schild announced her retirement from active ski racing before the start of the 2013/14 season.[3]
World Cup victories
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2 December 2007 | ![]() |
Super-G |
References
[edit]- ^ "Martina Schild". 2006 Winter Olympics profile. Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
- ^ "Skiing: Women downhillers show why they're a different breed". International Herald Tribune. 16 February 2006. Archived from the original on 22 November 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ Kux, Ernst (January 1965). "North Vietnam's doctrine". Survival. 7 (1): 10–12. doi:10.1080/00396336508440506. ISSN 0039-6338.
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- 1981 births
- Swiss female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- People from Brienz
- Living people
- Skiers from the canton of Bern
- 21st-century Swiss women
- Swiss alpine skiing biography stubs
- Swiss Winter Olympic medalist stubs