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Anna Schaffelhuber

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Anna Schaffelhuber
Personal information
Full nameAnna Katharina Schaffelhuber
NationalityGerman
Born (1993-01-26) 26 January 1993 (age 31)
Regensburg, Germany
Height1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Sport
SportPara-alpine skiing
ClubTSV Bayerbach
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 7 1 1
World Championships 9 7 3
Total 16 8 4
Women's Alpine skiing
Representing  Germany
Winter Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Downhill
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Super-G
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Slalom
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Combined
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Giant slalom
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Downhill
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Super-G
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang Super combined
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Vancouver Super-G
IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Sestriere Super combined
Gold medal – first place 2011 Sestriere Slalom
Gold medal – first place 2011 Sestriere Giant slalom
Gold medal – first place 2013 La Molina Slalom
Gold medal – first place 2015 Panorama Super-G
Gold medal – first place 2015 Panorama Giant slalom
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tarvisio Downhill
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tarvisio Slalom
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tarvisio Super combined
Silver medal – second place 2011 Sestriere Team event
Silver medal – second place 2013 La Molina Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2013 La Molina Super-G
Silver medal – second place 2015 Panorama Slalom
Silver medal – second place 2015 Panorama Super combined
Silver medal – second place 2017 Tarvisio Giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2017 Tarvisio Super-G
Bronze medal – third place 2013 La Molina Downhill
Bronze medal – third place 2013 La Molina Super combined
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Panorama Downhill
Anna Schaffelhuber at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Champions
Anna Schaffelhuber

Anna Schaffelhuber (born January,26 1993 in Regensburg) is a skier athlete from Germany. She has a disability.[1] She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. She was the first skier to finish in the sitting women's Super Combined race, Slalom race and Giant Slalom race.[2]

Early life

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Schaffelhuber was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. She was born with an incomplete spinal cord, which caused paraplegia, so she uses a wheelchair.[3][4] She started monoskiing when she was five years old, and when she was fourteen, she got a scholarship to join a national junior skiing program.[5][6]

Career

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Schaffelhuber competes in para-alpine skiing in the LW10 classification. She uses a sitting mono-ski and outriggers.[6]

She was chosen for the German team at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. She competed in four events and won a bronze medal in the super-G, finishing in 1 minute and 38.25 seconds behind Claudia Lösch of Austria and Alana Nicholsfrom America.[7] She also finished fourth in the super combined and slalom events and seventh in the giant slalom.[6] She carried the German flag at the closing ceremony.[4]

At the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Sestriere, Italy, she won three gold medals in the sitting women’s super-combined, slalom, and giant slalom events, a silver medal in the team event, and came fourth in both the downhill and super-G events.[6][2]

At the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in La Molina, Spain, she won five medals: a gold in slalom, silver medals in giant slalom and super-G, and bronze medals in super combined and downhill.[8]

She competed in her second Paralympics at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. There, she won her first Paralympic gold medal in the sitting downhill race with a time of 1 minute 35.55 seconds.[8][9][10] She then won a second gold medal in the super-G race, finishing first with a time of 1 minute 29.11 seconds.[8][11][12]

In the slalom race, Schaffelhuber was first disqualified because her outriggers weren’t in the right position at the start of her first run. Her teammate Anna-Lena Forster was initially announced as the gold medal winner. However, after an appeal, Schaffelhuber was given back her gold medal, and Forster took silver.[13][14]

Schaffelhuber then won a fourth gold medal in the combined race, with Forster winning silver again.[8][15] She finished her Paralympics with a fifth gold medal by winning the giant slalom in a total time of 2 minutes 51.26 seconds. She became the second athlete to win all the alpine skiing events after Lauren Woolstencroft did it in 2010.[8][16][17][18][19][20][21]

For her incredible performance at the Games, Schaffelhuber was awarded Best Female at the Paralympic Sports Awards.[22]

Awards

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In November 2010, Schaffelhuber was voted Athlete of the Month by the International Paralympic Committee, winning 45% of the public vote.[23] In November 2011, she was named Germany's Disabled Athlete of the Year. In 2013, she was also chosen as the Female Disabled Athlete of the Year by the German National Paralympic Committee.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ "Anna Schaffelhuber (Ski Alpin)" (in German). sporthilfe. 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Historical Results". Germany: International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiiing. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Anna Schaffelhuber - Athlete of the Month November 2010". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Anna Schaffelhuber Alpine Skiing". Channel4. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Beate Schaffelhuber (10 March 2010). "Anna Schaffelhuber – mein Weg – meine Ziele". Konzepte für Barrierefreiheit. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "SCHAFFELHUBER Anna". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G sitting". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "SCHAFFELHUBER Anna". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "Andrea Eskau and Anna Schaffelhuber win gold for Germany in Sochi Paralympics". Deutsche Welle. 8 March 2014. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Paralympics: Germany's Schaffelhuber Wins Downhill Skiing Gold". RIA Novosti. 8 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Schaffelhuber wins second Paralympic gold". Deutsche Welle. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Skier Schaffelhuber Takes Gold for Germany in Sitting Super-G". The Moscow Times. RIA Novosti. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Kimberly Joines to take bronze in slalom, not silver". CBC Sports. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  14. ↑ "Germany's Forster Skis to Paralympic Slalom Gold". Ria Novosti. 12 March 2014. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Schaffelhuber awarded gold after successful slalom appeal". International Paralympic Committee. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  16. ↑ "Etherington wins historic silver". Channel4. 14 March 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  17. ↑ "Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games Alpine Skiing Women's Super Combined sitting". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  18. ↑ "Schaffelhuber Races to 4th Paralympic Gold in Super Combined". RIA Novosti. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  19. ↑ Hicks, Brandon (16 March 2014). "Kimberly Joines crashes out of Giant Slalom". CBC Sports. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  20. ↑ "Anna Schaffelhuber completes quest for five golds". International Paralympic Committee. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  21. ↑ "Sochi Paralympics: British pair miss out on skiing medals". BBC Sport. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  22. ↑ "2015 Paralympic Award winners announced". International Paralympic Committee. 14 November 2015.
  23. ↑ "Anna Schaffelhuber - Athlete of the Month November 2010". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 August 2014.


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