Nina Ortlieb

Nina Ortlieb
Nina Ortlieb in 2023
Personal information
Born (1996-04-02) 2 April 1996 (age 28)
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom
World Cup debut12 January 2014 (age 17)
Olympics
Teams0
World Championships
Teams1 – (2023)
Medals1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons8 − (2014, 20162021,
       2023)
Wins2 – (2 SG)
Podiums4 – (2 DH, 2 SG)
Overall titles0 – (12th in 2020)
Discipline titles0 – (6th in SG, 2020)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Austria
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 0 0
World Championships 0 1 0
Total 0 1 0
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Méribel Downhill
World Junior Ski Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Sochi Super-G
Gold medal – first place 2015 Hafjell Giant slalom

Nina Ortlieb (born 2 April 1996) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer,[1] and specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is the daughter of Patrick Ortlieb, the Olympic gold medalist in downhill in 1992 and world champion in 1996.[2]

Career

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Ortlieb attended the Stams ski high school and won a total of four Austrian student championship titles between 2009 and 2011. In December 2011, after reaching the age limit, she competed in her first FIS races and took part in a Alpine skiing Europa Cup race for the first time on 16 January 2013 at the downhill in St. Anton, where she was immediately classified among the top ten as seventh. At the end of February 2013, Ortlieb was part of the Austrian squad for the Junior World Championships in Quebec. After two retirements in slalom and super-G, she finished twelfth in the downhill. At the end of the season, she became Austrian Junior Champion in the downhill in April 2013.

For the 2013/14 season she was accepted into the C squad of the Austrian Ski Federation and has been competing regularly in the European Cup since this winter. On 18 December 2013, she achieved the first two podium finishes in this race series when she finished third in both downhill and super-G in St. Moritz. On 12 January 2014 she made her World Cup debut in the Super Combination in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, but retired in Super-G. On 6 February 2014, she tore her cruciate ligament during training and had to end the season early.

The following winter she was able to continue her old level of performance, achieved two more podium places in the European Cup and won the gold medal in giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in Hafjell on 7 March 2015. At the Junior World Championships in Sochi/Rosa Chutor in 2016 she won the title in Super-G. As junior world champion she was eligible to start at the world cup final in St. Moritz, where she scored her first world cup points as eleventh-placed in the super-G. In the 2016/17 World Cup season, on the other hand, she was never able to gain points, which is why she was increasingly used in the European Cup. In winter 2017/18 she won the overall European Cup ranking.

At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, Ortlieb finished fourth behind the Czech surprise winner Ester Ledecká at the World Cup downhill in Lake Louise in December 2019. After three further placings among the top ten over the course of the winter, she achieved her first World Cup podium finish on 22 February with third place in the downhill of Crans-Montana. A week later she won her first World Cup race in the super-G in La Thuile.

World Cup results

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Season standings

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Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined Parallel
2016 19 95 34
2018 21 100 51 41
2019 22 71 35 33 28
2020 23 12 6 8 9
2021 24 61 45 23
2023 26 23 20 5
Standings through 5 March 2023

Race podiums

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  • 2 wins (2 SG)
  • 4 podiums (2 DH, 2 SG), 12 top tens (8 DH, 4 SG)
Season Date Location Discipline Place
2020 22 Feb 2020  Switzerland  Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
29 Feb 2020 Italy La Thuile, Italy Super-G 1st
2023 3 Dec 2022 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
5 Mar 2023 NorwayKvitfjell, Norway Super-G 1st

World Championship results

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  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
2023 26 2

Europa Cup results

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Ortlieb has won an overall Europa Cup.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Nina Ortlieb". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Nina Ortlieb, 27 anni dopo papà Patrick: "Quando stai bene tutto diventa più semplice"". neveitalia.it (in Italian). 29 February 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  3. ^ "EUROPA CUP STANDINGS". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
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