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Anna Schaffelhuber

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Anna Schaffelhuber is one of Germany's most successful Para alpine skiers after winning two golds and one silver in the women’s sitting events at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

She could not repeat her staggering performance from Sochi 2014, when she swept all five events, but still left once again as one of the most decorated Paralympians.

In the 2017/2018, Schaffelhuber also ended top of the downhill and super-G World Cup rankings, as well as finishing third in the overall standings.

The previous season had also been highly successful for her as she sealed gold in the slalom, super-combined and downhill at the 2017 World Championships. Her rivalry with Claudia Loesch was once again in the headlines with the Austrian collecting wins in the remaining events.

The 2015 World Championships was the competition where Schaffelhuber’s rivalry with Loesch really came to the fore. While Schaffelhuber was expected to reign supreme after her stunning performance in Sochi, she was beaten to the top of the podium twice by Loesch.

The German has been cruising down the slopes in a sit ski since age five, and in 2007 she made the national team for the first time.

Schaffelhuber made her Paralympic debut at Vancouver 2010, winning bronze in the super-G.

She was the world’s top ranked sit-skier in 2012-13, winning a gold medal in slalom at the 2013 World Championships. She also was the first female sit-skier to cross the line in the first downhill race at the World Cup Finals in Sochi, on the same course that was used for the Paralympic Winter Games.

She dominated the women's sitting class again on the 2013-14 World Cup circuit, hauling in the most victories of any competitor and winning the overall women's sitting trophy.

Results

Unit Date Rank
Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (Vancouver, Canada)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Super-G Sitting Final Round 3
Women's Super Combined Sitting Final Round 4
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Final Round 7
Women's Slalom Sitting Final Round 4
2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships (Sestriere, Italy)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Final 2011-01-16 4
Women's Super-G Sitting Final 2011-01-18 4
Women's Super-Combined Sitting Final 2011-01-19 1
Women's Slalom Sitting Final 2011-01-20 1
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Final 2011-01-21 1
Mixed Team Event VI/Sitting/Standing Final 2011-01-23 2
IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships (La Molina, Spain)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Race 1 2013-02-20 3
Women's Super-G Sitting Race 1 2013-02-21 2
Women's Slalom Sitting Race 1 2013-02-24 1
Women's Super-Combined Sitting Race 1 2013-02-25 3
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Race 1 2013-02-26 2
Paralympic Winter Games 2014 (Sochi, Russia)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Final Round 2014-03-08 1
Women's Super-G Sitting Final Round 2014-03-10 1
Women's Slalom Sitting Final Round 2014-03-12 1
Women's Super Combined Sitting Final Round 2014-03-14 1
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Final Round 2014-03-16 1
2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships Panorama (Panorama, Canada)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Race 1 2015-03-04 3
Women's Super-G Sitting Race 1 2015-03-05 1
Women's Super-Combined Sitting Race 1 2015-03-07 2
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Race 1 2015-03-08 1
Women's Slalom Sitting Race 1 2015-03-10 2
2017 IPC Alpine skiing World Championships Tarvisio, ITA (Tarvisio, Italy)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Race 1 2017-01-25 1
Women's Super-G Sitting Race 1 2017-01-26 2
Women's Super-Combined Sitting Race 1 2017-01-28 1
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Race 1 2017-01-30 2
Women's Slalom Sitting Race 1 2017-01-31 1
Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games (Pyeongchang, South Korea)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Downhill Sitting Final 2018-03-10 1
Women's Super-G Sitting Final 2018-03-11 1
Women's Super Combined Sitting Final 2018-03-13 2
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Final 2018-03-14 5
Women's Slalom Sitting Final 2018-03-18 4
Kranjska Gora/Sella Nevea 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships (Kranjska Gora/Sella Nevea, Slovenia)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Giant Slalom Sitting Race 1 2019-01-22 2
Women's Slalom Sitting Race 1 2019-01-24 2
Women's Downhill Sitting Race 1 2019-01-30 1
Women's Super-G Sitting Race 1 (from SC) 2019-01-31 1
Women's Super-Combined Sitting Race 1 2019-01-31 2