Claudia Lösch (born 19 October 1988) is a successful

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and alpine

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er. She won gold medals in the slalom and super slalom at the

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in Vancouver. She also won a silver medal at the Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's super-G.

Life

Lösch was born in 1988 in Vienna and at early age she was left

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in 1994. Losch was brought up in Neupölla and graduated from her school in

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in 2007 before studying

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.Claudia Lösch
geschichte.landesmuseum.net, retrieved 26 January 2014 Losch took up alpine sports where she has been successful in the "women sitting" events. She has won five medals at Paralympics including two gold medals. She has also completed successfully at the world championships. Losch competed in the World Cup in Canada.

Honours

In 2014, she was awarded the 2014 Disabled Athletes of the Year award in Vienna, Austria.

Results

* European Cup overall victories in 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06. * Overall World Cup victories in 2008/09 and 2009/10 * Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2009

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: silver in giant slalom and super combined, * Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2011

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, (Italy): Bronze in Downhill and Super-G, Silver in the super combined, Silver in slalom and giant slalom *

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(Italy): bronze in the downhill, *

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(Canada): gold in super-G and slalom, silver in the Super Combine. *

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(Russia): silver in super-G and giant slalom

References

External links

Lösch at 2010 Paralympics
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