Kathrin Zettel (born 5 August 1986) is an Austrian retired
World Cup
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alpine ski racer
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. She won many races and took a bronze medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In 2021 she was a partner in a company creating domestic size wind turbines in lower Austria.
Life
Zettel was born in 1986 in
Scheibbs
Scheibbs () is a town in Austria in the Scheibbs district of Lower Austria. In 1886, it became the first town in Austria to have street lighting powered by electricity.
Population
Mayors
*1950-1965: Anton Herok
*1965-1983: Alois Derfler
*1983 ...
,
Lower Austria
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, and from
Göstling, she competed primarily in the technical events of
Giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...
and
slalom. Zettel made her World Cup debut in March 2004 and won her first World Cup race in November 2006.
In January
2010
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, Zettel won both technical events at
Maribor
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, for her first victory in slalom.
At the
2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ...
in
Sochi, she was the bronze medalist in
slalom at
Rosa Khutor
The Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort ( rus, Ро́за Ху́тор, r=Roza Khutor, p=ˈrozə ˈxutər) is an alpine ski resort in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located at the Aibga Ridge of the Western Caucasus along the Roza Khutor plateau near Krasnay ...
, her first podium since October and just two days after her grandmother died.
After she retired in 2015 she went to live in
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
. She took a share in "Blue Power" a wind turbine company. The turbines are small (1.7 m diameter) and designed to be used by a home owner. Zettel handles the social media for the company.
World Cup results
Season standings
Race victories
*9 wins – (7
GS, 2
SL)
*50 podiums (21
GS, 24
SL, 5
SC)
World championships
Winter Olympics
References
External links
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Kathrin ZettelWorld Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
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Austrian Ski team– Kathrin Zettel – '
Atomic Skis– athletes – Kathrin Zettel
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1986 births
Living people
People from Scheibbs District
Austrian female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Sportspeople from Lower Austria
20th-century Austrian women
21st-century Austrian women