Sandra Cariboni (born 17 November 1963) is a Swiss former competitive

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

in ladies' singles. She is the 1983 Swiss national champion and finished 11th at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

Personal life

Sandra Cariboni was born on 17 November 1963 in

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, Switzerland. She is the daughter of a pair of architects, Dino and Rita Carboni, who also worked as a skating coach, and has a sister, Claudia. After she was diagnosed with Krupp syndrome as an infant, her family moved to

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. Cariboni studied to become a veterinarian before becoming a homeopath in

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. She and her partner, Hans Gerber, have a son, Zeno, born in 2009.

Career

Cariboni became the Swiss national junior champion at the age of 13. In 1982, she competed at her first major international event, the World Championships in

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, and finished 16th. She began the following season by placing seventh at the

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and 13th at the 1982 NHK Trophy before winning the Swiss senior national title. She finished 13th at the 1983 European Championships in

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and tenth at the 1983 World Championships in

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. Cariboni's most successful season was 1983–84. She placed sixth at the 1984 European Championships in

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, eleventh at the

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, and tenth at the 1984 World Championships in

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. In 1985, Cariboni dropped to eleventh at the

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and 17th at the World Championships in

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. After a long pause due to a knee injury, she lacked the motivation to return to competitive skating and decided to retire. She was a member of the Internationale Schlittschuh-Club in

. Cariboni worked for two years as a skating coach at the Suvretta House in

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Competitive highlights

References

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