Sandra Schmitt (April 26, 1981 – November 11, 2000) was a German
freestyle skier
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and ...
. In 1998, she came 9th in the Women's Moguls contest at the
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events ...
in
Nagano.
She became the
Women's Dual Moguls World Champion in 1999. Schmitt died with her parents in the
Kaprun disaster
On 11 November 2000, a fire in the tunnel of Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, killed 155 people. The cause was traced to a faulty fan heater. Most of the victims were skiers on their way to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier. To da ...
on 11 November 2000.
References
External links
International Ski Federation profile
1981 births
2000 deaths
People from Groß-Gerau (district)
Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region)
Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
German female freestyle skiers
Railway accident deaths in Austria
Deaths from fire
20th-century German sportswomen
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