Sanna Lüdi (born February 17, 1986) is a Swiss

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 ...

, specializing in

ski cross Ski cross is a skiing competition which incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle skiing with courses which include big-air jumps and high-banked turns. In spite of the fact that it is a timed racing event, it is often con ...

, and a former

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Career

Lüdi competed at the

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for Switzerland. She placed 35th in the qualifying round in

, and did not advance to the knockout rounds. As of April 2013, her only finish at the

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is 9th, in

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. Lüdi made her

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debut in January 2009. As of April 2013, she has two World Cup victories, the first coming at

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in 2011/12. Her best World Cup overall finish in ski cross is 4th, in 2011/12.

Anti-doping rule violation

In 2015 Lüdi was banned from sport for one year after three whereabout failures in 18 months.Skicrosserin Lüdi für ein Jahr gesperrt
20min.ch, 17 July 2015 She will be free to compete again from 14 January 2016.

World Cup podiums

References

1986 births Living people Olympic freestyle skiers for Switzerland Doping cases in freestyle skiing Swiss sportspeople in doping cases Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Swiss female freestyle skiers 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub