Michelle Gisin (German pronunciation: ['miʃel gɪzɪn]; born 5 December 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and competes in all disciplines.[2][3][4] A two-time Olympic gold medalist, she won the Women's combined event in 2018 Winter Olympics, and Women's combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[5][6] Born in Samedan, Graubünden, Gisin is the younger sister of alpine ski racers Marc and Dominique Gisin.[7]
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| Born | 5 December 1993 Samedan, Graubünden, Switzerland[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Slalom, combined, Downhill, super-G, Giant slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 29 December 2012 (age 19) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (2014, 2018, 2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (2 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 5 – (2013–2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 2 (0 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 11 – (2013–2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 1 – (1 SL) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 21 – (9 SL, 4 DH, 3 GS, 3 SG, 2 AC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (3rd in 2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (2nd in AC, 2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editGisin has enjoyed success in the Swiss Junior National Championships, finishing third in the downhill in 2011, third in the super-G in 2012 and winning the super combined in 2012. She took a silver medal in the slalom at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in February 2013.[7] She competed for Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events.
She made a breakthrough at the senior level at a World Cup meeting in Val-d'Isère just before Christmas 2016: she took seventh place in her first World Cup start in downhill and took her first podium finish when she finished second in the combined.[8] Later that season at the World Championships in St. Moritz, Gisin took a silver medal in the combined, finishing behind teammate Wendy Holdener in a one-two finish for the Swiss on home snow.[9]
In December 2017, during her first visit to Lake Louise, Gisin took eighth place in the first of two downhills at the Canadian resort before taking her second World Cup podium in the second downhill the following day, finishing in third.[10][11] The following week she made a successful return to St. Moritz when she took her first top 10 finish in a super-G, benefiting from an improvement in weather conditions to again finish second as part of a Swiss one-two, this time finishing 0.1 seconds behind Jasmine Flury.[12] She went on to take the gold medal in the combined at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing third in the first run of downhill before holding off Mikaela Shiffrin and Holdener in the slalom leg to take the win, following in the footsteps of her sister, who won a gold medal in downhill in the 2014 Games.[13]
Gisin's preparation for the 2021/22 season proved very difficult as she was ill with Pfeiffer's glandular fever in the summer and fall and had to refrain almost completely from training during this time.[14] Despite this significant handicap, she was able to improve continuously throughout the winter and was already back on the podium at the end of December 2021 as the third-place finisher in the Courchevel giant slalom and the Lienz slalom. In January, two more third places were added in the downhill and super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom before repeating her Olympic victory in the combined. Two more third places in the World Cup were added in the slalom of Åre and the super-G of Courchevel.[15]
Personal life
editGisin has been in a relationship with Italian alpine skier Luca De Aliprandini since 2014.[8] They announced their engagement in June 2024.[16]
World Cup results
editSeason standings
edit| Season | ||||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| 2013 | 19 | 79 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | 82 | 31 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2015 | 21 | 45 | 18 | 38 | — | — | — | |
| 2016 | 22 | 44 | 14 | — | — | — | 21 | |
| 2017 | 23 | 27 | 16 | — | 41 | 28 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 24 | 7 | 13 | 50 | 4 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 25 | 16 | 14 | 37 | 24 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 24 | 8 | — |
| 2021 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | — | |
| 2023 | 29 | 13 | 18 | 28 | 9 | 19 | — | |
| 2024 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 21 |
Race podiums
edit| Season | ||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2017 | 16 December 2016 |  Val d'Isere, France
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Combined | 2nd |
| 2018 | 2 December 2017 |  Lake Louise, Canada
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Downhill | 3rd |
| 9 December 2017 |  St. Moritz, Switzerland |
Super-G | 2nd | |
| 4 March 2018 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland |
Combined | 2nd | |
| 2019 | 30 November 2018 | Lake Louise, Canada
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Downhill | 2nd |
| 1 December 2018 | Downhill | 3rd | ||
| 2020 | 29 December 2019 |  Lienz, Austria |
Slalom | 3rd |
| 11 January 2020 | Altenmarkt, Austria |
Downhill | 3rd | |
| 2021 | 22 November 2020 |  Levi, Finland |
Slalom | 2nd |
| 29 December 2020 | Semmering, Austria |
Slalom | 1st | |
| 3 January 2021 |  Zagreb, Croatia |
Slalom | 3rd | |
| 16 January 2021 |  Kranjska Gora, Slovenia |
Giant slalom | 3rd | |
| 17 January 2021 | Giant slalom | 2nd | ||
| 20 March 2021 | Lenzerheide, Switzerland |
Slalom | 3rd | |
| 2022 | 21 December 2021 | Courchevel, France |
Giant slalom | 3rd |
| 29 December 2021 | Lienz, Austria |
Slalom | 3rd | |
| 22 January 2022 |  Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
Super-G | 3rd | |
| 12 March 2022 |  Åre, Sweden |
Slalom | 3rd | |
| 17 March 2022 | Courchevel, France |
Super-G | 3rd | |
| 2024 | 29 December 2023 | Lienz, Austria |
Slalom | 3rd |
| 10 March 2024 | Åre, Sweden |
Slalom | 3rd |
World Championship results
edit| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Event | |
| 2013 | 19 | 26 | — | — | — | — | 9 |
| 2015 | 21 | DNF2 | 32 | — | — | — | 4 |
| 2017 | 23 | 21 | — | — | 8 | 2 | — |
| 2019 | 25 | Injured: did not compete | |||||
| 2021 | 27 | DNF1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | — |
| 2023 | 29 | DNS2 | 28 | 10 | — | 6 | — |
Olympic results
edit| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Event | |
| 2014 | 20 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | 16 | — | 9 | 8 | 1 | — |
| 2022 | 28 | 6 | 10 | 3 | — | 1 | — |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Eva Breitenstein, Sarah Meier: Murisier, Gisin und Janka über Unterwäsche und Yoga. In: Schweizer Illustrierte 8 February 2017, retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ FIS Biography
- ^ "Alpine Skiing – Winter Olympic Sport". International Olympic Committee. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Ski, Swiss. "Michelle Gisin | Ski alpin | Swiss Ski". Swiss-Ski (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Switzerland's Gisin collects women's Alpine combined gold". International Olympic Committee. 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: Gisin gold, Smith's F-bomb". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ a b Mastarciyan, Michael (10 September 2013). "Alpine Young Guns: Michelle Gisin". Federation Internationale de Ski. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ^ a b Meier, Sarah (1 January 2018). "Michelle Gisin und ihr Freund sprechen über ihre Liebe" [Michelle Gisin and her boyfriend talk about their love]. Schweizer Illustrierte (in German). Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ O'Connor, Philip (10 February 2017). Lawson, Hugh (ed.). "Swiss one-two in ladies combined, but Gut crashes out". Reuters. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Spencer, Donna (2 December 2017). "American Mikaela Shiffrin earns 1st World Cup downhill victory in Lake Louise". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "Michelle Gisin termine au 3e rang à Lake Louise" [Michelle Gisin finishes in 3rd place in Lake Louise]. 24 heures (Switzerland) (in French). 3 December 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Dunbar, Graham (9 December 2017). "Vonn treated for back injury after World Cup super-G". apnews.com. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Evans, Simon (22 February 2018). O'Brien, John (ed.). "Alpine Skiing: Sister's Sochi glory inspired Gisin to gold". Reuters. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "Live Sport und News". sport.ch. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ "Kombination Frauen - Doppelsieg: Überragende Gisin gewinnt vor Holdener". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 17 February 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ "Ski: Michelle Gisin hat sich mit Luca de Aliprandini verlobt". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 3 June 2024.
External links
edit- Michelle Gisin at FIS (alpine)
- Michelle Gisin at Olympics.com
- Michelle Gisin at Olympedia
- Michelle Gisin at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Michelle Gisin at the Swiss Olympic Association (in German)
- Michelle Gisin at the Swiss Ski Team (in German)
