Mathilde Gerg (born October 19, 1975 in Lenggries

Lenggries

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, Upper Bavaria

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) is a German

Germany

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 former alpine skier

Alpine skiing

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She was Olympic Champion at on several medals at 1998 Winter Olympics

1998 Winter Olympics

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; at the World Championships she was bronze medallist in Combined and Super-G at Sestriere 1997, Bronze medallist in Super-G at St. Anton 2001, and gold medallist in Nation Team Event at Bormio in 2005.

In 1994 Gerg was Junior World Champion and in 1997 and 2001 she won the World Cup in her favourite discipline, Super-G.

Gerg retired from professional skiing, because of severe injuries, in November 2005.

Season titles

Season	Discipline
1997 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 31st World Cup season began in October 1996 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in March 1997 at the World Cup finals in Vail, Colorado, U.S.A. The overall winners were Luc Alphand of France and Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden....	Super-G
1998 1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 32nd World Cup season began in October 1997 in Tignes, France, and concluded in March 1998 at the World Cup Finals in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The overall winners were Hermann Maier of Austria and Katja Seizinger of Germany....	Combined
1999 1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 33rd World Cup season began in October 1998 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded at the World Cup finals at Sierra Nevada, Spain, in March 1999. The overall winners were Lasse Kjus of Norway and Alexandra Meissnitzer of Austria....	Combined
2002 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup began in October 2001 and ended in March 2002 at the World Cup finals held in Altenmarkt, Austria. The overall winners were Stephan Eberharter and Michaela Dorfmeister, both from Austria....	Super-G

Race victories

Date	Location	Race
February 5, 1994	Sierra Nevada	Super-G
December 20, 1997	Val-d'Isère	Combined
January 11, 1998	Bormio Bormio Bormio is a town and comune located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. It has a population of 4,200...	Slalom
January 31, 1998	Åre Åre Åre is a locality and one of the leading Scandinavian ski resorts situated in Åre Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,260 inhabitants in 2005. It is however, not the seat of the municipality, which is Järpen. 25% of the municipal industry is based on tourism, most notably the downhill...	Combined
December 18, 1998	Veysonnaz Veysonnaz Veysonnaz is a municipality in the district of Sion in the Swiss canton of Valais.-Geography:Veysonnaz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.5% is forested...	Downhill
December 20, 1998	Veysonnaz	Combined
January 2, 1999	Maribor Maribor Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....	Super-G
March 8, 2001	Åre	Downhill
December 15, 2001	Val/d-Isere	Super-G
January 11, 2002	Saalbach	Downhill
January 12, 2002	Saalbach	Downhill
January 25, 2002	Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...	Super-G
March 12, 2002	Saalbach	Downhill
November 29, 2002	Aspen Aspen, Colorado The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005...	Super-G
December 6, 2002	Lake Louise	Downhill
January 7, 2004	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
January 11, 2004	Veysonnaz	Super-G
December 4, 2004	Lake Louise	Downhill
December 21, 2004	St. Moritz St. Moritz St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...	Super-G

External Links

• Ski-DB.com - Results - Hilde Gerg