Claudia Lösch (born 19 October 1988) is a successful Austrian Paralympian and alpine monoskier. She won gold medals in the slalom and super slalom at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. She also won a silver medal at the Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's super-G.

Claudia Lösch
Personal information
NationalityAustrian
Born19 October 1988 (1988-10-19) (age 35)
Websiteclaudia-loesch.at
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Austria
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver Slalom sitting
Sitting
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver Super-G sitting
Sitting
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver Super Combined sitting
Sitting
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Super-G sitting
Sitting
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Giant slalom sitting
Sitting
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Turin Downhill sitting
Sitting
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Vancouver Women's downhill
Sitting
IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 La Molina Super-G
Sitting
Gold medal – first place 2013 La Molina Super combined
Sitting
Gold medal – first place 2013 La Molina Giant slalom
Sitting
Gold medal – first place 2015 Panorama Downhill
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Gold medal – first place 2015 Panorama Slalom
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Gold medal – first place 2015 Panorama Super combined
Sitting
Silver medal – second place 2015 Panorama Giant slalom
Sitting

Life edit

Lösch was born in 1988 in Vienna and at early age she was left paraplegic in 1994. Losch was brought up in Neupölla and graduated from her school in Horn in 2007 before studying political science in Innsbruck.[1]

Losch took up alpine sports where she has been successful in the "women sitting" events. She has won five medals at Paralympics including two gold medals. She has also completed successfully at the world championships. Losch competed in the World Cup in Canada.[2]

Results edit

  • European Cup overall victories in 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06.
  • Overall World Cup victories in 2008/09 and 2009/10
  • Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2009 South Korea: silver in giant slalom and super combined,
  • Alpine Ski Championships in disabled sports in 2011 Sestriere, (Italy): Bronze in Downhill and Super-G, Silver in the super combined, Silver in slalom and giant slalom[1]
  • 2006 Winter Paralympics Turin (Italy): bronze in the downhill,
  • 2010 Winter Paralympics Vancouver (Canada): gold in super-G and slalom, silver in the Super Combine.[1]
  • 2014 Winter Paralympics Sochi (Russia): silver in super-G and giant slalom

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Claudia Lösch, geschichte.landesmuseum.net, retrieved 26 January 2014
  2. ^ "Mono-skier Schaffelhuber in Canada class by itself". Idowa. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.

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