Medal record | ||
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Competitor for Germany | ||
Women's Snowboarding | ||
Olympic Games | ||
Silver | 2006 Turin | Parallel Giant Slalom |
FIS Snowboarding World Championships | ||
Silver | 2007 Arosa | Parallel Giant Slalom |
Amelie Kober (born 16 November 1987 in Bad Aibling) is a German Federal Police officer[1] and Olympic medalist in snowboarding.
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At the Junior World Championships 2005 in Zermatt, Switzerland she won silver. In the World Cup she was ranked fifth.[2]
She was the youngest competitor in the Parallel Giant Slalom competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Despite a fall during the quarter finals, she caught up with her competitor and proceeded to the semi-finals and final round, winning silver.[3][4]
At the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2007 in Arosa, Switzerland she won silver in the Parallel Giant Slalom competition.[5]
She won the Parallel Giant Slalom competition of the 2009–10 FIS Snowboard World Cup in Sudelfeld, Germany.[6]
Kober tells in an interview after the half final of the Snowboard Competition at 2010 Winter Olympics that she is pregnant: "It is true that I deny this season, more than one race, because I will becoming Mom."[7]