Resi Stiegler

Resi Stiegler
— Alpine skier —

Stiegler in December 2006
Disciplines Slalom, Giant slalom,
Combined
Club Jackson Hole SSC
Born November 14, 1985
Jackson, Wyoming, U.S.
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
World Cup debut December 22, 2002
(age 17)
Website resi-stiegler.com
Olympics
Teams 2 – (2006, 2014)
Medals 0
World Championships
Teams 7 – (2003–15)
Medals 0
World Cup
Seasons 11th – (2003–08, '11–15)
Wins 0
Podiums 1 – (1 SL)
Overall titles 0 – (25th in 2007)
Discipline titles 0 – (5th in K, 2007)

Resi Stiegler (/reɪˈziː/[1] (born November 14, 1985) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She primarily races in the technical events and specializes in slalom.

Born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming, Stiegler is the daughter of Olympic champion Josef "Pepi" Stiegler of Austria. She began skiing at age two and racing at six at Jackson Hole. Junior Olympic and Nor-Am success while still a teenager led to a berth on the U.S. Ski Team; she made her World Cup debut in December 2002 at a slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, where she finished a remarkable 11th. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in France, she won bronze medals in slalom and combined, to which she added a 10th-place finish in combined at the "grown-up" World Championships that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Through early March 2014, Stiegler has 18 World Cup top-ten finishes, with one podium. Stiegler finished sixth in combined at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina Valfurva, Italy. She made her Olympic debut at the 2006 Torino games, placing 11th in the combined and 12th in the slalom.

Stiegler's trademark is the tiger ears she usually wears atop her helmet. She won a well-publicized battle with the International Olympic Committee, allowing her to compete with the ears at the Torino Olympics.

After a series of injuries, Stiegler made her first World Cup podium in March 2012, a runner-up finish at a slalom in Ofterschwang, Germany.[2][3] It was her first top ten finish in over four years. In a November, 2012 interview, Stiegler had recovered on schedule and was set to compete in the 2012–2013 season as planned.

World Cup top tens

Season Date Location Discipline Place
2004 8 Feb 2004 Zwiesel, Germany Slalom8th
2005 29 Dec 2004 Semmering, Austria Slalom8th
20 Jan 2005 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom10th
27 Feb 2005 San Sicario, Italy Super Combined8th
2006 5 Jan 2006 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom10th
10 Mar 2006 Levi, Finland Slalom 9th
17 Mar 2006 Åre, Sweden Slalom 4th
2007 11 Nov 2006 Levi, Finland Slalom10th
21 Dec 2006 Val-d'Isère, France Slalom 6th
4 Jan 2007 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 5th
14 Jan 2007 Altenmarkt, Austria Super Combined 4th
24 Feb 2007 Sierra Nevada, Spain Giant Slalom 10th
2 Mar 2007 Tarvisio, Italy Super Combined 5th
2008 10 Nov 2007 Reiteralm, Austria Slalom4th
25 Nov 2007 Panorama, Canada Slalom 9th
9 Dec 2007 Aspen, USA Slalom 8th
2012 4 Mar 2012 Ofterschwang, Germany Slalom 2nd
2013 4 Jan 2013 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 9th

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 Slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2003 17 19 — — — 10
2005 19 6 — — — 21
2007 21 8 — — — DNF2
2009 23 19 — — — —
2011 25 19 — — — —
2013 27 22 — — — —
2015 29 DNS2 — — — —

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 Slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2006 20 12 — — — 11
2010 24 — — — — —
2014 28 DNF2 29 — — —

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Ski Team – Resi Stiegler – accessed 2012-03-04
  2. ↑ Williams, Eric (March 4, 2012). "Canadian Mielzynski wins first World Cup in Ofterschwang slalom, Stiegler second". Ski Racing. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ U.S. Ski Team – Heroic World Cup Podium for Stiegler – 2012-03-04

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