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Joana Hählen

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Joana Hählen
January 2017
Personal information
Born (1992-01-23) 23 January 1992 (age 32)
Belp, Bern, Switzerland
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, Super-G
ClubLenk I.S.
World Cup debut29 November 2013 (age 21)
Websitejoanahaehlen.ch
Olympics
Teams1 – (2022)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams3 – (2017, 2019, 2023)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons10 – (2014, 20162024)
Wins0
Podiums5 – (3 DH, 2 SG)
Overall titles0 – (21st in 2020)
Discipline titles0 – (13th in SG, 2019–20)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Switzerland
Junior World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2012 Roccaraso Super-G
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Crans-Montana Combined

Joana Hählen (born 23 January 1992) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer,[1] specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.

Born in Belp in the canton of Bern, Hählen made her World Cup debut in November 2013, gained her first podium in February 2019,[2] and has competed in two World Championships.

Biography

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Joana Hählen believed she would reach her first World Cup podium when she finished second in the Crans Montana downhill on February 23, 2019, 49/100ths of a second behind Sofia Goggia, but due to several timing errors during the race, she was finally placed fourth a few days later.[3] In the following season, on January 24, 2020, she finally got her first podium, finishing third in the first run in Bansko behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Federica Brignone. A week later she achieved a second podium, her last to date, at the super-G in Rosa Khutor.[4]

During the Garmisch downhill in January 2022, she achieved intermediate times that allowed her to think she would join her compatriots Corinne Suter and Jasmine Flury on the podium, but she made an incomprehensible mistake in the last meters of the course and only finished in 8th place.[5]

She was part of the Swiss team that went to Beijing for the Olympic Games, but had to go through internal selections on site to obtain the right to compete for the first time in an Olympic event. She was not selected for the super-G but, by achieving the best time in the last training session, she won her place for the downhill, which she finished in 6th place.[6]

World Cup results

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Season standings

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Season Age  Overall   Slalom  Giant
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
2014 22 97 38
2015 23 out for season
2016 24 68 33 28 49
2017 25 62 23 38 36
2018 26 39 14 33
2019 27 34 13 16
2020 28 21 13 14 14
2021 29 48 21 26
2022 30 24 18 13
2023 31 24 13 13
2024 32 27 13 9
Standings through 14 February 2024

Race podiums

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  • 0 wins
  • 5 podiums – (3 DH, 2 SG); 26 top tens
Season Date Location Discipline Place
2020 24 Jan 2020 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria Downhill 3rd
2 Feb 2020 Russia Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G 3rd
2022 16 Mar 2022 France Courchevel, France Downhill 2nd
2023 14 Jan 2023 Austria St. Anton, Austria Super-G 2nd
2024 16 Dec 2023 France Val-d'Isère, France Downhill 2nd

World Championship results

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  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
2017 25 13
2019 27 16 DNS2
2023 31 13 17

Olympic results

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  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
2022 30 6

References

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  1. ^ "Profile". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Goggia wins World Cup downhill marred by faulty race timing". ESPN. Associated Press. 23 February 2019.
  3. ^ Tachet, Johan (26 February 2019). "Nouveau rebondissement chronométrique à Crans-Montana". SkiActu.ch (in French). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  4. ^ Tachet, Johan (24 January 2020). "Joana Hählen tient enfin sa revanche". SkiActu.ch (in French). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  5. ^ Waley-Cohen, Joanna, "Chapitre premier. Le cosmopolitisme en Chine avant les Temps modernes", Les sextants de Pékin, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, pp. 17–64, retrieved 22 October 2022
  6. ^ Tachet, Johan (14 February 2022). "Le dernier ticket de la descente pour Joana Hählen". SkiActu.ch (in French). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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