Maria Pietilä Holmner
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Maria Helena Pietilä-Holmner (born 25 July 1986) is a retired Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer. She specialised in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.
Born in
2010.[3][4] She made a total of 207 World Cup starts, and took ten podiums, including three wins.[2]
Pietilä-Holmner took five medals in the
Åre, Sweden.[5] Four years later in 2011, she won 2 bronze medals at Garmish-Partenkirchen in the slalom[6] and the team event. At Schladming in 2013, she won a silver in the team event. She took her final Worlds medal at the 2017 Championships, where she was part of the Swedish squad which finished third in the team event.[2]
She made her debut at the
Winter Olympics in 2006, where she finished tenth in the giant slalom.[1] At the 2010 Winter Games, she finished fourth in the slalom, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics she was sixth in the giant slalom. She also won seven Swedish championship titles: five in slalom, one in giant slalom and one in combined.[2]
On 17 January 2018, she announced her retirement from alpine skiing, following back problems.[7] to instead become a Eurosport expert commentator.[8]
She has been in a relationship with fellow alpine skier Hans Olsson since 2004:[9] as of 2018 the couple were engaged.[2] They both worked as part of the team covering alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for Eurosport.[10]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2004 |
17 | 104 | — | 43 | — | — | — |
2005 |
18 | 63 | 33 | 31 | — | — | — |
2006 |
19 | 24 | 17 | 20 | — | — | — |
2007 |
20 | 26 | 15 | 14 | — | — | — |
2008 |
21 | 29 | 12 | 12 | — | — | — |
2009 |
22 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 54 | — | — |
2010 |
23 | 13 | 8 | 6 | — | — | — |
2011 |
24 | 11 | 4 | 19 | — | — | 32 |
2012 |
25 | 33 | 14 | 29 | — | — | — |
2013 |
26 | 17 | 7 | 27 | — | — | — |
2014 |
27 | 7 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
2015 |
28 | 15 | 7 | 16 | — | — | — |
2016 |
29 | 19 | 9 | 8 | — | — | — |
2017 |
30 | 65 | 23 | 33 | — | — | — |
2018 |
31 | did not compete; retired in the middle of season | |||||
Race podiums
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 |
15 November 2008 |  Levi, Finland |
Slalom | 2nd |
2011 |
28 November 2010 |  Aspen, USA |
Slalom | 1st |
| 2 January 2011 | Munich , Germany |
City event | 1st | |
2012 |
27 November 2011 | Aspen, USA |
Slalom | 2nd |
2014 |
22 December 2013 |  Val-d'Isère, France |
Giant slalom | 3rd |
| 5 January 2014 |  Bormio, Italy |
Slalom | 2nd | |
| 14 January 2014 |  Flachau, Austria |
Slalom | 3rd | |
| 8 March 2014 | Åre , Sweden |
Slalom | 2nd | |
2015 |
13 December 2014 | Slalom | 1st | |
2016 |
23 February 2016 |  Stockholm, Sweden |
City event | 3rd |
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 18 | 13 | 16 | — | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | 11 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | DNF1 | 8 | — | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | 3 | 22 | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | 6 | 18 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | 14 | 9 | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | 14 | 25 | — | — | —
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Olympic results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19 | 21 | 10 | — | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | 4 | 24 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | DNF1 | 6 | — | — | — |
Video
- Zapiks – post-race interview in November 2011 – 2nd place, Aspen slalom
References
- ^ hd.se(in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ sydsvenskan.se(in Swedish). 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Swedish skier wins World Cup slalom; Lindsey Vonn eighth". USA Today. Associated Press. 28 November 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ Piestrup, Zeke (28 November 2010). "Maria Pietila Holmner wins Aspen World Cup slalom, Maria Riesch second, Lindsey Vonn 8th". Ski Channel. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ "Fall costly for Paerson". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 14 February 2007. p. D-11.
- ^ "Sweden's Pietilä Holmner claims world ski bronze". The Local. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ Lisa Edwinsso (17 January 2018). "Maria PH avslutar karriären" (in Swedish). Dagens nyheter. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ "Maria PH slutar" (in Swedish). Sportbladet. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- International Ski Federation. Archived from the originalon 21 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Ruuth, Tomas. "Klart: Maria PH till OS – som tv-expert" [Clear: Maria PH to Olympic Games - as a TV expert]. Folkbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 February 2019.
External links
Media related to Maria Pietilä-Holmner at Wikimedia Commons
- Maria Pietilä Holmner at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Maria Pietilae-Holmner World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
- Maria Pietilä Holmner at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Maria Pietilä Holmner at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Swedish Olympic Committee – Maria Pietilä Holmner – (in Swedish)
- Rossignol.com – Maria Pietilä-Holmner – alpine skiing – Sweden
- Official website – (in Swedish)
