Maria Pietilä-Holmner
Maria Pietilä-Holmner in Sälen in April 2014
Personal information
Born (1986-07-25) 25 July 1986
Umeå, Sweden
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesSlalom, giant slalom
ClubUhsk Umeå SK
World Cup debut26 October 2002 (age 16)
Retired17 January 2018 (age 31)
Websitemariapietilaholmner
Olympics
Teams3 – (2006, 2010, 2014)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams6 – (2005–2017)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons13 – (2005–2017)
Wins3 – (2 SL, 1 CE)
Podiums10 – (7 SL, 1 GS, 2 CE)
Overall titles0 – (7th in 2014)
Discipline titles0 – (3rd in GS, 2014)
Medal record
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2007 ÅreGiant slalom
Silver medal – second place2013 SchladmingTeam event
Bronze medal – third place2011 GarmischSlalom
Bronze medal – third place2011 GarmischTeam event
Bronze medal – third place2015 Beaver CreekTeam event
Bronze medal – third place2017 St. MoritzTeam event
Junior World Ski Championships
Gold medal – first place2006 Mont-Sainte-AnneSlalom

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 Umeå, Pietilä-Holmner took up alpine skiing at the age of seven. She was also a keen footballer, playing as a forward for Mariehem's girls' teams until the age of 15, when she decided to focus on skiing. Pietilä-Holmner made her World Cup debut in Sölden at age 16 in October 2002.[1] She won a gold medal at the 2006 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships in the slalom.[2] Her first World Cup win came at a slalom in Aspen in November 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 World Championships, two as an individual and three in the team events. She was the silver medalist in giant slalom in 2007 at 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

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom		Super-GDownhillCombined
200417104—43———
200518633331———
200619241720———
200720261514———
200821291212———
200922137754——
2010231386———
20112411419——32
201225331429———
20132617727———
201427743———
20152815716———
2016291998———
201730652333———
201831did not compete; retired in the middle of season

Race podiums

  • 3 wins – (2 SL, 1 CE)
  • 10 podiums – (7 SL, 1 GS, 2 PSL)
Season Date Location Discipline Place
200915 November 2008Finland Levi, FinlandSlalom2nd
201128 November 2010United States Aspen, USASlalom1st
2 January 2011Germany Munich, GermanyCity event1st
201227 November 2011United States Aspen, USASlalom2nd
201422 December 2013France Val-d'Isère, FranceGiant slalom3rd
5 January 2014Italy Bormio, ItalySlalom2nd
14 January 2014Austria Flachau, AustriaSlalom3rd
8 March 2014Sweden Åre, SwedenSlalom2nd
201513 December 2014Slalom1st
201623 February 2016Sweden Stockholm, SwedenCity event3rd


World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2005181316———
200720112———
200922DNF18———
201124322———
201326618———
201528149———
2017301425———

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2006192110———
201023424———
201427DNF16———

Video

  • Zapiks – post-race interview in November 2011 – 2nd place, Aspen slalom

References

  1. 1 2 Frime, Monika (24 July 2006). "Maria Pietilä Holmner fyller 20 år" [Maria Pietilä Holmner turns 20 years old]. hd.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Familjelängtande "PH" ler mot karriärslutet" [Family-longing "PH" smiles at the end of her career]. sydsvenskan.se (in Swedish). 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Swedish skier wins World Cup slalom; Lindsey Vonn eighth". USA Today. Associated Press. 28 November 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Fall costly for Paerson". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 14 February 2007. p. D-11.
  6. ↑ "Sweden's Pietilä Holmner claims world ski bronze". The Local. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Lisa Edwinsso (17 January 2018). "Maria PH avslutar karriären" (in Swedish). Dagens nyheter. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "Maria PH slutar" (in Swedish). Sportbladet. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  9. ↑ Svensson, Ulrika (2 July 2012). "Couples rehab: Maria Pietilä-Holmner & Hans Olsson". International Ski Federation. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  10. ↑ 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.

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