Susanne Riesch in 2010
Susanne Riesch (born 8 December 1987,[1] in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, West Germany) is a former alpine ski racer. She is the sister of Maria Höfl-Riesch, overall World Cup Champion for season 2010/2011. She is also the niece of Wolfgang Zimmerer who was a bobsledder during the 1960s and 1970s and who with Peter Utzschneider, won gold for West Germany at the Two-man bobsleigh during the 1972 Winter Olympics.[2]
Riesch has won two podiums in the Alpine skiing world cup, both 3rd places in slalom during the 2009-2010 World Cup season (Åre, Sweden and Zagreb, Croatia).
In January 2015, ten months after her sister's retirement, Susanne Riesch announced that she was retiring due to struggling with injuries.[3]
References
- ↑ "FIS-Ski - biographie". www.fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 2005-03-08.
- ↑ Wolfgang Zimmerer. sports-reference.com
- ↑ "Susanne Riesch beendet ihre Karriere" [Susanne Riesch has ended her career]. WirtschaftsBlatt (in German). 6 January 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
External links
- Susanne Riesch at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Susanne Riesch at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Susanne Riesch at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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