OTTOSSON Anna (SWE) 18.05.1976 Froson 164cm/ 64kg Club: Östersund Frösö SLK SKI: Atomic BOOTS: Atomic BINDING: Atomic 2007 Retired Park City 99 GS Sierra Nevada 99 GS/2nd Soelden 03 GS Park City 03 GS St. Moritz 05 GS/8th Torino OWG06 GS / 3rd World Cup Ranking General 1997/92nd, 1998/35th, 1999/25th, 2000/20th, 2001/43rd, 2002/35th, 2003/18th, 2004/20th, 2005/34th, 2006/18th, 2007/15th. Special 1999 GS/5th, SL/42nd, 2000 GS/4th. 2001 SL/30th, GS/16th. 2002 GS/10th, SL/32nd. 2003 GS/12th, SG/33trd, SL/17th. 2004 SL/17th, GS/11th, 2005 SL/30th, GS/13th. 2006 GS/10th, SL/11th. 2007 GS/6th, SL/9th, SG/51st, KB/24th. World Championship 1999 Vail GS/10th, SL/16th. 2001 St.Anton GS/9th, SL/DNF. 2003 St.Moritz SL/5th, GS/25th, SG/17th. 2005 Bormio/S.Caterina. GS/12th, SL/DNF. 2007 Are. GS/7th, SL/16th. Olympic Games 1998 Nagano GS/7th, SL/10th. 2002 Salt Lake Cuty GS/9th, SL/13th. 2006 Torino. GS/3rd. World Cup - 1 w. (1 GS) 1. GS: Cortina 2000, 2. GS: Sierra Nevada 99, Tignes 00, Flachau 02, SL: Zwiesel 07, 3. GS: Are 98 4. GS: Park City 04, 5. GS: Semmering 99, Are 99-I+II, 00, Maribor 04, Ofterschwang 06-I, SL: Lenzerheide 07, 6. GS: Tignes 98, Cortina 98, Copper Mtn.00, Soelden 01, Park City 03, Are 04, Soelden 05, 06, Spindleruv Mlyn 06, Cortina 07, Lenzerheide 07, SL: Maribor 00, Madonna 04, 7. GS: Soelden 99, Bormio 03, SL: Lienz 04, Maribor 04, Levi 06-I, Ofterschwang 06, Are 06, 8. GS: Val d'Isere 99, St.Moritz 05, Maribor 05, Ofterschwang 06-II, Aspen 07, K: Hafjell 06(SC) 9. GS: Crans Montana 98, Val d'Isere 99, SL: Berchtesgaden 00, Park City 01, 04, Lienz 06, 10. GS: Maribor 00, Lienz 00, Soelden 02, Lienz 02, Val d'Isere 03, Lienz 06, Semmering 07, SL: Are 03, Lillehammer 03, SC: Reiteralm 07, 11. GS: Cortina 99, Sta.Caterina 00, Cortina 01, Val d'Isere 02, Kranjska Gora 07, Zwiesel 07, SL: Levi 04, Semmering 07, 12. GS: Cortina 02, Soelden 04, Arber 04, Hafjell 06, Sierra Nevada 07, SL: Aspen 03, 13. GS: Val d'Isere 00, Semmering 01, Soelden 03, Are 03, SL: Are 98, 02, Sierra Nevada 07, 14. GS: Sestriere 00, Bormio 00, 15. GS: Bormio 98, Lillehammer 03, Lienz 04, Sestriere 04, SL: Sestriere 00, Bormio 03, Maribor 03, Spindleruv Mlin 06, Levi 06-II, It's almost with a full second that Anna Ottosson won her very first World Cup race on the very demanding GS course at Cortina d'Ampezzo, where she dominated both runs. Since she came 3rd at Are in January 1998, the skier from Froesoen who enjoys difficult conditions was expected to demonstrate her potential in that events. After a good season start at Tignes, were she was 2nd as in Sierra Nevada during the 1999 World Cup Finals, she was 6th at Copper Mountain despite the flat course yet she skied out at Serre Chevalier later on. She lost part of her confidence and her momentum in this crash and had to wait mid January to find back all her aggressiveness on course. Yet she could not retain that form afterwards and had to be content with her 4th place in the finals GS standings, a ranking which can't really satisfy this ambitious, smart and determined competitor. Her trainers like to compare her to the great Ingemar Stenmark, because she is as passionate, even obsessed, by perfection and ski racing as the best gate skier in the history of the Alpine World Cup. At Cortina, she became Sweden's third giant slalom winner in women's World Cup history - its first since Pernilla Wiberg's last success in that event back in 1992. Her serviceman Charlie Laband too was happy that day after having fought hard to convince her to use a new model of racing skis produced by Dynastar after Joel Chenal's triumph at Alta Badia. Anna has a reputation of being pretty stubborn and it's not easy to have her changing her mind. But it should also help her to reach more summits in future medals races. She was 7th and 10th at Nagano and Vail in 1998 and 1999. Biorama Basel