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All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
Sophie Hediger, who competed for Switzerland in the 2022 Winter Olympics, died on Monday in an avalanche while snowboarding in the Swiss Alps, the country’s ski federation said. She was 26.
Sophie Anna Hediger (14 December 1998 – 23 December 2024) was a Swiss snowboarder. She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, in women's snowboard cross, and in the mixed team snowboard cross. [1] [2] [3]
The Swiss-Ski federation said Hediger's death has "cast a dark shadow over the Christmas holidays"
The 26-year-old snowboarder died after being buried in an avalanche on a closed black diamond slope in eastern Switzerland. Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in avalanche.
Soutter died by suicide, near her French home on her 18th birthday, on 25 July 2018. [11] [2] [12] [13]A few days later, her father Tony said he thought her "history of mental health issues", combined with the pressure of high-level performance expectations, contributed to her death, and called on sports authorities to provide better support for young athletes.
Snowboarder Sophie Hediger, a 26-year-old from Switzerland who’d competed in the Olympics, was killed in an avalanche that crashed down a slope in the Swiss resort town of Arosa.
He operated in the "Ecrins Snowboard" club of Puy-Saint-Vincent in 2005. He participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turino and at the X Games in 2007. On 13 March 2008 he won the crystal globe in snowboarding by finishing second in the final round of the 2007–08 FIS Snowboard World Cup World Cup at Chiesa in Valmalenco . [ 4 ]