Sabrina Simader
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| Personal information | |||||||||
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| Full name | Sabrina Wanjiku Simader | ||||||||
| Born | 13 April 1998 Kilifi, Kenya | ||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier ♀ | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||
| Disciplines | Downhill, giant slalom, super-G | ||||||||
| World Cup debut | 7 January 2017 (age 18) | ||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||
| Teams | 1 – (2018) | ||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (2017–2021) | ||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||
| Seasons | 4 – (2017–2020) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Sabrina Wanjiku Simader (born 13 April 1998[1]) is a Kenyan alpine skier.
Simader was born in Kilifi, Kenya and moved to Austria when she was three years old with her Kenyan mother and Austrian step-father.[2][3] Her step-father owned a ski lift and trained Simader in skiing during her childhood.[4] She grew up in Sankt Johann am Wimberg and later the family moved to Haus im Ennstal from where Simader would go to Schihauptschule Schladming, one of the few secondary schools focussed on skiing in Austria.[5][6]
Career
2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Simader represented Kenya at the Winter Youth Olympics in 2016 in Lillehammer, Norway.[7]
2018 Winter Olympics
Simader competed for Kenya at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. Simader became the first female and alpine skier to compete for Kenya at the Winter Olympics.[8][9]
World Cup results
Results per discipline
| Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Location | Place | ||||||
| Slalom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Giant slalom | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 February 2020 |  Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | 45th |
| Super-G | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 January 2022 |  Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | 33rd |
| Downhill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 January 2024 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | 39th |
| Combined | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 February 2020 |  Crans-Montana, Switzerland | DNS2 |
| Total | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
- Standings through 8 February 2025
