DOMINIQUE GISIN

Dominique Gisin was one of the world's top alpine ski racers from 2007 to 2015. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she became Olympic champion in the supreme discipline of downhill skiing at the same time as Tina Maze from Slovenia.

This very special and highly emotional victory has deeply touched and inspired many people around the world, because Dominique achieved it after overcoming an almost unprecedented history of injuries (including 9 knee operations), coupled with many setbacks. Dominique Gisin won several World Cup races in the downhill and super-G disciplines and took further podium places in the same disciplines. She was among the top 15 in the world in four of the five Alpine skiing disciplines.

Dominique Gisin was born into a sports-loving family in 1985. Her two younger siblings (Michelle and Marc) have also been skiing successfully in the Alpine World Cup for many years. Dominique graduated from the sports school in Engelberg in 2004 and, as a passionate pilot, holds a professional pilot's license.

She has been studying physics at ETH Zurich since 2015 and obtained a Master's degree in physics in February 2022. In February '23, she became the mother of a wonderful daughter.

Dominique Gisin calls the Swiss mountains her home. Her mother tongue is German, but she also speaks English, French, a little Italian and Romansh.