Marcus Sandell
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 23 September 1987 Espoo, Finland | ||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||
| Skiing career | |||
| Disciplines | Giant slalom | ||
| Club | GrIFK Alpine | ||
| World Cup debut |
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| Olympics | |||
| Teams | 2 (2010, 2014) | ||
| Medals | 0 | ||
| World Championships | |||
| Teams | 5 – (2007–2015) | ||
| Medals | 0 | ||
| World Cup | |||
| Seasons | 10th – (2007–09, 2011–17) | ||
| Wins | 0 | ||
| Podiums | 0 | ||
| Overall titles | 0 – (33rd in 2013) | ||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (8th in GS, 2013) | ||
Marcus Sandell (born 23 September 1987 in Espoo) is a Finnish alpine skier. He represented Finland at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.[1] He suffered serious injury on 28 September 2009 on the training session in nearby Pitztaler glacier, Austria. Due to the crash, his kidney had to be removed at the hospital in Innsbruck.[2] 5 months after his accident, Sandell competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and finished at the 19th place in Giant slalom first run. In the second run he skied out and didn't finish the competition.
World Cup results
[edit]Season standings
[edit]| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 19 | 120 | — | 36 | — | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | 59 | — | 16 | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | 78 | — | 24 | — | — | 46 |
| 2010 | 22 | injured: did not compete | |||||
| 2011 | 23 | 99 | — | 28 | — | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | 58 | — | 19 | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | 33 | — | 8 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | 56 | — | 21 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | 62 | — | 18 | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | 58 | — | 16 | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | 135 | — | 50 | — | — | — |
Results per discipline
[edit]| Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Location | Place | ||||||
| Slalom | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 November 2006 |  Levi, Finland |
33rd |
| Giant slalom | 73 | 55 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 24 February 2013 |  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
4th |
| Super-G | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 February 2008 |  Whistler, Canada |
48th |
| Downhill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Combined | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 February 2009 |  Sestriere, Italy |
27th |
| Parallel GS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 December 2015 | Alta Badia, Italy |
18th |
| Total | 99 | 57 | 27 | 3 | 0 | |||
- standings through 20 Jan 2019
World Championship results
[edit]| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | Team Event | |
| 2007 | 19 | DNFQ2 | DNF1 | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | DNF2 | 16 | — | — | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | DNF1 | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | — | 12 | 29 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results
[edit]| Year | ||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | |
| 2010 | 22 | — | DNF2 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | — | DNF1 | — | — | — |
References
[edit]- ^ "Marcus Sandell, Alpine skiing". Vancouver 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- ^ "Sandell reportedly has kidney removed". www.espn.com. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
External links
[edit]- Marcus Sandell at FIS (alpine)
- Marcus Sandell at Olympedia
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