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Tina Maze

by Marusa from Naklo

Tina Maze -Armani  (http://fashion.si/img/repository/2012/02/web_image ())
Tina Maze -Armani (http://fashion.si/img/repository/2012/02/web_image ())

My Slovenian hero is Tina Maze.

Tina Maze was born on May 2nd in year 1983 in Slovenj Gradec,Slovenia.Tina is a slovenian alpine skier. When she was 2 years old she started skiing,later she was training volleyball and football. Until the beginning of 2007-08 season she gathered 5 wins in the World Cup. On February 2nd she got a surprising victory in the Swiss' St.Mortiz. She did it with a very high start number 47 which is her highest number in this category. By the 2008-09 season she had already gathered seventeen podium for the winners and 8 wins,which overtook the most successful Slovenian skier Mateja Svet. In 22nd January 2005 and 10th January 2009 she won the Golden Fox in the giant slalom World Cup in Maribor and in February 19th she got a silver medal in the Alpine Ski Championships in Val d'Isere.  Then, March 14th 2009 she won the World Cup in Areju,Sweden.She finished the 2009-10 season with fourth place. She finished slalom with sixth place in the world rankings and set a record as the best skier that has ever progressed so fast in just one season in any discipline.She dissapointed a bit when she got the 13th spot on the Golden Fox in Maribor but the next day for the first time in her career ranked on the podium, where she was 2nd. At the Olympic games in 2006 she was chosen the most beautiful participant. And in 2011 she went to Milano to model for Georgio Armani Model which I think this is also a great achievement

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