Swiss-Ski has announced that the 26-year-old SBX specialist is the girl who was hit by an avalanche yesterday in Arosa. She had finished in 9th place in the first CdM race of the season in Cervinia, had reached the podium twice at the beginning of 2024 and was banking everything on the home World Championships in Sankt Moritz next March.
Tuesday 24 December, 3.05pm
An immense disgrace for the Swiss national team and the world panorama of snowboard cross.
It's Sophie Hediger, the 26-year-old from Zurich who is among the main protagonists of the top circuit, the girl swept away and killed on Monday by an avalanche in the mountains of Arosa: the Swiss federation announced this this afternoon, mourning the passing of its athlete born in 1998 , which had started the CdM season just ten days ago with the opening in Cervinia, finishing in 9th place.
Sophie was emerging just in the last year, among the main rivals of Michela Moioli herself, if we think of the first two podiums achieved in the space of a few days at the beginning of 2024, between Gudauri and Sankt Moritz where she would have competed for the world championship medals the next March, in the home world championships.
“We are shocked and are thinking of Sophie's family, offering them our deepest condolences,” said the head of Swiss-Ski's sports management, Walter Reusser, recalling Hediger who, among other things, had participated in the Beijing Olympic Games 2022 and two World Championships, with the best placing in the last one in 2023 in Bakuriani (ninth).
