Kathrin Zettel is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer. She won many races and took a bronze medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In 2021 she was a partner in a company creating domestic size wind turbines in lower Austria.
Zettel in January 2009
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
A skier attacks a gate in GS
Olympian Lotte Smiseth Sejersted in a GS race
Top: giant slalom skis from 2006, bottom: slalom skis.