Swiss · Schwyz, Switzerland · Born 28 September 1994Swiss speed specialist and 2022 Olympic downhill champion, who ended a 32-year wait for a Swiss women's World Championship downhill title the year before.
Corinne Silvia Suter was born on 28 September 1994 in Schwyz, central Switzerland, and began skiing at age four, progressing through the Skiclub Schwyz and the National Performance Centre in Engelberg before making her World Cup debut in November 2011 at just 17. Her early career developed steadily, with a first podium arriving in January 2016 in the Zauchensee downhill. Suter's breakthrough season came in 2019-20, when she won four downhill races - including a double at Lake Louise - to claim the season's downhill crystal globe, the first Swiss woman to do so since Maria Walliser in 1986-87, while also adding a super-G victory. She backed this up at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, winning downhill gold by two-tenths of a second over Germany's Kira Weidle to end a 32-year wait for a Swiss women's downhill world title, having taken silver in the event at the 2019 Championships. Suter's career peak came at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, where she won gold in the downhill by 0.16 seconds over Italy's Sofia Goggia - Switzerland's fourth alpine gold of those Games. She added World Championship bronze in the downhill at the 2023 Championships and has continued competing at the top level through injuries including a 2023 concussion and a 2024 knee injury, returning to win a World Cup downhill race at Soldeu, Andorra in February 2026, shortly after the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Winning Olympic downhill gold at Beijing 2022 and ending Switzerland's 32-year wait for a women's World Championship downhill title
How They Played
Aggressive downhill and super-G specialist known for excellent gliding ability on flat sections and calm composure at maximum speed
Lasting Impact
Regarded as one of Switzerland's finest modern speed skiers, whose consistency and resilience through repeated injuries kept her among the world's best downhill racers for over a decade
Career Honours
- 2022 Olympic Gold Medalist, Downhill
- 2021 World Champion, Downhill (first Swiss woman since 1989)
- 2019-20 World Cup Downhill and Super-G Discipline Champion
- 2019 World Championship Silver (Downhill) and Bronze (Super-G)
Swiss Athletes