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Julia Dujmovits

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Julia Dujmovits is an Austrian snowboarder born on 12 June 1987 who specialises in the parallel giant slalom and parallel slalom. She won silver in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships and gold in the same discipline at the 2013 Winter Universiade. At the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 she became the first Austrian to win an Olympic gold medal in snowboarding. Her World Cup record stands at three wins and 21 podiums, all taken from results published by the International Ski Federation. As a girl she was present at the Kaprun funicular disaster of 11 November 2000, a fire that killed 155 people including friends and teammates, and she has said that a decision to take the gondola instead saved her family.

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Birth Year
1987 1
Gender
Female 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 2
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is an Austrian snowboarder
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1. Olympedia: Julia Dujmovits Olympedia athlete biography
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  • Biographical information
    Born 12 June 1987
  • Biographical information, gender
    Sex Female
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2. Julia Dujmovits (Wikipedia)
  • Lead: World Championships silver, Universiade gold and Olympic gold
    Dujmovits won silver in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. She won a gold in the same discipline at the 2013 Winter Universiade.
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    is an Austrian snowboarder
  • Competed In: 2014 Winter Olympics, Career
    At the Sochi Olympics in 2014, she became the first Austrian to win gold in snowboarding.
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