Swiss snowboarder Sophie Hediger died in an avalanche in a mountain resort in Switzerland on the age of 26.
Sophie Hediger, the Swiss snowboarder who competed within the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche in a mountain resort in Switzerland, the nation’s ski federation mentioned on Tuesday.
The accident occurred on Monday within the city of Arosa.
The 26-year-old athlete competed on the Beijing Games in girls’s snowboard cross and the blended staff model of the identical occasion.
Hediger achieved his first two World Cup podiums within the 2023-24 season. His finest outcome was second place in St. Moritz in January.
“We are shocked and our ideas exit to Sophie’s household, to whom we provide our deepest condolences,” Swiss-Ski CEO Walter Reusser mentioned in an announcement.
“(He misplaced his life) tragically, brutally and too quickly.”
