Lucas Braathen
| Alpine skier | |
 Lucas Braathen in 2019 | |
| Disciplines | Slalom, Giant Slalom |
|---|---|
| Club | Bærums Skiklub |
| Full name | Lucas Pinheiro Braathen |
| Born | 19 April 2000 Oslo, Norway |
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| World Cup debut | 8 December 2018 (age 18) |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 0 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 0 |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 4 – (2019–2022) |
| Wins | 2 – (1 SL, 1 GS) |
| Podiums | 3 – (2 SL 1 GS) |
| Overall titles | 0 – (20th in 2019) |
| Discipline titles | 0 – (5th in PS, 2019) |
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (born 19 April 2000) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer from Hokksund. He represents the sports club Bærums SK.[1]
Lucas Braathen is the son of a Norwegian father and a Brazilian mother. His middle name 'Pinheiro' is Portuguese for pine tree, paying tribute to his mother and his Brazilian heritage.
Career[]
At the Junior World Championships in 2019, Braathen finished sixth and eleventh, followed by a silver medal in super-G, and a bronze medal in the combined event. He made his World Cup debut in December 2018 in Val d'Isere, and collected his first points (five) with a 26th-place finish.[1]
Braathen recorded his first victory (and podium) in October 2020 at the season opener, a giant slalom in Sölden. In 2022, he won his first slalom at the Lauberhorn race in Wengen, going from 29th place after the first run to first place after the second run, the largest jump to victory on record.[2]
World Cup results[]
Season standings[]
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 18 | 147 | — | 51 | — | — | — | N/A |
| 2020 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 9 | — | — | — | 5 |
| 2021 | 20 | 43 | — | 15 | — | — | — | 18 |
| 2022 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 14 | — | — | — | — |
- Standings through 23 January 2022
Race podiums[]
| Total | Slalom | Giant slalom | |
| Wins | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Podiums | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Season | ||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2021 | 18 October 2020 |  Sölden, Austria
|
Giant slalom | 1st |
| 2022 | 16 January 2022 |  Wengen, Switzerland
|
Slalom | 1st |
| 22 January 2022 | Kitzbühel, Austria
|
Slalom | 2nd |
References[]
External links[]
- Lucas Braathen at FIS (alpine)
- Lucas Braathen at Olympedia
- Lucas Braathen at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bærum
- Norwegian male alpine skiers
- Norwegian people of Brazilian descent
- Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic alpine skiers of Norway
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