Emma Aicher

Emma Aicher
Aicher in 2024
Personal information
Full nameEmma Mathilda Aicher
Born (2003-11-13) 13 November 2003 (age 22)
Sundsvall, Sweden[1]
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country Germany (since 2020)
 Sweden (until 2020)
Skiing career
DisciplinesSlalom, Super-G,
Downhill, Giant slalom
ClubSC Mahlstetten
World Cup debut13 November 2021 (age 18)
Olympics
Teams2 – (2022, 2026)
Medals3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams3 – (20212025)
Medals1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons5 – (20222026)
Wins5 - (2 DH, 3 SG)
Podiums10 – (3 DH, 4 SG, 3 SL)
Overall titles0 – (15th in 2025)
Discipline titles0 – (9th in DH, 2025)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Germany
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Slalom 0 0 3
Giant slalom 0 0 0
Super-G 3 1 0
Downhill 2 1 0
Total 5 2 3
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Team event
Silver medal – second place 2026 Milano Cortina Downhill
Silver medal – second place 2026 Milano Cortina Team combined
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Team event
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Panorama Downhill
Silver medal – second place 2022 Panorama Slalom
Silver medal – second place 2022 Panorama Giant Slalom
Silver medal – second place 2023 St. Anton Team combined

Emma Mathilda Aicher (born 13 November 2003) is a German-Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer.[2] She competes in all disciplines and represents Germany.

Aicher's achievements include three Olympic silver medals and a bronze medal in the World Championships. Her first World Cup podium came in a downhill in February 2025. One day later, she won her first race, also a downhill.

At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, Aicher won two silver medals; one in downhill and the other in team combined with Kira Weidle-Winkelmann, with Aicher skiing the slalom portion.[3]

Career

A daughter of a Swedish mother and a German father,[3] Aicher grew up in Sundsvall, Sweden, where she started skiing and joined the local ski club. Later, she moved with her parents to Engelberg, Switzerland, and then back to Sundsvall.[4] She holds both Swedish and German citizenship.[5]

In March 2019, Aicher won the U16 Slalom of the FIS Children Cup, representing Sweden.[4] Later that year, she took part in her first FIS races. In 2020, she joined the German Ski Association, for the reason of "better training opportunities in the Alps".[5] Making her debut in the Europa Cup in December 2020, she took her first podium in slalom in January 2021.[6]

Three weeks later, Aicher represented Germany at the World Championships, where she won bronze in the team event. That November on her eighteenth birthday, she made her World Cup debut in a parallel giant slalom at Lech/Zürs, Austria.

Without a top 30 result in World Cup downhill through January 2025, Aicher finished sixth in both downhill and super-G at the World Championships in early February. Three weeks later at a pair of downhill races in Kvitfjell, Norway, she gained her first World Cup podium and followed it up with a victory the next day.[7][8]

On 8 February 2026, Aicher won a silver medal in the downhill Alpine skiing event at the Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d'Ampezzo at the 2026 Winter Olympics with a time of 1:36.14.[9] Two days later, she achieved the top time of 44.38 in the slalom event of alpine combined at the same skiing center, securing another silver medal with teammate Kira Weidle-Winkelmann.[3]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Parallel
2022 18 71 28 19
2023 19 40 23 28 29 N/a
2024 20 48 35 39 28 27
2025 21 15 17 41 15 9
2026 22 3 8 28 3 2
Standings through 1 March 2026

Race podiums

  • 5 wins (2 DH, 3 SG)
  • 10 podiums (3 DH, 4 SG, 3 SL), 29 top tens
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
2025 28 Feb 2025 NorwayKvitfjell, Norway Downhill 2nd
1 Mar 2025 Downhill 1st
13 Mar 2025 Italy La Thuile, Italy Super-G 1st
2026 15 Nov 2025 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 3rd
13 Dec 2025  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 1st
16 Dec 2025 France Courchevel, France Slalom 3rd
18 Jan 2026 Italy Tarvisio, Italy Super-G 1st
25 Jan 2026 Czech Republic Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic Slalom 3rd
28 Feb 2026 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Super-G 1st
1 Mar 2026 Super-G 2nd

World Championship results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Team
combined
Parallel Team
 event 
2021 17 DNF2 N/a 19 3
2023 19 21 31 DNF 8
2025 21 DNF1 23 6 6 N/a 17 N/a

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined Team
combined
Team event
2022 18 18 21 N/a 2
2026 22 9 19 DNF 2 N/a 2 N/a

References

  1. ^ "Emma AICHER". Beijing 2022 Olympics. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Emma AICHER". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Women's Team Combined Slalom Results - Alpine Skiing | Milano Cortina 2026". Olympics. 10 February 2026. Retrieved 11 February 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b Luana Bösch (2005) gewinnt sensationell den FIS Children Cup 2019 im Riesenslalom. Emma Aicher (2003) gewinnt Gold im Slalom. Archived 5 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine Skiclub Engelberg (in German). 17 March 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b SVT Nyheter (6 February 2021). "Alpina talangen från Sundsvall tävlar för Tyskland och gör succé i Europacupen". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  6. ^ Zell am See (AUT) European Cup – Women's Slalom January 25, 2021 FIS website. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  7. ^ ZK Goh: Emma Aicher follows Friday podium with first World Cup win in Kvitfjell downhill; Lindsey Vonn 16th. olympics.com, 1 March 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  8. '^ It is unbelievable': Aicher wins Kvitfjell Downhill for first World Cup victory. fis-ski.com, 1 March 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  9. ^ Sullivan, Becky (8 February 2026). "Breezy Johnson's downhill gold is America's first medal of 2026 Winter Olympics". NPR. Retrieved 8 February 2026.