Wendy Holdener (born 12 May 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom and combined. She is a two-time World champion in combined and a five-time Olympic medalist, four individual with one gold medal in the team event at Pyeongchang in 2018. Four years later in 2022, she won a silver medal in the combined.
Career
Holdener made her World Cup debut in Sölden in October 2010, and attained her first podium in March 2013, a second place in slalom at Ofterschwang. In 2016, she gained her first two World Cup victories and won the crystal globe title in the combined discipline.
Holdener's first win in a World Cup slalom came in November 2022 at Killington, shared with Anna Swenn-Larsson, after thirty previous podiums in the discipline without a victory. Another win came two weeks later at Sestriere, Italy.
Holdener finished the season in seventh place overall in the 2023 season and second in Slalom.
In the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, she won silver medals in team event and combined. That was the inaugural race of the team combined, where Holdener skied the slalom part, and Lara Gut-Behrami the downhill part. This was Holdener's 4th medal in the combined in the last 5 championships, and 6th out of 7 if Olympics are counted.
World Cup results Season titles 2 titles – (2 combined) SeasonDiscipline 2016 Combined 2018 Combined
Season standings
SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedParallel 2011 17 89 38 — — 49 27 rowspan=9 2012 18 67 31 — — — 19 2013 19 20 6 42 — — 33 2014 20 29 10 35 — — 12 2015 21 22 8 46 52 — 7 2016 22 6 30 45 — 2017 23 8 22 53 — 2018 24 8 22 39 2019 25 7 22 48 3 2020 26 6 4 6 15 38 13 2021 27 10 5 22 27 — rowspan=9 20 2022 28 14 5 25 25 46 — 2023 29 7 17 24 — rowspan=7 2024 30 57 21 41 — — 2025 31 10 6 15 — — 2026 32 13 25 — —
Race podiums
5 wins – (2 SL, 1 PSL, 2 AC) 55 podiums – (41 SL, 5 PSL, 5 AC, 2 GS, 2 SG) Season Date Location Discipline Place201310 March 2013 Ofterschwang, Germany Slalom 2nd201529 December 2014 Kühtai, Austria Slalom 3rd201629 December 2015 Lienz, Austria Slalom 2nd23 February 2016 Stockholm, Sweden City event 1st28 February 2016 Soldeu, Andorra Combined 2nd6 March 2016 Jasná, Slovakia Slalom 2nd13 March 2016 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Combined 1st201712 November 2016 Levi, Finland Slalom 2nd27 November 2016 Killington, United States Slalom 3rd11 December 2016 Sestriere, Italy Slalom 3rd29 December 2016 Semmering, Austria Slalom 3rd8 January 2017 Maribor, Slovenia Slalom 2nd10 January 2017 Flachau, Austria Slalom 3rd201812 November 2017 Levi, Finland Slalom 3rd28 December 2017 Lienz, Austria Slalom 2nd1 January 2018 Oslo, Norway City event 2nd3 January 2018 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 2nd7 January 2018 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom 3rd26 January 2018 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Combined 1st28 January 2018 Slalom 3rd30 January 2018 Stockholm, Sweden City event 2nd3 March 2018 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Super-G 3rd10 March 2018 Ofterschwang, Germany Slalom 2nd17 March 2018 Åre, Sweden Slalom 2nd20199 December 2018 St. Moritz, Switzerland Parallel slalom 3rd29 December 2018 Semmering, Austria Slalom 3rd1 January 2019 Oslo, Norway City event 3rd5 January 2019 Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 3rd2 February 2019 Maribor, Slovenia Slalom 3rd24 February 2019 Crans-Montana, Switzerland Combined 3rd9 March 2019 Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic Slalom 2nd16 March 2019 Soldeu, Andorra Slalom 2nd202023 November 2019 Levi, Finland Slalom 2nd17 December 2019 Courchevel, France Giant slalom 3rd12 January 2020 Altenmarkt, Austria Combined 2nd9 February 2020 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 3rd15 February 2020 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd16 February 2020 Slalom 2nd202112 January 2021 Flachau, Austria Slalom 3rd6 March 2021 Jasná, Slovakia Slalom 3rd13 March 2021 Åre, Sweden Slalom 3rd202228 November 2021 Killington, United States Slalom 3rd9 January 2022 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom 2nd202320 November 2022 Levi, Finland Slalom 2nd27 November 2022 Killington, United States Slalom 1st11 December 2022 Sestriere, Italy Slalom 1st28 January 2023 Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic Slalom 3rd11 March 2023 Åre, Sweden Slalom 2nd202426 November 2023 Killington, United States Slalom 3rd20251 December 2024 Killington, United States Slalom 2nd5 January 2025 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom 2nd14 January 2025 Flachau, Austria Slalom 2nd20264 January 2026 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Slalom 3rd15 March 2026 Åre, Sweden Slalom 3rd24 March 2026 Hafjell, Norway Slalom 2nd
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedTeamcombinedParallelTeam event 2011 17 DNF2 29 — — — rowspan="7" rowspan="5" 5 2013 19 11 26 — — — 9 2015 21 DNF2 17 — — — 4 2017 23 2 — — — 1 4 2019 25 17 15 14 — 1 1 2021 27 4 8 — — DNF SL 7 4 2023 29 DNF2 18 — — 2 2 5 2025 312 25 — — 2 2
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombinedTeam event 2014 20 DNF1 DNF1 — — — rowspan=3 2018 24 2 9 — — 3 1 2022 28 3 9 — — 2 — 2026 32 4 DNS1 — — 6
References
External links
Wendy Holdener at Milano Cortina 2026 Wendy Holdener at the Swiss Olympic Association Wendy Holdener at Swiss Ski (archive)