Joana Hählen (born 23 January 1992) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Born in Belp in the canton of Bern, Hählen made her World Cup debut in November 2013, gained her first podium in February 2019, and has competed in two World Championships.
Biography Joana Hählen believed she would reach her first World Cup podium when she finished second in the Crans Montana downhill on 23 February 2019, 49/100ths of a second behind Sofia Goggia, but due to several timing errors during the race, she was finally placed fourth a few days later. In the following season, on 24 January 2020, she finally got her first podium, finishing third in the first run in Bansko behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Federica Brignone. A week later she achieved a second podium, her last to date, at the super-G in Rosa Khutor.
During the Garmisch downhill in January 2022, she achieved intermediate times that allowed her to think she would join her compatriots Corinne Suter and Jasmine Flury on the podium, but she made an incomprehensible mistake in the last meters of the course and only finished in 8th place.
She was part of the Swiss team that went to Beijing for the Olympic Games, but had to go through internal selections on site to obtain the right to compete for the first time in an Olympic event. She was not selected for the super-G but, by achieving the best time in the last training session, she won her place for the downhill, which she finished in 6th place.
Hählen retired from competitive racing following the 2025–26 World Cup season.
World Cup results Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombined 2014 22 97 — — — 38 — 2015 23 2016 24 68 — — 33 28 49 2017 25 62 — — 23 38 36 2018 26 39 — — 14 33 — 2019 27 34 — — 13 16 — 2020 28 21 — — 13 14 14 2021 29 48 — — 21 26 rowspan=6 2022 30 24 — — 18 13 2023 31 24 — — 13 13 2024 32 39 — — 21 20 2025 33 65 — — 23 42 2026 34 85 — — 29 44
Race podiums 0 wins 5 podiums – (3 DH, 2 SG); 27 top tens Season Date Location Discipline Place202024 January 2020 Bansko, Bulgaria Downhill 3rd2 February 2020 Rosa Khutor, Russia Super-G 3rd202216 March 2022 Courchevel, France Downhill 2nd202314 January 2023 St Anton, Austria Super-G 2nd202416 December 2023 Val-d'Isère, France Downhill 2nd
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombined 2017 25 — — 13 — — 2019 27 — —— 16 DNS2 2023 31 — —13 17 —
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombined 2022 30 — — — 6 —
References
External links
Joana Hählen at the Swiss Olympic Association