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Kira Weidle-Winkelmann

German female alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ28771704 ↗
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Kira Weidle-Winkelmann (née Weidle; born 24 February 1996) is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G. Weidle-Winkelmann won the silver medal in the team combined at the 2026 Winter Olympics, skiing the downhill run with partner Emma Aicher skiing slalom. She made her World Cup debut in January 2016 and attained her first podium in November 2018. Weidle won the silver medal in the downhill at the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2026, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-02-24. The account is most persuasive where Kira, Weidle-Winkelmann and German can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kira Weidle-Winkelmann” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.