Mateja Svet

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Women's Alpine Skiing
Olympic medal record
Competitor for Yugoslavia
Silver	1988 Calgary	Giant slalom
World Championships
Gold	1989 Vail	Slalom
Silver	1987 Crans-Montana	Giant slalom
Bronze	1987 Crans-Montana	Slalom
Bronze	1987 Crans-Montana	Super-G
Bronze	1989 Vail	Giant slalom

Mateja Svet (born August 16, 1968) is a Slovenian former alpine skier. Debuting in 1983/1984 season, she won the first Slovenian and Yugoslav female skiing victory in 1986. She was born in in Ljubljana.

Svet won the World Cup giant slalom title in the 1987/1988 season, won silver medal in giant slalom in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, won three medals in 1987 World Championship in Crans-Montana (bronze in slalom and super G, silver in giant slalom) and two medals in 1989 World Championship in Vail - gold in slalom, later when the bronze Christelle Guignard was disqualified due to doping, also bronze in giant slalom. In her rather short career -- she quit by the age of 22 -- she got seven World cup victories, 22 World Cup podiums and 54 World Cup top tens. From 1985 till 1990 she qualified no lower than 7th in the overall World Cup standings.

[edit] World Cup victories

Date	Location	Race
February 8, 1986	Jasná	Giant slalom
March 22, 1986	Bromont	Giant slalom
January 30, 1988	Kranjska Gora	Giant slalom
January 31, 1988	Kranjska Gora	Slalom
March 3, 1988	Saalbach	Giant slalom
January 20, 1990	Maribor	Giant slalom
February 5, 1990	Veysonnaz	Giant slalom