Sophie Hediger — a Swiss snowboarder who competed within the 2022 Beijing Video games — was tragically killed in an avalanche on Monday. She was simply 26 years previous.

Switzerland’s snowboarding federation introduced the heartbreaking information on Tuesday — revealing the incident occurred on the Arosa resort.

“We’re shocked,” Swiss-Ski CEO Walter Reusser stated in an announcement, “and our ideas are with Sophie’s household, to whom we categorical our deepest condolences.”

Hediger competed in a number of occasions on the 2022 Winter Olympics, together with the ladies’s snowboard cross.

In 2023-24, she completed on the rostrum twice in World Cup competitions.

Hediger had simply turned 26 years previous on Dec. 14.

“For the Swiss Ski household, the tragic dying of Sophie Hediger has solid a darkish shadow over the Christmas holidays,” Reusser stated. “We’re immeasurably unhappy. We are going to maintain an honorable reminiscence of Sophie.”