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Alpine Skiing At The 1980 Winter Olympics – Women's Giant Slalom
The Women's giant slalom competition of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics was held at Whiteface Mountain on February 20–21. The defending world champion was Maria Epple of West Germany, while West Germany's Christa Kinshofer was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel led the 1980 World Cup. Results : References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics - Women's giant slalom Women's giant slalom Alp Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician * Oly Hicks (born 1968 ...
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Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for recreation or for sport, it is typically practiced at ski resorts, which provide such services as ski lifts, artificial snow making, snow grooming, restaurants, and ski patrol. "Off-piste" skiers—those skiing outside ski area boundaries—may employ snowmobiles, helicopters or snowcats to deliver them to the top of a slope. Back-country skiers may use specialized equipment with a free-heel mode, including 'sticky' skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent. Alpine skiing has been an event at the Winter Olympic Games since 1936. A competition corresponding to modern slalom was introduced in Oslo in 1886. Participants and venues ...
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Christin Cooper
Christin Elizabeth Cooper (born October 10, 1959) is a former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine Skiing, alpine ski racer and Alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Women's giant slalom, Olympic medalist from the United States. Early years Born in Los Angeles, California, she was raised in Ketchum, Idaho, Ketchum, Idaho, and learned to ski and race at neighboring Sun Valley, Idaho, Sun Valley. Cooper's stepfather was Sun Valley, Idaho#Bill Janss (1964–77), William C. "Bill" Janss (1918–96), owner of the Sun Valley Resort until 1977. After her father William died of cancer in Los Angeles, her mother Glenn moved the family of five children to Ketchum in the late 1960s. At the request of longtime friends Bill and Anne Janss, owners of Sun Valley, Mrs. Cooper founded the arts center for the resort in 1969. Anne Janss died in an avalanche accident near the resort in early 1973; later that year Glenn Cooper and Bill Janss were married, with a combined family of eigh ...
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Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová
Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová (born 30 September 1959 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak former alpine skier who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Winter Olympics, 1980 Winter Olympics, and 1984 Winter Olympics. In December 1980, she won an Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill in Altenmarkt, becoming the first east European skier to win a World Cup race. Her best performance at the Olympics was a fifth place in the downhill in 1984. Since retiring from competition, she has served as president of the Slovak Skiing Association, as a member of the Slovak Olympic Committee Executive Board, as a member of the International Ski Federation Alpine Commission, and as Deputy Chef de Mission for the Slovak team at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She is the mother of alpine skier Jana Gantnerová Jana Gantnerová (born 15 July 1989 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak Alpine skier. She made her debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup on 22 October 2005, but she has yet to place in the top 30 in any World Cup ...
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Metka Jerman
Metka Jerman (born 23 January 1963) is a Slovenian alpine skier. She competed in two events at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected ..., representing Yugoslavia. References 1963 births Living people Slovenian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Yugoslavia Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Skiers from Ljubljana {{Slovenia-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Petra Wenzel
Petra Wenzel (born 20 November 1961 in Grabs, Saint Gallen, Switzerland) is a former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics and 1984 Winter Olympics representing Liechtenstein. Career Wenzel made her World Cup debut in 1979 at Lake Placid, finishing 18th in the downhill. She was selected to represent Liechtenstein at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where she competed in Slalom, Giant slalom and Downhill races. Her best result was 14th in the slalom competition. She was selected as flagbearer for her country during the opening ceremony. She also represented her Liechtenstein at the 1980 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships finishing 5th in the Giant slalom. She would once again represent her country in the 1982 World Ski Championship in Schladming, finishing 4th in the Giant Slalom. Wenzel continued to compete in the FIS World Cup until 1984. Her primary disciplines were Slalom and Giant slalom, only competing in Downhill on her debut and at the 1980 Olympics. Her be ...
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Blanca Fernández Ochoa
Blanca Fernández Ochoa (22 April 1963 – August 2019)''La Policía descarta la muerte accidental y violenta de Blanca Fernández Ochoa ''
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Heidi Preuss
Heidi Preuss (born 18 March 1961 in Lakeport, New Hampshire) is an American former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... She is the daughter of the late Remo Preuss of Jena Germany and Elfriede Preuss of Lubeck Germany. External links * 1961 births Living people American female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics 21st-century American women {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Brigitte Nansoz
Brigitte Nansoz (born 20 August 1962 in Evionnaz) is a retired Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... External links * * 1962 births Living people Swiss female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Skiers from Valais People from Saint-Maurice District 20th-century Swiss sportswomen {{switzerland-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Ann Melander
Ann Eva Margareta Melander (born 18 June 1961 in Lund) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр .... External links * * 1961 births Swedish female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Sweden Sportspeople from Lund Living people 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Ingrid Eberle
Ingrid Eberle (born 3 June 1957 in Dornbirn) is a retired Austrian alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... References * 1957 births Living people Austrian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Vorarlberg People from Dornbirn {{Austria-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Cindy Nelson
Cynthia Lee Nelson (born August 19, 1955) is former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Racing career Born and raised in Lutsen in northeastern Minnesota, Nelson's family ran the local ski area and she was on skis before the age of three. She raced in all five alpine disciplines, with a focus on downhill, and was on the World Cup squad of the U.S. Ski Team at age 16. Nelson won the silver medal in the downhill at the 1982 World Championships and was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 1976 Winter Olympics. During her first World Cup season, she had two top-15 finishes in downhill as the 1972 Winter Olympics neared. She was expected to make the U.S. Olympic team, but dislocated a hip in a downhill at Grindelwald on January 18, two weeks before the games began. She missed those Winter Olympics but competed in 1976, 1980, and 1984. Two years after her hip injury she won her first World Cup race back at Grindelwald in 1974, the first-ever American to gain ...
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Nadezhda Andreyeva
Nadezhda Patrikeyeva Andreyeva (russian: Надежда Андреева née Патрикеева; 3 January 1959 – 11 August 2014) was a Russian alpine skier. She competed at the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom with the best achievement of sixth place in the slalom in 1980. She missed the 1976 Olympics due to a serious injury in a slalom in late 1975, which resulted in a broken pelvis and concussion. She was born in a family of clerks and has an elder brother Yuri (born 1957), also an alpine skier who competed internationally. After the 1984 Olympics she won the national titles in slalom and giant slalom and retired from competitions. From 2001 until her death she worked as a director of sports school in a village of Shukolovo, Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "un ...
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