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United States At The 1968 Winter Olympics
The United States competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Medalists The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. , width="78%" align="left" valign="top" , , width=22% align=left valign=top , Alpine skiing Men Women Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Figure skating Ladies' singles skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges. Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the death of an entire US figure skating team in an air crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The USOPC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country. The USOPC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U.S. teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States. The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is supported by 35 international federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in their respective nations, and national federations that administer each sport at the nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis McCoy (alpine Skier)
Dennis McCoy (born May 27, 1945) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. He competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and finished 21st in the downhill and had three top ten finishes in World Cup competition. McCoy is the brother of Penny McCoy, the bronze medalist in the women's slalom at the 1966 World Championships. Their father is Dave McCoy (b. 1915), the founder of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in California, and the family of six children was raised in nearby Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca .... External links * * * * 1945 births Living people American male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Nagel
Judy Ann Nagel (born August 27, 1951) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Early years Born in Seattle, Washington, Nagel was the younger of two daughters of an Olympic ski racer. She learned to ski and race at Stevens Pass when the family lived in Skykomish. When Crystal Mountain began operations in 1962, her father headed the new ski school and race program, and the family relocated to Enumclaw. Her father, Jack Nagel (1926–2004), was a member of the U.S. alpine team at the 1952 Winter Olympics; he fell in the first run of the slalom and finished 29th in the giant slalom. Born in Port Townsend and raised in Skykomish, Jack was a third-generation logger when skiing was gaining popularity in the 1940s. He later ran the only gas station in Skykomish and was a ski instructor at Stevens Pass until 1962, when the new Crystal Mountain opened near Mount Rainier. His racing school was featured in ''Sports Illustrated'' in 1963, with older daughter Cathy, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's Giant Slalom ...
The Women's giant slalom competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse. The defending world champion was Marielle Goitschel of France, while Canada's Nancy Greene was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion, who also led the current season, along with Switzerland's Fernande Bochatay. Results : References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1968 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) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Allen
Wendy Irene Allen (born November 16, 1944) is an American former alpine skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics.sports-reference.com Wendy Allen Sports Reference, Retrieved 22 September 2016 Life Allen was born in Los Angeles in 1944. She competed in the slalom event at the 1967 US Championships and she was second. She also took second place at the Vail Alpine Holiday slalom in 1967. Allen took part in the1968 Alpine Skiing World Cup
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Sandy Shellworth
Sandra "Sandy" Shellworth (December 18, 1944 – January 10, 2019) was an alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Shellworth was raised in Boise, Idaho, where her father, Eugene Shellworth was mayor (1961–66). A 1962 graduate of Boise High, she raced for Bogus Basin, the University of Colorado, and the U.S. Ski Team. Shellworth won the Roch Cup downhill in Aspen in 1967, and was the 1967 U.S. Champion in giant slalom at Missoula, but broke her leg hours later training for the downhill. Shellworth was the first woman from CU to participate in the Olympics; she competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble and finished 21st in the women's downhill at Chamrousse. Her best finish in a World Cup event was 12th in the downhill at Schruns, Austria, in January 1967. Olympic results *From 1948 through 1980, the alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Cutter
Christina "Kiki" Cutter (born July 24, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She was the first American to win a World Cup event, a slalom race in Oslo, Norway, on February 25, 1968. Although Cutter competed on the World Cup circuit for less than three years, her five career victories led the U.S. alpine team for eleven years, surpassed by Phil Mahre in 1979. Early years Born in central Oregon in Bend, Cutter learned to ski and race at Mount Bachelor, known as "Bachelor Butte" until 1983. She was one of six children of Dr. Robert Cutter and Jane Cutter, who relocated to Bend from the Midwest in 1948, and Kiki was the first in the family born in Oregon. Cutter was a junior racer at Mount Bachelor and gained recognition for her abilities; she won the U.S. junior downhill championship in 1967 at age 17. Racing career Not originally on the World Cup or Olympic teams in 1968, Cutter, age 18, and Judy Nagel, age 16, were brought over to Europe in Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzy Chaffee
Suzy may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Suzy'' (film), a 1936 film starring Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone and Cary Grant * "Suzy" (Fool's Garden song), a song by German pop band Fool's Garden * "Suzy", a song by French electro swing band Caravan Palace * Suzy Turquoise Blue, character in The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix * one of the title characters of ''Spike and Suzy'', a Belgian comics series People * Suzy (given name) * Bae Suzy or Suzy, stage name of Bae Soo-ji (born 1994), a South Korean singer and member of girl group Miss A * Aileen Mehle (1918–2016), American newspaper and magazine columnist who wrote under the bylines "Suzy" and "Suzy Knickerbocker" * Suzy (singer) (born 1980), Portuguese singer * Suzy (footballer), Brazilian footballer Suzy Bittencourt de Oliveira Other uses * Suzy, Aisne, a commune in northern France * Suzy (record label), a record label in Croatia See also * Susie (other) * Susi (other) * Susy (other) * Suzie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's Downhill
The Women's Downhill competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse on Saturday, 10 February. The defending world champion was Marielle Goitschel of France, who was also the defending World Cup downhill champion and Austria's Olga Pall led the current season. Christl Haas of Austria was the defending Olympic champion. Pall won the gold medal, Isabelle Mir of France took the silver, and Haas was the bronze medalist. The starting gate was at an elevation of , and the vertical drop was . The course length was and Pall's winning time of 100.87 seconds resulted in an average speed of , with an average vertical descent rate of . About an hour before the race, eighteen-year-old American Karen Budge was testing her wax on the practice course and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni, who had been warned once before to stay off the hill. She fell, suffered a dislocated shoulder, and did not start. Results Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Budge
Karen Annette Budge (born November 14, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She had three podium finishes and 30 top ten results in World Cup competitions between 1967 and 1972; overall her best result was 15th place in the 1969–70 season. At the 1972 Winter Olympics she placed 14th in the downhill and 23rd in the giant slalom events. Born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming, Budge married Gordi Eaton, a former alpine ski racer and coach. They reside in Middlebury, Vermont and co-own a restaurant in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains near Loon Mountain and Cannon Mountain ski areas. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in France, eighteen-year-old Budge was testing her wax on a practice course an hour before the women's downhill at Chamrousse, and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni Said Housni (born 1949) is a Moroccan alpine ski racer who competed in the technical events of giant slalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's Slalom
The Men's slalom competition of the Grenoble 1968 Olympics was held at Chamrousse. The defending world champion was Carlo Senoner of Italy, while France's Jean-Claude Killy was the defending World Cup slalom champion and Switzerland's Dumeng Giovanoli was the leader of the 1968 World Cup. Final Classification Round One The top two in each heat advanced directly to the final, with the other racers moving to the second round. Heat A Heat B Heat C Heat D Heat E Heat F Heat G Heat H Heat I Heat J Heat K Heat L Heat M Heat N Heat O Heat P Heat Q Round Two The winner of each heat advanced to the final. Heat A Heat B Heat C Heat D Heat E Heat F Heat G Heat H Heat I Heat J Heat K Heat L Heat M Heat N Heat O Heat P Heat Q References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics - Men's slalom Men's slalom Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Sabich
Vladimir Peter Sabich Jr. (January 10, 1945 – March 21, 1976) was an American alpine ski racer, a member of the U.S. Ski Team on the World Cup circuit in the late 1960s. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and was the pro ski racing champion in 1971 and 1972. Sabich was killed by gunshot under controversial circumstances in 1976. Early life The grandson of Croatian immigrants, Sabich was the second child of Vladimir (1915–2001) and Frances Sabich (1911–2003). His lifelong nickname "Spider" was given by his father, as a result of thin arms and legs at a premature birth. Spider's father was an officer of the California Highway Patrol and had volunteered in World War II as a B-25 pilot in the Air Force; he was held as an internee in Siberia by the Soviets for a year after his plane was shot-up over northern Japan and forced down near Vladivostok. After the war, Vlad was a test pilot and then returned to his job with the CHP in Sacramento, and in 1950 he was transferred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
