Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former

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alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada. Born in

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, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions. She attained her first World Cup podium early in December 1990, then had five more top-six finishes early in the

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entering the

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, France. On the ''Roc de Fer'' course at

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, Lee-Gartner won the gold medal in the Olympic

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. Only 0.06 seconds behind was silver medallist

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of the

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, for a North American 1–2 finish. Through

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, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian. She finished sixth in the Olympic

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and had two more podiums after the Olympics, both in North America, to finish up the 1992 season. Lee-Gartner's next season in

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was her best on the World Cup circuit, with two podiums and twelve top tens. She finished third in the downhill standings and ninth overall. At the

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in Japan, she was fourth in the super-G and ninth in the downhill. Leading up to the

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, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friend

Ulrike Maier Ulrike Maier (22 October 1967 – 29 January 1994) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria, a two-time World Champion in Super-G. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics. Born in Rauris, Salzburg, where h ...

after a crash in a downhill race in late January. At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in the

and 19th in the

, and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the

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World Cup season. Lee-Gartner is currently a television broadcaster with CBC Sports in Canada. She also assisted the

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with coverage of the

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in Vancouver.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

* 6 podiums – (4 DH, 2 SG)

World Championship results

Olympic results

Video

CBC interview
– following her Olympic gold medal run, February 1992

Personal

During May 2018, Lee-Gartner was part of a group of four female athletes, including

Cassie Campbell Cassie Dawin Campbell-Pascall (born November 22, 1973) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and a current broadcaster for Sportsnet and ESPN. Born in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Campbell grew up in Brampton, Ontario, playing for the Brampton Canad ...

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and

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to publicly pledge their brain to a Canadian research centre. The posthumous donation shall be made to Toronto Western Hospital’s Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women's brains.

References

External links

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