Zoe Haas (born 24 January 1962 in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

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) is a

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former alpine skier specialising in

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giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

, and Super-G. Haas competed in the Super-G in the

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Olympics, placing 7th, and in the

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Albertville Olympics, where she came in 10th. In World Cup skiing, she finished in the top ten 44 times and won twice. Despite start number 37, she won the first downhill race of the season in Puy Saint-Vincent (1984). She was declared the winner of the super-G at

Lech Lech may refer to: People * Lech (name), a name of Polish origin * Lech, the legendary founder of Poland * Lech (Bohemian prince) Products and organizations * Lech (beer), Polish beer produced by Kompania Piwowarska, in Poznań * Lech Poznań, ...

(1988) after the first-place finisher was disqualified. In her last World Cup race, the super-G in Crans-Montana in March 1992, she finished in third place behind

Carole Merle Carole Merle (; born 24 January 1964) is a former France, French Alpine skiing, Alpine skier. A specialist of Giant Slalom and Super-G, she won 22 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup races, 6 World Cup season titles and 1 FIS Alpine World Ski Cha ...

and

Merete Fjeldavlie Merete Fjeldavlie (born 13 August 1968 in Oslo) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier. In March 1992 she won a World Cup race in Super-G in Vail, beating Petra Kronberger and Carole Merle. That season she came second in the overall Super-G World ...

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* * * * Living people 1962 births Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland Swiss female alpine skiers Skiers from Calgary Swiss people of Canadian descent {{Switzerland-alpine-skiing-bio-stub