Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Alpine Skiing - Women's Downhill - 2104 Winter Olympics

 Tina Maze
Gold Medal
Slovenia
Tina Maze (born 2 May 1983) is a Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. She is one of just six women who have won in all five World Cup events and one of three who have won in all five disciplines in a single season. Maze has 23 World Cup victories and is the current world champion in Super-G and Olympic champion in downhill. She was the world champion in giant slalom in 2011, and won the overall World Cup in the 2013 season. In this season, she listed 11 victories and won a record number of World Cup points – 2414, beating the previous record of Hermann Maier of 2000 points from the 2000 season. In that season, she won the Super-G and Giant Slalom titles, finished first in the Combined event (although no globe was awarded) and finished second in Slalom and Downhill. Maze also improved previous Maier's record of podium finishes in a single season (22) with 24 podiums. In 2005, 2010, 2011, and 2013, she was awarded the title of the best Slovenian female athlete of the year.

Dominique Gisin
Gold Medal
Switzerland
Dominique Gisin (born 4 June 1985) is a World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Switzerland.
Born in Engelberg in the canton of Obwalden, Gisin made her World Cup debut in December 2005. Her first podium was in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, where she placed second in the downhill on 13 January 2007. Two years later in January 2009, she gained her first World Cup victory, also a downhill at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, with the same time as Anja Pärson.
At the Winter Olympics in 2014, she tied for first in the downhill with Tina Maze and both were awarded gold medals.It was the first-ever tie in an alpine event at the Olympics.
Through January 2014, Gisin has 3 World Cup victories, 7 podiums, and 39 top ten finishes.Her younger siblings Marc and Michelle also compete as alpine ski racers.
Julia Mancuso
8th Place
U.S.A.
Julia Marie Mancuso (born 9 March 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Reno, Nevada, of Italian descent, she was the gold medalist in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the silver medalist in both downhill and combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the bronze medalist in the combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She has also won five medals (two silver and three bronze) at the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Her four Olympic medals are the most ever for a female American alpine skier.

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