Karen Percy

Karen Percy
nation	Canada
birthday	10th October 1966 (age 53)
place of birth	Banff , Canada
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1990
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 2 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Calgary 1988 Departure bronze Calgary 1988 Super G  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Vail 1989 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 9. ( 1988/89 )  Downhill World Cup 4. ( 1987/88 )  Super G World Cup 12. (1988/89)  Giant Slalom World Cup 14th (1988/89)  Slalom World Cup 15. (1988/89)  Combination World Cup 3. (1987/88)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 2  combination 0 1 1

Karen Percy (born October 10, 1966 in Banff , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ski racer .

biography

The then almost 20-year-old Percy achieved her first podium in the Downhill from Sunshine (CAN), 1986 with starting number 30.

At the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 she won bronze in the downhill (behind Marina Kiehl and Brigitte Oertli ) and in the Super-G (behind Sigrid Wolf and Michela Figini ) in her closer home . In fourth place, she narrowly missed the medal ranks in the Alpine Combined . At the 1989 World Ski Championships in Vail , she was runner-up in the downhill run behind Maria Walliser .

She never achieved a World Cup victory. As the best results she achieved four 2nd places:

• Departure from Zinal (SUI), 1988
• Super-G from Lake Louise (CAN), 1989
• Combination from Mellau (AUT), 1989
• Combination of Grindelwald (SUI), 1989

Although she was a specialist in the fast disciplines, she also achieved positions in the top 10 in giant slalom and slalom . She announced her retirement from active ski racing in 1990. In the course of her career she was Canadian champion seven times (downhill 1986, Super-G 1985-1988, giant slalom 1988 and 1989).

Personal

Percy is married to former NHL pro Kevin Lowe . Her son Keegan Lowe also made it to the highest ice hockey league in North America.

Web links

• Karen Percy in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Karen Percy in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Karen Percy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Brief portrait of Karen Percy