AJ putty
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Full name | Alvar Ross putty | ||||||||||||
nation | United States | ||||||||||||
birthday | 13th September 1968 (age 51) | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Rochester , United States | ||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg | ||||||||||||
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discipline | Downhill , Super-G , combination | ||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||
End of career | March 23, 1998 | ||||||||||||
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Alvar Ross "AJ" Kitt (born September 13, 1968 in Rochester , New York) is a former American ski racer .
biography
Kitt learned to ski on a hill near New York , where his parents worked as a hobby ski instructor. It was only when Kitt was 23 years old that he revealed his real name (although the media sometimes used the term "Alva Junior"). He found the name his father (a print shop owner and publisher) had given him to be very old-fashioned.
He won his first points in the World Cup on January 23, 1988 when he was twelfth on the downhill in Leukerbad . During the next two years he was particularly successful in the Nor-Am Cup . In the 1988/89 season he won the downhill and Super-G classification and again the downhill classification in the 1989/90 season. From 1990 he was able to regularly place in the points in the World Cup. In September 1990 he succeeded in winning the gold medal in the Super-G at the Pan American Games in Las Leñas . On December 7, 1991, he won his first World Cup race, the downhill from Val-d'Isère . This should be his only victory, but Kitt achieved very good placings several times. At the end of the 1991/92 season he was in third place in the Downhill Discipline World Cup.
Before leaving the 1992 Winter Olympics , AJ Kitt was one of the favorites to win, but in the end he was only ninth. He achieved his greatest success at the 1993 World Championships in Morioka , when he won the bronze medal in the downhill run behind the Swiss Urs Lehmann and the Norwegian Atle Skårdal .
After suffering a cruciate ligament rupture on December 8, 1995 during the final training session on the descent from Val Gardena , Kitt had to take a year off. He then tried a comeback , but hardly ever reached a place in the top 30 and in March 1998 he retired from top-class sport. At the national level he had won four championship titles (Downhill 1992 and 1995, Super-G 1991 and 1992).
After his resignation, he worked as an analyst and reporter for CBS , NBC and Outdoor Life Network , among other things , and appeared on numerous occasions as a speaker, developed a nutrition program for ski racers. Today, Kitt is the designer of sports luggage with the brand name AJ Sport Luggage .
successes
Olympic games
- Albertville 1992 : 9th Downhill, 23rd Super-G
- Lillehammer 1994 : 17th departure
World championships
- Morioka 1993 : 3rd descent
- Sestriere 1997 : 23rd Downhill, 25th Super-G
World cup
AJ Kitt won a world cup race:
date | place | country | discipline |
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December 7, 1991 | Val d'Isère | France | Departure |
In addition, he achieved five podium places (four times in the downhill, once in the super-G) and 14 further placements in the top ten (eleven times in the downhill, twice in the combination and once in the super-G).
Nor-Am Cup
- 1988/89 season : 1st downhill classification, 1st Super-G classification
- Season 1989/90 : 1. Departure rating
- Season 1994/95 : 1. Departure rating
More Achievements
- Pan American Winter Games 1990 : Gold in Super-G and bronze in Downhill
Web links
- AJ Kitt in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- AJ Kitt in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- AJ Kitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kitt, AJ |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kitt, Alvar Ross (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester , New York |