Alisa Camplin

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Alisa Camplin Freestyle skiing
Full name Alisa Peta Camplin
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday November 10, 1974
place of birth Melbourne
Career
discipline Aerials
society Team Buller
status resigned
End of career February 22, 2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Salt Lake City 2002 Aerials
bronze Turin 2006 Aerials
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Deer Valley 2003 Aerials
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 26, 1997
 World Cup victories 10
 Overall World Cup 4th (2003/04)
 Aerials World Cup 1. (2002/03, 2003/04)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 10 5 4th
 

Alisa Peta Camplin-Warner AM (born November 10, 1974 in Melbourne ) is an Australian former freestyle ski jumper . She was once a world champion and an Olympic champion.

biography

Originally an artistic gymnast, she studied information technology at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Inspired by the achievements of three-time Olympian Kirstie Marshall , she also wanted to become a freestyler, although she could not ski at all. For this purpose she turned in 1994 to the "Olympic Winter Institute of Australia". She trained her jumps in a small lake in Wandin, a suburb of Melbourne. She has suffered numerous injuries over the course of her career, including a broken collarbone, broken hand, and nine concussions.

Before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she had some top 10 placings in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup , but still no victory. Her compatriot Jacqui Cooper was a big favorite, but she suffered a knee injury a week before the Olympic competition. Quite surprisingly, Camplin won the gold medal. She later testified that the surprising Olympic victory of short track runner Steven Bradbury had given her wings. Four days after the victory, on February 22, 2002, the Australian Post issued a 45 cents stamp in her honor . The successes of Camplin and Bradbury sparked a winter sports boom in Australia.

At the Freestyle World Championships 2003 in Deer Valley , Camplin proved that her success was no accident by winning the world title. In addition, she won 10 World Cup competitions (status: end of February 2006) and won the World Cup discipline in the 2002/03 and 2003/04 seasons.

In October 2005, she suffered a serious knee injury. To accelerate healing, she resorted to an unusual method and had a donated tendon implanted from a deceased person. Just eleven weeks after the operation, she resumed training and qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics with fourth place in the World Cup competition in Lake Placid . She carried the Australian flag into the stadium during the opening ceremony. At the Olympic competition in Sauze d'Oulx , she won the bronze medal behind the Swiss Evelyne Leu and the Chinese Li Nina .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

Camplin achieved 19 podiums, including 10 wins:

date place country
January 12, 2003 Mont Tremblant Canada
January 17, 2003 Lake Placid United States
February 7, 2003 Steamboat Springs United States
December 5, 2003 Ruka Finland
January 11, 2004 Mont Tremblant Canada
January 18, 2004 Lake Placid United States
January 25, 2004 Fernie Canada
January 31, 2004 Lake Placid United States
February 14, 2004 Harbin China
March 10, 2004 Sauze d'Oulx Italy

More Achievements

  • 2 wins in the Continental Cup
  • 1 win in the European Cup

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personal data
SURNAME Camplin, Alisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camplin, Alisa Peta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian freestyle ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia