Allison Forsyth

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Allison Forsyth Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 14th October 1978 (age 41)
place of birth Nanaimo , Canada
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom , super-G ,
downhill , combination
society Mount Washington Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 2008
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze St. Moritz 2003 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 24. ( 1999/2000 , 2000/01 )
 Downhill World Cup 38th ( 2005/06 )
 Super G World Cup 31. (2005/06)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 5th (1999/2000)
 Slalom World Cup 21st (2000/01)
 Combination World Cup 26. (2005/06)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 4th 1
 

Allison Forsyth (born October 14, 1978 in Nanaimo , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ski racer . In her strongest discipline, giant slalom , she achieved five podium places in the World Cup and won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup . At the beginning of her career she also started in slalom and later in the fast super-G and downhill disciplines . In training for the 2006 Winter Olympics, the eight-time Canadian champion suffered serious injuries to her left knee, from which she did not recover and due to which she announced her retirement two years later.

biography

Forsyth was from 1996 in the squad of the Canadian Ski Association. She achieved her first major successes in the Nor-Am Cup in the 1997/98 season , when she won two slaloms and a giant slalom and won the slalom ranking. In the Junior World Championships she just missed the medal ranks several times. In 1997 she was fourth in giant slalom and in 1998 fourth in slalom and giant slalom. She drove her first World Cup races in December 1997. Regular World Cup starts followed from the 1998/99 season , in which she won her first World Cup points and achieved two top 20 placements. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek she reached tenth place in slalom and 16th place in giant slalom. In the next winter she managed to catch up with the absolute top of the world. She drove in six World Cup giant slaloms under the top ten and achieved her first podium finishes with two second places in Lienz and Cortina d'Ampezzo , placing her fifth in the discipline World Cup.

The next two years went similarly well, in which she was among the top ten in a total of nine giant slaloms and each achieved a podium (second place in Cortina d'Ampezzo in January 2001 and second place in Copper Mountain in November 2001). In the Giant Slalom World Cup she was eighth in the 2000/01 season and ninth in 2001/02 . In the slalom she did not achieve these results, but she was able to place in the top 20 several times in this discipline. In her Super-G and downhill races, which were rare at the beginning, she was still without World Cup points. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg , she reached sixth place and seventh place in the giant slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In the slalom, she failed both times in the first round.

In the 2002/03 season Forsyths World Cup results deteriorated. She did not get past two eighth places and fell back to 19th place in the Giant Slalom World Cup. Nevertheless, she celebrated the greatest success of her career this winter when she won the bronze medal in giant slalom at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz behind Anja Pärson and Denise Karbon . In this discipline, this was the first Canadian World Cup medal since Kathy Kreiner's victory in 1976 .

From the middle of the 2003/04 season , Forsyth no longer competed in World Cup slaloms, but instead started increasingly in the Super-G as well as in the giant slalom and from 2005 also in the downhill - initially without success. In the giant slalom she was able to keep up with the extended world elite. Top-10 results became rarer, however, and she only finished third in the giant slalom in Santa Caterina on January 8, 2005 - more than three years after her last podium finish. In the Giant Slalom World Cup, from the 2003/2004 season , she always achieved placings around 15th place. From the 2004/05 season she was also able to score in the Super-G (her best results in this discipline were two 15th places in December 2004 in Lake Louise and in January 2006 in St. Moritz), at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina, however, she failed in Super-G and Giant Slalom. In January 2006 she also reached the points in three World Cup runs, with a 14th place in Bad Kleinkirchheim being her best result.

On February 13, 2006 Forsyth had a hard fall in the second downhill training session of the Winter Olympics in Turin . She suffered a torn cruciate ligament and other injuries in her left knee. After taking a break for the whole of the next season, she competed in two races of the South American Cup in August 2007 , but injured her knee again in training for the World Cup opener of the 2007/2008 season in Sölden. The consequences of the injuries made a return to top-class sport impossible and so she announced her resignation in June 2008.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

Nor-Am Cup

  • 1997/98 season : 1st slalom ranking
  • 15 podium places, including 6 wins:
date place country discipline
January 1, 1998 Waterville Valley United States slalom
January 4, 1998 Sugarbush United States Giant slalom
March 13, 1998 Bogus Basin United States slalom
March 28, 1999 Mount Hood United States slalom
April 1, 1999 Mount Bachelor United States Giant slalom
February 29, 2004 panorama Canada Super G

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Allison Forsyth announces retirement. , The Sports Network, June 18, 2008 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Injuries force skier Allison Forsyth to retire. CBC, June 18, 2008, accessed May 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Forsyth, Allison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanaimo , Canada