Andrea Mead-Lawrence

Andrea Mead-Lawrence
nation	United States
birthday	April 19, 1932
place of birth	Rutland , Vermont
date of death	March 30, 2009
Place of death	Mammoth Lakes , California
Career
discipline	Giant slalom , slalom
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Oslo 1952 Giant slalom gold Oslo 1952 slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Oslo 1952 Giant slalom gold Oslo 1952 slalom

Andrea Mead-Lawrence (born April 19, 1932 in Rutland , Vermont , † March 30, 2009 in Mammoth Lakes , California ) was an American ski racer . It was successful in the slalom and giant slalom disciplines in the late 1940s and 1950s .

biography

Mead's family owned Pico Mountain , one of Vermont's earliest winter sports resorts. At the age of 14 she was accepted into the national team; a year later she took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , where she finished eighth in the slalom on February 5. At the 1950 World Championships in Aspen , she was sixth in the same discipline on February 15. Mead won the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley in 1950 and 1953 and won in 1951 (January 14; also rank 6 in the downhill on January 12) and in 1952 in the giant slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald , in which she was second in the same years in slalom and combination. In 1956 you got there with third place in the slalom and two podiums in the combination.
From 1949 to 1955 she won a total of ten American championship titles in all disciplines.

Mead celebrated the greatest successes of her career at the 1952 Winter Olympics : In Oslo she won gold in both slalom and giant slalom; she was thus the first American female ski racer to become Olympic champion twice. Four years later she just missed another medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo as fourth in the giant slalom. In 1958 she was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame .

In 1951 Mead married ski racer David Lawrence and moved with him to Aspen in the 1960s. There she was a member of the city planning commission for several years. In 1967 she divorced and moved to Mammoth Lakes with her five children. In 1982 she was elected to the Mono County Council for 16 years.

In 2003 she founded the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers , a nature conservation organization that works in the eastern part of the Sierra Nevada . Mead-Lawrence also worked to protect Mono Lake . On March 30, 2009, she died of cancer after a long illness. In January 2013, a previously unnamed mountain with a height of 3731 m above Mammoth Lake on the border of Yosemite National Park was named Mt. Andrea Lawrence in her honor .

statistics

	discipline	space
Oslo 1952	Giant slalom	1.
	slalom	1.
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956	Giant slalom	4th

Works

• Andrea Mead Lawrence, Sara Burnaby: A Practice of Mountains . Seaview Books, New York 1980, ISBN 0-87223-593-9 .

Web links

• Andrea Mead-Lawrence in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
• Detailed biography ( memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Andrea Mead-Lawrence in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Obituary in the New York Times (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Douglas Martin: Andrea Mead Lawrence, Skiing Champion, Dies at 76. In: The New York Times . April 1, 2009, accessed December 22, 2012 . 
2. ^ "Austria's female runners without a win" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Arlbergers win on the Lauberhorn"; Subtitle: “An Austrian success in Grindelwald too” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1951, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ "Schneider also won the combination", subtitle: "The time measurement failed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ^ "The Swiss Berthod in Grindelwald ahead" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1956, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ United States Ski Association (Ed.): A History. United States Ski Association. Colorado Springs 1967, pp. 77-79.
7. ↑ Mono Lake Committee: Mt. Andrea Lawrence naming made official by President Obama , January 14, 2013