Anne Heggtveit

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Heggtveit (1960)

Anne Heggtveit (born January 11, 1939 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ski racer .

In 1954, at the age of 15, Heggtveit surprisingly won the giant slalom on Holmenkollen . A serious leg injury then forced her to take a longer break from competition in 1955. Four years later she won three Canadian championship titles (downhill, slalom, combined).

Heggveit celebrated the greatest success of her sporting career in 1960 at the Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley , when she became Olympic champion in slalom. With a lead of 3.3 seconds, she exceeded that of Renée Colliard , who had achieved one of 3.1 seconds four years ago - and it is this in an Olympic women's slalom in general (and in the women's world championship slalom in the post-war period ) the greatest achieved distance between the gold and the silver medal. In the non-Olympic alpine combination, she became world champion.

Anne Heggtveit was the first female athlete to win the John Semmelink Memorial Award in 1961 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jack Koffman: Honor Anne as 1st Winner John Semmelink Memorial. In: Ottawa Citizen , November 21, 1961, p. 15. Online , accessed May 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Heggtveit, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario