Ashleigh McIvor

Ashleigh McIvor
Ashleigh McIvor at the 2010 Olympics
nation	Canada
birthday	September 15, 1983
place of birth	Vancouver
size	178 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Ski cross
society	Whistler Mountain Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	November 2012
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Vancouver 2010 Ski cross  Freestyle Skiing World Championships gold Inawashiro 2009 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 25, 2004  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 7th ( 2009/10 )  Ski cross world cup 2. (2009/10)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Ski cross 1 7th 3

Ashleigh McIvor (born September 15, 1983 in Vancouver ) is a former Canadian freestyle skier . She specialized in the discipline of ski cross . In 2009 she won the world title and in 2010 she became an Olympic champion.

biography

McIvor first took part in ski cross races in 2003 and won a qualifying race for the X Games in Aspen despite a dislocated shoulder . At the X Games itself, she finished seventh, after which she decided to practice the sport professionally. In the 2003/04 season she mainly competed in the Saab Crossmax Series . On October 25, 2004, she took part in a World Cup race in Saas-Fee for the first time and immediately came second behind the French Ophélie David .

McIvor let more than three years pass before her next World Cup race, and she could hardly celebrate any more successes at other races. Until 2007 she was largely on her own, as the Canadian Ski Association did not yet have a national ski cross team. That changed when it was determined that the discipline would be part of the program of the Winter Olympics. In the 2007/08 World Cup season, McIvor was placed in the top five twice.

McIvor was even more successful in the 2008/09 World Cup season. She took three podiums and stayed in the top ten in seven out of ten races. A first highlight of her career was the 2009 World Cup in Inawashiro . As the 28th of the qualification, she was assigned the most unfavorable lane in all finals, but was able to prevail in each case, advanced to the finals and finally won the gold medal.

McIvor won a World Cup race for the first time on January 9, 2010 in Les Contamines . A little more than six weeks later, on February 24th, he won the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics . In the final, she clearly prevailed against Hedda Berntsen and Marion Josserand and thus became the first female Olympic champion in this discipline. In the World Cup she came in second place behind Ophélie David in the discipline classification.

In the 2010/11 World Cup season, McIvor initially achieved two podium places. During training for the X Games 2011, she tore a cruciate ligament in late January 2011 and had to end the season early. After she had not participated in any World Cup races in the winter of 2011/12, McIvor announced her retirement in November 2012.

successes

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010 : 1st ski cross

World championships

• Inawashiro 2009 : 1st ski cross

World cup

• Season 2008/09 : 16th overall World Cup, 5th Ski Cross World Cup
• Season 2009/10 : 7th overall World Cup, 2nd Ski Cross World Cup
• 11 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country
January 9, 2010	Les Contamines	France

More Achievements

• 2nd place X Games 2010

Web links

Commons : Ashleigh McIvor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ashleigh McIvor's website
• Ashleigh McIvor in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ashleigh McIvor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile X Games

Individual evidence

1. ^ Knee injury ends Ashleigh McIvor's season. The Globe and Mail , January 29, 2011, accessed February 26, 2011 . 
2. ^ Ski cross Olympic gold medalist McIvor announces retirement. (No longer available online.) Alpine Canada, November 16, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 17, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.