Barbara Ferries
Barbara Hale Ferries-Henderson (born September 5, 1944 in Houghton , Michigan ) is a former American ski racer .
Ferries was part of the US national ski team in the 1960s, as did her brother Chuck . At the age of 16, she won slalom , downhill and combined in the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley in 1961 . She celebrated her greatest success at the 1962 World Ski Championships in Chamonix : as a 17-year-old one of the youngest in the field, she won the bronze medal in the downhill and was also fifth in the giant slalom .
In her only Olympic participation in Innsbruck in 1964 , she was unable to confirm these results and only finished 20th in the giant slalom. After the 1964 Winter Games, she ended her active career.
Web links
- Barbara Ferries in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Barbara Ferries in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Barbara Ferries in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Ferries, Barbara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferries-Henderson, Barbara Hale (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houghton (Michigan) , United States |