Billy Kidd

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Billy Kidd Alpine skiing
Full name William Winston Kidd
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 13th April 1943 (age 77)
place of birth Burlington , United States
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1970
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Innsbruck 1964 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Innsbruck 1964 slalom
bronze Innsbruck 1964 combination
gold Val Gardena 1970 combination
bronze Val Gardena 1970 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1967
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 7th ( 1968 )
 Downhill World Cup 9th (1968)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 8. (1968)
 Slalom World Cup 8. ( 1968/69 , 1969/70 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 2 0 2
 

William Winston "Billy" Kidd (born April 13, 1943 in Burlington ( Vermont )) is a former American ski racer.

biography

He won two slalom races in the Ski World Cup . At the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , he won the silver medal in slalom. In the alpine combination, also held as part of the games, he came third. This discipline was not "Olympic" at that time, the race was counted as a world championship. On August 4, 1966, on the opening day of the 1966 Alpine World Ski Championships in Portillo , Kidd suffered a double fracture of his right leg while training on the downhill run. At the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1970 in Val Gardena , he was world champion in combination and third in slalom. Although this world championship was also part of the World Cup, only third place in the slalom was included in the World Cup ranking, because World Cup combinations are only held from 1974/75.

He won two races in the Ski World Cup .

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
March 16, 1968 Aspen United States slalom
February 28, 1969 Squaw Valley United States slalom

More Achievements

  • Victory in the slalom of the "Silver Fir Race" in Bad Hindelang (2 best times) on January 5th, 1966
  • Victory in the giant slalom in Adelboden on 9/10. January 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start in Portillo - Broken Leg Kidds . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 5, 1966, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ Bill Kidd, Portillo's third victim . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 5, 1966, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Schranz behind Kidd and Melquiond . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1966, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ^ Adelboden: Again without any success . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1966, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Kidd, Billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kidd, William Winston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Burlington ( Vermont )