Caroline Lalive
Caroline Lalive 
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 Caroline Lalive in January 2009 |
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 United States
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| birthday | 10th August 1979 (age 41) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Truckee , United States | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 164 cm | ||||||||||||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , super-G , slalom , giant slalom , combination |
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| society | Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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Caroline Lalive (born August 10, 1979 in Truckee , California ) is a former American ski racer . Despite her strengths in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines , she was considered an all-rounder during her active time.
biography
Lalive was born the daughter of an American and a Swiss national and grew up in Switzerland . There she skied for the first time as a two-year-old. She competed in her first race when she was six.
From 1996 Lalive was a member of the US national ski team. After her first successes in FIS races , in the Nor-Am Cup and in the European Cup , she contested her first World Cup race in November 1996 . From the 1997/98 season she competed regularly in the World Cup. She finished second four times (two downhill runs and two combinations) and was among the top ten another 28 times.
At major championships, Lalive was only at the top once: in 1999 she became the junior world champion in combination. In the combination she had also finished seventh at the Winter Olympics in Nagano the year before . Caroline Lalive was also in the US Olympic team in Salt Lake City in 2002 , but could not finish any of her three races. She was denied a third participation in the Olympic Games after breaking her left kneecap in training shortly before the start of the 2006 Games in Turin .
After a series of further injuries, she announced her retirement from active ski racing in the summer of 2009.
successes
Olympic games
- Nagano 1998 : 7th combination
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 28th Super-G
- St. Moritz 2003 : 13th combination, 30th descent
- Bormio 2005 : 12th Super-G
World cup
- Season 1999/2000 : 2. Combination results
- Season 2000/01 : 2. Combination results
- 5 podium places
- 25 further placements among the top ten
Continental Cups
- 2 podium places in the European Cup , including 1 victory
- 8 podiums in the Nor-Am Cup , including 1 victory
Junior World Championships
- Schladming 1997 : 9th slalom, 10th Super-G, 21st descent
- Pra Loup 1999 : 1st combination, 4th giant slalom, 5th Super-G, 8th downhill, 12th slalom
More Achievements
- 2 US championship titles (Slalom 2000, Super-G 2002)
- 5 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Caroline Lalive website ( Memento from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Caroline Lalive in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Caroline Lalive in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Caroline Lalive in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic ski racer Lalive officially retires. ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Steamboat Today, August 19, 2009; accessed October 4, 2012.
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| SURNAME | Lalive, Caroline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Truckee , California |