Casey Colby

Casey Colby
nation	United States
birthday	3rd November 1974
place of birth	Lake Placid ,  United States
size	180 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
National squad	since 1994
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	February 17, 1996
Overall World Cup	75th ( 1997/98 )
Jump World Cup	71. (1997/98)

Casey Colby (born November 3, 1974 in Lake Placid , New York ) is a retired American ski jumper .

Career

Colby was part of the US national team from 1994 and initially jumped in the Continental Cup . After he was able to steadily improve his performance in his second season, he was nominated for the first competition in the ski jumping World Cup in 1996. He competed in his first jumping on February 17, 1996 in Iron Mountain . However, he was unsuccessful in the first two competitions and was only able to win his first World Cup points with an 11th place in Oslo in May .

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Colby came 42nd on the normal hill and 30th on the large hill. In team jumping he reached 12th place with Mike Keuler , Alan Alborn and Randy Weber .

After the Games Colby denied on 11 March 1998, or a World Cup competition in the Swedish Falun , which he finished in 22nd position, which in the points. At the end of the 1997/98 season he was in 75th place in the overall World Cup ranking.

Colby competed in jumping in the Continental Cup until 2002 , before he ended his active ski jumping career in 2002 due to a lack of success.

Web links

• Casey Colby in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Casey Colby in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United States Ski Jumping at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 26, 2009.