Chad Fleischer
Chad Fleischer 
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| birthday | 4th January 1972 (age 48) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Columbus , United States | ||||||||
| size | 185 cm | ||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super-G | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2003 | ||||||||
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Chad Fleischer (born January 4, 1972 in Columbus , Nebraska ) is a retired American ski racer. He is a two-time American downhill champion and was sixth in the 1999 World Championship.
biography
Butcher is originally from Nebraska. After his family moved to Vail , he started skiing at the age of ten. He landed his first success in 1991 when he was 13th in the downhill at the Junior World Championships in Geilo, Norway . In 1993 he made the leap to the US national ski team, of which he was a member until 2003.
Between December 1993 and December 2001, Fleischer competed in more than 90 world cup races . Overall, he was able to place in the top ten five times. He achieved the best result on March 10, 1999 with a second place in the downhill in the Sierra Nevada . In the end he was only 16 hundredths behind the Norwegian Lasse Kjus .
He also celebrated his most important international success in 1999 at the World Ski Championships in Vail. With the bonus of the local favorite, he finished sixth in the Super-G in one of the tightest races in World Cup history. Fleischer took part in the Olympic Games twice: 1994 in Lillehammer and 1998 in Nagano . Both times, however, without any significant success.
The premature end of his career came on January 10, 2002. During a training run for the Lauberhorn race in Wengen , Fleischer tore all the ligaments and tendons in his right knee. Despite several operations, the knee was no longer fully resilient. Thereupon he announced his retirement from active ski racing on September 30, 2003.
Fleischer now lives with his wife Renee on a ranch outside of Steamboat Springs .
successes
American champion
- Departure: 1996, 1999
Web links
- Chad Fleischer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Chad Fleischer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Chad Fleischer in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Butcher, Chad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Columbus, Nebraska |