Chris McNeill

Chris McNeill
Full name	Christopher Robert McNeill
nation	United States
birthday	November 20, 1954
place of birth	Pueblo , Colorado ,  USA
size	183 cm
Weight	77 kg
date of death	February 5, 2011
Place of death	Steamboat Springs , Colorado ,  USA
Career
society	Steamboat Springs WSC
National squad	since 1972
End of career	1980
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
Four Hills Tournament	42nd ( 1976/77 )

Christopher Robert "Chris" McNeill (born November 20, 1954 in Pueblo , Colorado , † February 5, 2011 in Steamboat Springs ) was an American ski jumper .

Career

McNeill, who grew up in Steamboat Springs, was American Junior Champion in 1972 and was accepted into the US national team a short time later. In the Four Hills Tournament 1972/73 he reached 79th place in the opening competition in Oberstdorf . He achieved the best individual result of the tour with rank 58 in Innsbruck . In the overall standings, he landed on 77th place. In the Four Hills Tournament 1975/76 he was able to improve slightly, so that he completed the tour as 68th. He got a starting place for the 1976 Winter Olympics , but was not used as a substitute.

McNeill began his most successful Four Hills Tournament in 1976/77 with rank 40 on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf, which was subsequently the best individual result in a Four Hills Tournament. In the other competitions he could not build on that and finished the tour in 42nd place overall.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1978 , he started in all three jumping competitions. From the normal hill, McNeill landed in 33rd place after jumps on 75 and 77 meters. From the large hill he landed at 79 and 89.5 meters and thus reached 49th place. Together with Jeff Denney , Jeff Davis and Jim Denney , he finished 10th and last place in team jumping .

At the 1979 Olympic dress rehearsal in Lake Placid , he won the normal hill. He also finished third in the US championships shortly thereafter.

On December 30, 1979 McNeill gave his debut in the ski jumping World Cup as part of the Four Hills Tournament 1979/80 . However, he was only on the lower ranks in all jumping classes. At the 1980 Winter Olympics , he went to the start anyway. In his last international competition, he only jumped from the normal hill and achieved 23rd place.

After his active career, McNeill worked as a trainer and in 1986 got a job at Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. He did this until his death on February 5, 2011. McNeill died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism on his way to the hospital during the Winter Carnival Street Festival in Steamboat Springs after his brother-in-law called an ambulance due to McNeill's poor health.

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1972/73	77.	579.2
1975/76	68.	577.7
1976/77	42.	684.4
1979/80	92.	296.5

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .

Web links

• Chris McNeill in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Chris McNeill in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Chris McNeill on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 168
2. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 167
3. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 169
4. ^ John F. Russell: Steamboat resident McNeill lived life to fullest ( English ) Steamboat Today. February 8, 2011. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 27, 2013.