Dara Howell

Dara Howell
nation	Canada
birthday	August 25, 1994
place of birth	Huntsville , Ontario ,  Canada
size	168 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
discipline	Slopestyle
society	Muskoka Ski Club
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 Slopestyle  Freestyle Skiing World Championships silver Voss 2013 Slopestyle  X-Games bronze Tignes 2012 Slopestyle bronze Aspen 2013 Slopestyle bronze Tignes 2013 Slopestyle
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup December 9, 2011  World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 19. ( 2013/14 )  Slopestyle World Cup 3. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14)  Big Air World Cup 5. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Slopestyle 1 2 1  Big Air 1 0 0
last change: November 6, 2018

Dara Howell (born August 23, 1994 in Huntsville , Ontario ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . She has been the first female Olympic champion in ski slopestyle since February 11, 2014 .

biography

Howell was born in Huntsville , Ontario . She attended Huntsville High School in her hometown for four years before starting distance learning at Tawingo College in the fall of 2012 .

Athletic career

Howell has been part of the Muskoka Ski Club on the Hidden Valley Highlands in Huntsville, Ontario since winter 2010 . Previously, she was part of the cross-country skiing team at Arrowhead Nordic Ski Club at Shaw Lake , Muskoka .

She made her slopestyle debut for the Muskoka Ski Club at the national championships in March 2011 at the US Stratton Mountain Ski Resort in Vermont . Nine months later in December 2011, she also made her World Cup debut at Copper Mountain in Summit County , Colorado . The first success followed, in which she won the silver medal at the X-Games in Tignes, France in March 2012. Howell won the bronze medal at the X-Games in January 2013 in Aspen , Colorado and in March 2013 in Tignes, France. She won the silver medal at the 2013 Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Voss , Norway . She finished 2013 with 30th place in the overall ranking.

At the age of 19, she took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014 , where she won the gold medal in the women's ski slopestyle competition . She dedicated the Olympic victory to her compatriot Sarah Burke , who died in 2012 . Her victory was overshadowed by the severe fall of her compatriot and native Japanese Yuki Tsubota , who broke her jaw .

successes

Olympic games

• Sochi 2014 : 1st slopestyle

World championships

• Inawashiro 2009 : 2nd Slopestyle

More Achievements

• Best overall ranking: 30. (in 2013.)
• Best place in slopestyle: 2nd (in 2013.)
• 4 podiums and 1 win (Copper Mountain 2013)
• Gold FIS US Grand Prix Slopestyle World Cup 2013
• Bronze US Freeskiing Grand Prix in Park City, Utah

Web links

• Dara Howell in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dara Howell wins gold, Kim Lamarre bronze in ski slopestyle . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
2. ↑ Dara Howell . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
3. ↑ Dara Howell - Virtual Learning Center ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 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.  
4. ↑ Midnight start won't stop Huntsville from cheering on Dara Howell . Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. 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. Retrieved February 11, 2014. 
5. ↑ Interim Results Grade 5/6 Girls . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
6. ↑ Winter X Games Aspen 2012 - Final Results . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
7. ↑ Women's Snowboard Slopestyle - Results - Winter X Games 2013 . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
8. ↑ 17-åring falt, men vant gull i X-Games (Norwegian) . In: Aftenposten , January 28, 2013. 
9. ↑ Dara HOWELL . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
10. ↑ Canada's Dara Howell wins gold, Kim Lamarre bronze in slopestyle skiing . Retrieved on February 11, 2014.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Dara Howell dedicates gold to the late Sarah Burke . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
12. ↑ Olympic Winter Games: Horror fall in skiing freestyle: Canadian Tsubota in the clinic . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
13. ↑ Ontario's Howell Wins Gold in Copper Mountain, Colorado . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
14. ^ Two Medals in Two Days For Ontario's Howell