Divina Galica

Divina Galica
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	13th August 1944 (age 76)
place of birth	Bushey Heath , United Kingdom
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1968  Overall World Cup 11th ( 1968 )  Downhill World Cup 6th (1968)  Giant Slalom World Cup 10. (1968)  Slalom World Cup 27. ( 1969/70 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 0 2

Divina Mary Galica (born August 13, 1944 in Bushey Heath , Hertfordshire , England ) is a former British athlete. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she was the most successful female ski racer in Great Britain. She then started a successful career as a racing driver .

biography

Galica first took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 at the age of 19 . The breakthrough to the expanded world class came four years later. Between 1968 and 1971 she was among the top ten in 15 World Cup races , almost all of them downhill and giant slalom. She made it onto the podium twice with third places. With an eighth place in the giant slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and a seventh in the giant slalom in Sapporo in 1972, she consolidated her position as one of the most successful runners in the history of British skiing.

Divina Galica in a Brabham BT37 (2009)

Shortly after retiring from the British national ski team, Galica was invited to a celebrity car race. Her obvious talent led her to develop a second career as a motor sportsperson. Galica competed in various kart , sports car and truck races. In 1976 she even made her Formula 1 debut as the fourth driver of the British Surtees - Ford team at the British Grand Prix , but failed in qualifying. Two more attempts followed in 1978 as a driver in the team of the eccentric Lord Alexander Hesketh . After two missed qualifications at the start of the season, she was replaced by Eddie Cheever .

Today Galica works as vice-president of the former Formula 1 driver Skip Barber launched Racing School . Because of her sporting success she was accepted into the Order of the British Empire .

statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1981	Kent Racing	Mazda RX-7	Kathy Rude	failure	malfunction

Web links

• Divina Galica in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Divina Galica in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Divina Galica in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )