Emily Brydon
Emily Brydon 
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| birthday | 27th April 1980 (age 40) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Fernie , Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 185 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | Fernie Snow Valley Ski Club | ||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | March 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
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Emily Brydon (born April 27, 1980 in Fernie , British Columbia ) is a former Canadian ski racer .
biography
Brydon was considered a speed specialist, but also launched several times in World Cup - Slalom and World Cup giant slalom . She is ten-time Canadian champion (3 × downhill , 4 × super-G , 1 × slalom and 2 × combination ). With a height of 1.85 m, she was one of the tallest women and the best gliders in the Alpine Ski World Cup.
In the Nor-Am Cup she had her breakthrough in the 1997/98 season , when she won the overall standings, the downhill standings and the Super-G ratings with four wins and another five podium places. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in the Canadian province of Québec , she was world champion in the combined and second in the slalom behind the Swede Anja Pärson .
From November 1998 Brydon started in the Ski World Cup. She achieved her first podium finish as third on the downhill from St. Moritz on December 16, 2000. She did not achieve the next podium place until February 2005. In 2002 she competed at the Winter Olympics for the first time , but without great success, in slalom she finished 27th , ranked 38th in the giant slalom. At the 2006 Winter Olympics , she was ninth in the Super-G, 13th in the combination and 20th in the downhill. At her last major event, the 2010 Winter Olympics , she was 14th in the super combined and 16th in the downhill.
Brydon took part in five Alpine World Ski Championships from 2001 to 2009 . She achieved the best single placement in 2001 in St. Anton with a seventh place in the combination. In the team competition , she and her teammates achieved fifth place in 2005 and sixth in 2007 .
In the World Cup, Brydon achieved a total of nine podium places in her career, five times in the downhill, three times in the Super-G and once in the combination. She celebrated her only World Cup victory on February 3, 2008 in the Super-G in St. Moritz. In the 2004/05 season she was third in the combined World Cup behind Janica Kostelić and Anja Pärson, in the 2007/08 season she achieved fifth place in the Super G World Cup and with 14th place her best result in the overall World Cup. In her last season, 2009/10 , she was sixth in the Downhill World Cup. At the 2009/10 World Cup finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Brydon announced her retirement at the end of the season. The Super-G on March 12th, in which she finished 15th and scored again, was her last World Cup appearance. She contested her last race at the end of March 2010 at the Canadian Championships, where she won her tenth national title in the Super-G.
Brydon is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .
successes
Olympic games
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 27th slalom, 38th giant slalom
- Turin 2006 : 9th Super-G, 13th combination, 20th downhill
- Vancouver 2010 : 14th super combination, 16th downhill
World championships
- St. Anton 2001 : 7th combination, 12th super-G
- St. Moritz 2003 : 11th combination, 18th descent, 20th slalom, 23rd Super-G, 24th giant slalom
- Santa Caterina 2005 : 11th downhill, 13th combination, 21st Super-G, 5th team competition
- Åre 2007 : 10th super combined, 13th super G, 24th downhill, 34th slalom, 6th team competition
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 11th downhill, 13th Super-G
World cup
- Season 2004/05 : 3. Combined World Cup
- Season 2006/07 : 10. Combined World Cup
- Season 2007/08 : 5. Super-G World Cup 10 World Cup downhill
- Season 2009/10 : 6th Downhill World Cup, 10th Combination World Cup
- 9 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 3, 2008 | St. Moritz | Switzerland | Super G |
Nor-Am Cup
- 1997/98 season . 1st overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st Super-G ranking
- 1998/99 season : 8th giant slalom ranking
- 1999/00 season : 3rd overall ranking, 3rd downhill ranking, 3rd slalom ranking, 3rd Super-G ranking
- 2004/05 season : 8th downhill classification
- 19 podium places, including 12 wins
European Cup
- 4 podium places, including 2 wins
Junior World Championships
- Megève 1998 : 5th downhill, 14th Super-G, 19th slalom, 24th giant slalom
- Pra Loup 1999 : 11th Super-G, 15th slalom, 22nd descent
- Québec 2000 : 1st combination, 2nd slalom, 6th Super-G, 7th downhill, 8th giant slalom
More Achievements
- 10 Canadian championship titles :
- 3 × downhill (1999, 2004 and 2005)
- 4 × Super-G (1998, 2004, 2005 and 2010)
- 1 × slalom (2005)
- 2 × combination (2004 and 2005)
- 19 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Emily Brydon in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Emily Brydon in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Emily Brydon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Emily Brydon on skiinfo.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ After 13 years, Canadian ski racer Emily Brydon says goodbye www.theskichannel.com, March 25, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2010 (English)
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| SURNAME | Brydon, Emily |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fernie , British Columbia |