Finlay Mickel
Finlay Mickel 
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 United Kingdom
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| birthday | 6th December 1977 (age 42) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Edinburgh , UK | ||||||||
| size | 189 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super-G | ||||||||
| society | Scottish Ski Club | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2009 | ||||||||
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Finlay Mickel (born December 6, 1977 in Edinburgh ) is a retired British ski racer . He specialized in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines and was particularly successful in downhill. In this discipline he achieved eleventh place at the 2005 World Cup and nine top 20 placements in the World Cup , including a tenth place in the Lauberhorn downhill run in 2006.
biography
Mickel started skiing at the age of two and a half. At the age of nine he became a member of the Scottish Ski Club , where he started training regularly. At the age of 14 he moved to the USA and attended the Green Mountain Valley School in Waitsfield , Vermont , in order to devote himself even more to skiing. After two years in the Scottish ski team, he was accepted into the British Alpine Ski Team in 1996 .
After several top 10 placements in FIS races , but not yet successful in the European Cup , Mickel won his first British championship title in January 2000. Shortly afterwards, he was also among the top ten in the European Cup for the first time. In November 2000, Mickel made his World Cup debut in Lake Louise . He won his first World Cup points a year later as the 25th downhill from Val-d'Isère . At his first World Championship in 2001 in St. Anton am Arlberg , he was 35th in the Super-G and retired in the downhill. Two years later, at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, 24th place in the combination was his best result.
After Mickel had only rarely scored in the World Cup at first and had no World Cup points at all in the 2003/04 season, he succeeded in joining the expanded world elite in the 2004/05 season . This winter he drove in four World Cup descents among the fastest 20 and reached eleventh place in the downhill and 23rd place in the Super-G at the 2005 World Cup in Bormio . In the next winter he again achieved four top 20 placements in World Cup runs and with tenth place in the Lauberhorn run in Wengen, the best World Cup result of his career. This made him the fourth British ski racer, after Konrad Bartelski and Martin and Graham Bell , to achieve a top 10 placement in a World Cup run. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he was 22nd in the Super-G and 25th in the downhill. In the 2006/07 season Mickel only finished 13th in the downhill run on the Saslong in Val Gardena, among the fastest 20. At the 2007 World Cup in Åre , he finished 26th in the downhill and was eliminated in the Super-G.
The last two years of his career were overshadowed by several injuries. After two ankle injuries in the summer of 2007, he retired in the same year on December 3 in a fall in the World Cup Super-G on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek an ankle fracture to, after he was sidelined five weeks. A year later Mickel suffered a shin fracture again in Beaver Creek in a fall during the first training session for the World Cup descent . After this injury Mickel did not return to the World Cup. He ended his career in March / April 2009 by participating in the British Championships. He secured the championship title in the downhill for the sixth time. Mickel had won a total of 15 British championship titles. In addition to the six downhill titles, he won five times in the Super-G, three times in the combination and once in the giant slalom.
successes
winter Olympics
- Turin 2006 : 22nd Super-G, 25th Downhill
World championships
- St. Anton 2001 : 35th Super-G
- St. Moritz 2003 : 24th combination, 29th Super-G, 33rd downhill
- Bormio 2005 : 11th Downhill, 23rd Super-G
- Åre 2007 : 26th departure
World cup
- One top 10 placement and another nine top 20 placements (all in the downhill)
Junior World Championships
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 50th descent, 50th Super-G
British Championships
- Mickel is 15 times British champion:
- 6 × downhill (2003-2007 and 2009)
- 5 × Super-G (2000-2004)
- 1 × giant slalom (2002)
- 3 × combination (2000, 2002 and 2005)
More Achievements
- 1 victory in the European Cup (departure in Roccaraso on March 11, 2005)
- 1 victory in the South American Cup
- 1 victory in FIS races (from 1994/95)
Web links
- Finlay Mickel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Finlay Mickel in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Finlay Mickel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Finlay Mickel looks to Norwegian slopes for his redemption. The Sunday Times , February 28, 2008, accessed May 10, 2011.
- ^ A b British Championships Trophy Winners. ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) www.britski.org, accessed on May 10, 2011 (PDF, 29 kB, English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mickel, Finlay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |