Georgia Simmerling
Georgia Simmerling  
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| birthday | 11th March 1989 (age 31) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Vancouver , Canada | ||||||||
| size | 172 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg | ||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom (Alpine skiing), Skicross (freestyle) |
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| society | Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2018 | ||||||||
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Georgia Simmerling (born March 11, 1989 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian freestyle skier in the discipline of ski cross , former alpine ski racer in the disciplines of downhill and super-G, as well as a cyclist .
biography
Alpine skiing and ski cross
Simmerling comes from West Vancouver ( British Columbia ) and started in 2004 FIS races . In the Nor-Am Cup they went from the 2005/06 season, initially mainly in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom . However, Simmerling achieved her greatest successes in downhill and super-G . In the 2008/09 season she made a total of four podiums in these two disciplines. In the 2009/10 season she achieved as many podiums, one in each discipline, except the slalom. With a further four fourth places, she reached fourth place in the overall ranking, second place in the Super-G ranking and, as in the previous year, second place in the downhill ranking. In the 2010/11 season she achieved third place in the Nor-Am downhill classification with a win in Aspen .
On December 7, 2008, Simmerling made her World Cup debut at the Super-G of Lake Louise . A year later she won the first and only World Cup points in this Super-G with rank 29. In late January 2010 she was nominated for the Olympic Games in Vancouver. Before the treacherous Olympic downhill run in Whistler-Blackcomb , the Simmerling Association withdrew due to a lack of training runs, and on the combined downhill run the following day she was unable to start due to a slight injury. In the Super-G she made her Olympic debut and finished 27th.
In the winter of 2010/11, Simmerling won a downhill run in the Nor-Am-Cup and achieved another podium in the same discipline. She then decided to switch to the freestylers and start in the ski cross discipline in the future. She made her debut in the Freestyle World Cup on December 17, 2011 in Innichen , where she finished 13th. She also achieved her first podium in San Candido when she came second on December 23, 2012. In the 2013/14 World Cup season , two third places were added. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Simmerling finished 14th. In the 2014/15 season , she achieved second place twice in the World Cup.
In November 2016, Simmerling established itself in the extended world elite in ski cross. In the 2016/17 World Cup season she came second and third. There were also six other top 10 placements. It was similarly successful at the beginning of the 2017/18 World Cup season with again a second and third place as well as five other results among the top ten. During the race in Nakiska on January 20, 2018, she fell badly and suffered fractures in both legs, which made it impossible for her to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. In May 2018 she announced that she would retire from skiing and focus on cycling in the future.
Track cycling
Cycling
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| Date of birth | March 11, 1989 |
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Canada
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| discipline | Train (endurance) |
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| Last updated: May 4, 2020 | |
At the Freestyle World Championships in 2015 on Kreischberg , Simmerling suffered a broken wrist and had to end the season prematurely. Just one week after the operation, she started training for track cycling in the team pursuit discipline , as she wanted to take part in the 2016 Summer Olympics . In mid-January 2016, she made her debut in the Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong , where her team won straight away. The 2016 UCI Track World Championships followed in London at the beginning of March , where she won the silver medal. With these successes she made the nomination for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There she won the bronze medal together with Laura Brown , Kirsti Lay , Jasmin Glaesser and Allison Beveridge .
In 2019 Georgia Simmerling was two-time Pan American champion, in one-time and with Annie Foreman-Mackey , Ariane Bonhomme and Allison Beveridge in the team pursuit . In the single pursuit, she also became a national champion.
Private life
Simmerling is the partner of Stephanie Labbé , the goalkeeper of the Canadian national soccer team ( as of 2018 ).
successes
Ski cross
- Olympic games
- Sochi 2014 : 14th ski cross
- World championships
- Voss 2013 : 13th ski cross
- Kreischberg 2015 : 26th ski cross
- World cup
- 9 podium places
- World Cup ratings
| season | total | Ski cross | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2011/12 | 109. | 5 | 29 | 49 |
| 2012/13 | 38. | 30th | 8th. | 295 |
| 2013/14 | 24. | 33 | 6th | 364 |
| 2014/15 | 54. | 18.64 | 14th | 205 |
| 2016/17 | 47. | 27.69 | 11. | 360 |
| 2017/18 | 22nd | 37.30 | 6th | 373 |
Alpine skiing
- winter Olympics
- Vancouver 2010 : 27th Super-G
- Junior World Championships
- Formigal 2008 : 34th Super-G, 38th giant slalom, 40th descent
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 38th Super-G, 40th giant slalom
- World cup
- 1 place in the top 30
- Nor-Am Cup
- 2007/08 season : 6th overall ranking, 6th downhill ranking, 6th Super-G ranking, 5th combined ranking
- Season 2008/09 : 7th overall ranking, 2nd downhill ranking, 5th Super-G ranking, 9th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 4th overall ranking, 2nd downhill ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking, 6th giant slalom ranking, 6th combined ranking
- 2010/11 season : 3rd downhill classification
- 10 podium places, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 14, 2011 | Aspen | United States | Departure |
- More Achievements
- 3 wins in the South American Cup
- 3 victories in FIS races
Cycling
- 2015
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Canadian Champion - Team Pursuit (with Laura Brown , Stephanie Roorda and Jasmin Glaesser )
- 2016
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Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Laura Brown, Kirsti Lay , Jasmin Glaesser and Allison Beveridge ) -
Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong - team pursuit with (Laura Brown, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Stephanie Roorda) -
Track World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Allison Beveridge , Kirsti Lay and Jasmin Duehring )
- 2019
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Pan American Champion - Single Pursuit, Team Pursuit (with Annie Foreman-Mackey , Ariane Bonhomme and Allison Beveridge ) -
Canadian Master - One Pursuit
Web links
- Website of Georgia Simmerling (English)
- Georgia Simmerling in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Freestyle)
- Georgia Simmerling in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Alpine skiing)
- Georgia Simmerling in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Georgia Simmerling in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Georgia Simmerling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canada's Simmerling undergoes surgery after breaking both legs in ski cross crash. CBC Sports , January 22, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 .
- ^ Olympian Simmerling retires from skiing, will continue cycling. In: montrealgazette.com. Accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Georgia Simmerling. Canadian Olympic Team, accessed February 7, 2018 .
- ↑ l-mag.de: These are the lesbian and bisexual Olympians in PyeongChang , February 11, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Simmerling, Georgia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian freestyle skier, ski racer and cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , Canada |