Greg Jones (ski racer)

Greg Jones
nation	United States
birthday	3rd December 1953 (age 66)
place of birth	Tahoe City , United States
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1977
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Innsbruck 1976 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1974  Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 18th ( 1975/76 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 6. (1975/76)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 1 1 0

Gregory ("Greg") Francis Jones (born December 3, 1953 in Tahoe City , California ) is a retired American ski racer . He specialized in the giant slalom and downhill disciplines.

biography

In 1973 Jones was accepted into the ski team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association , from 1974 he participated in world cup races . He scored his first World Cup points on December 18, 1974 at the 3-Tre races in Madonna di Campiglio , when he surprisingly finished second in the giant slalom behind the Italian Piero Gros . His second best result in the 1974/75 season was a fourth place.

Jones' most successful season was the winter of 1975/76 . He was able to classify himself in the top five three times, winning the giant slalom in Copper Mountain on March 5, 1976 . At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , Jones was ninth in giant slalom, eleventh in downhill and 19th in slalom . Taken together, this resulted in third place in the combined ranking. However, since this was not part of the official Olympic program, he received a bronze world championship medal. In the same season he also won the US downhill title.

In the winter of 1976/77 , Jones could no longer maintain this high level. His only top 10 classification was 9th place in the Hahnenkamm combination in Kitzbühel . At the end of the season he resigned from top-class sport.

successes

Olympic games

• Innsbruck 1976 : 9th giant slalom, 11th descent, 19th slalom

World championships

• St. Moritz 1974 : 16th downhill, 17th giant slalom
• Innsbruck 1976 : 3rd combination

World cup

• Season 1974/75 : 6. Giant Slalom Score
• Season 1975/76 : 8 Giant Slalom Score
• 8 placements among the top ten
• 2 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
March 5th 1976	Copper Mountain	United States	Giant slalom

Others

• American downhill champion in 1976

Web links

• Greg Jones in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Greg Jones in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Greg Jones in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Entry into the US Ski Hall of Fame