Greg Swor
Greg Swor 
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| Full name | Gregory Samuel Swor | |||||||||
| nation |
 United States
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| birthday | April 19, 1951 | |||||||||
| place of birth |
Fargo , United States
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| size | 170 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg | |||||||||
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| society | Duluth XC Ski Club | |||||||||
| National squad | since 1969 | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 1975 | |||||||||
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| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 21st ( 1970/71 ) | |||||||||
Gregory Samuel "Greg" Swor (born April 19, 1951 in Fargo ) is a former American ski jumper .
Career
Swor celebrated his first successes at national level. At the US Junior Championships in Brattleboro in 1969 , he won the title in individual jumping. Then he received a national team starting place for the first time in the Four Hills Tournament 1969/70 . However, he fell short of expectations in all competitions and achieved his best result on the tour with rank 41 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the overall standings, Swor came in 39th with 761.5 points.
At the following US championships in 1970 in Eau Claire on Silver Mine Hill , he won the bronze medal in singles when Bill Bakke won. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1970 in Štrbské Pleso he came 26th from the large hill after jumps on 88 and 98 meters. On the normal hill he reached rank 24 with jumps on 77.5 and 76 meters. In the same year Swor jumped 105.2 meters on Bakke Hill in Leavenworth , a new hill record that lasted until the hill was demolished.
In his second and last Four Hills Tournament in 1970/71 , he managed a significant improvement over the previous year. Although Swor landed on 44th place in the opening competition on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf , he was able to jump to 15th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck he achieved the best single tour result of his career with the 14th place. After jumping into the top 30 with 27th place in the final competition on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen , he finished the tour in 21st place overall.
Swor's last international tournament started at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo . He jumped from the normal hill to rank 50 and from the large hill to rank 30.
In 1975 he officially resigned from skiing for family reasons.
successes
Four Hills Tournament placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1969/70 | 39. | 761.5 |
| 1970/71 | 21st | 821.7 |
literature
- Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 , p. 1 .
Web links
- Greg Swor in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Greg Swor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Greg Swor on The-Sports.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b United States National Ski Jumping Champions 1904-1980 ( English ) SkijumpEast. Archived from the original on March 17th, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 163
- ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 164
- ↑ Bakke Hill on Skisprungschanzen.com
- ↑ Ski Jumper Swor Resigns (English) . In: The Milwaukee Journal , Oct 8, 1975, p. 16. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Swor, Greg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swor, Gregory Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fargo , North Dakota , United States |