Hannah Kearney

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Hannah Kearney Freestyle skiing
Hannah Kearney
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday February 26, 1986
place of birth Hanover, NH
size 167 cm
Weight 66 kg
Career
discipline Moguls, dual moguls
society Waterville Valley BBTS
status resigned
End of career March 27, 2015
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
Junior World Championship 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Vancouver 2010 Moguls
bronze Sochi 2014 Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Ruka 2005 Moguls
bronze Inawashiro 2009 Dual moguls
silver Deer Valley 2011 Moguls
bronze Deer Valley 2011 Moguls
gold Voss 2013 Moguls
bronze Voss 2013 Moguls
gold Kreischberg 2015 Dual moguls
silver Kreischberg 2015 Moguls
Junior World ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold Marble Mountain 2003 Moguls
gold Marble Mountain 2003 Dual moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 11, 2003
 World Cup victories 46
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2013/14 ,
2014/15 )
 Mughal World Cup 1. ( 2008/09 , 2010/11, 2011/12,
2012/13 , 2013/14, 2014/15)
 Dual Moguls World Cup 6. ( 2006/07 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 29 8th 12
 Dual moguls 17th 2 3
 

Hannah Angela Kearney (born February 26, 1986 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) is a former American freestyle skier . She specializes in moguls and dual moguls ( moguls ) and is one of the world's most successful athletes in these disciplines. She was once Olympic champion, three times world champion, four times overall winner of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup and six times winner of the discipline classification. With 46 World Cup victories, she is next to Donna Weinbrecht the most successful athlete on the mogul slope.

biography

Kearney learned to ski at the age of two. In high school , she was a member of Vermont state national teams in both soccer and athletics . From December 2001 she took part in freestyle FIS races . In 2003 she won both the Moguls and the Dual Moguls Junior World Championships. It was used as an ancestor at the 2002 Winter Olympics .

Kearney made her World Cup debut on January 11, 2003 in Mont Tremblant , where she reached 26th place. Just four weeks later, she made it into the top ten for the first time in Steamboat Springs . The 2003/04 season began with a third place in Åre , which was followed by several other podiums. She achieved her first World Cup victory on February 22, 2004 in Naeba , which she followed two weeks later with a second. With that she had already established herself at the top of the world as a 17-year-old. In the 2004/05 World Cup season, Kearney was another four times on the podium, but without being able to win. The only victory of the season she achieved at the 2005 World Cup in Ruka , where she won the gold medal in the Moguls discipline.

In the 2005/06 World Cup season, Kearney won one race and stood on the podium three more times. However, the 2006 Winter Olympics ended in disappointment: due to an unclean landing, she only reached 22nd place in the qualifying round and could not make it to the final. After two third places, she had to end the 2006/07 World Cup season early after tearing the cruciate ligament in her left knee during training . Shortly after the 2007-08 season began, she suffered a concussion and was forced to take another break.

Kearney made an impressive comeback in the 2008/09 season. She won the first World Cup race after her injury break and subsequently won two more. With a total of six podium places, she won the discipline ranking ahead of Jennifer Heil and Margarita Marbler, and came second in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 World Cup in Inawashiro , she was third in the dual moguls discipline. In the 2009/10 World Cup season, Kearney won four competitions and placed third in the discipline ranking. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she won the gold medal on the moguls.

In the 2010-11 season, Kearney seemed almost unbeatable. With nine wins and a second place, she won both the overall standings and the Moguls discipline standings of the World Cup by a large margin. At the 2011 World Cup in Deer Valley , however, she had to admit defeat to her toughest rival Jennifer Heil in the Moguls competition . In the dual moguls competition she won the bronze medal. Also in the 2011/12 season, Kearney dominated the competition almost at will. She achieved eleven World Cup victories, nine of them in a row. Her worst result of the season was a fifth place. She deliberately decided both the overall World Cup and the Moguls World Cup results.

In October 2012, Kearney fell while training in Zermatt and broke two ribs. Because of this, she missed the start of the 2012/13 season. After a few weeks' delay, she tackled the 2012/13 World Cup season and celebrated six more victories. Shortly before the end of the season, she managed to overtake the previously leading Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe , whereupon she won the discipline standings for the fourth time. At the 2013 World Championships in Voss , she won the Moguls gold medal for the second time, plus the dual Moguls bronze medal.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Kearney could not repeat her success of 2010 and won the bronze medal in third place. She was more successful in the World Cup, where she fought an exciting duel with Justine Dufour-Lapointe: With a total of five wins and three further podium places, she secured the Moguls discipline ranking for the fourth time in a row and the overall World Cup ranking for the third time. At the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg , she won the dual moguls world championship title and the silver medal in the moguls competition. In the 2014/15 World Cup season, Kearney stood on the podium a total of eight times (including four times as the winner), which means she once again won the overall standings and the discipline standings. With her 46th and last World Cup victory on March 15, 2015, Kearney equalized the 18-year-old record of her compatriot Donna Weinbrecht .

After the US championships at the end of March 2015, Hannah Kearney retired from active competitive sports.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

  • Marble Mountain 2003: 1st Moguls, 1st Dual Moguls

World Cup ratings

World Cup victories

Kearney has 71 podiums to date, including 46 wins:

date place country discipline
February 22, 2004 Naeba Ski Resort Japan Moguls
March 7, 2004 Airolo Switzerland Moguls
December 14, 2005 Tignes France Moguls
December 18, 2008 Meribel France Dual moguls
January 29, 2009 Deer Valley United States Moguls
February 14, 2009 Are Sweden Dual moguls
December 12, 2009 Suomu Finland Moguls
January 21, 2010 Lake Placid United States Moguls
March 12, 2010 Are Sweden Moguls
March 13, 2010 Are Sweden Dual moguls
December 11, 2010 Ruka Finland Moguls
December 21, 2010 Beida Lake China Moguls
January 22, 2011 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 23, 2011 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 29, 2011 Calgary Canada Moguls
February 26, 2011 Mariánské Lázně Czech Republic Dual moguls
March 11, 2011 Are Sweden Moguls
March 12, 2011 Are Sweden Dual moguls
March 20, 2011 Myrdalen-Voss Norway Dual moguls
December 10, 2011 Ruka Finland Moguls
December 20, 2011 Meribel France Dual moguls
January 14, 2012 Mont Gabriel Canada Dual moguls
January 19, 2012 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 28, 2012 Calgary Canada Moguls
February 2, 2012 Deer Valley United States Moguls
4th February 2012 Deer Valley United States Dual moguls
February 12, 2012 Beida Lake China Moguls
February 18, 2012 Naeba Ski Resort Japan Moguls
March 9, 2012 Are Sweden Moguls
March 10, 2012 Are Sweden Dual moguls
17th January 2013 Lake Placid United States Moguls
1st February 2013 Deer Valley United States Moguls
February 2, 2013 Deer Valley United States Dual moguls
February 15, 2013 Sochi Russia Dual moguls
March 16, 2013 Are Sweden Dual moguls
March 25.2013 Sierra Nevada Spain Dual moguls
December 15, 2013 Ruka Finland Moguls
January 9, 2014 Deer Valley United States Moguls
January 11, 2014 Deer Valley United States Moguls
March 2, 2014 Inawashiro Japan Dual moguls
March 16, 2011 Myrdalen-Voss Norway Dual moguls
March 21, 2014 La Plagne France Dual moguls
January 3, 2015 Calgary Canada Moguls
February 15, 2015 Val Saint-Côme Canada Moguls
February 28, 2015 Tazawako Japan Moguls
March 15, 2015 Megève France Dual moguls

More Achievements

  • 3 US championship titles (2006 moguls and dual moguls, 2010 moguls)
  • 1 victory in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannah Kearney. (No longer available online.) Usskiteam.com, 2009, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; accessed on October 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freestyle.usskiteam.com
  2. ^ One step at a time. (No longer available online.) Teamusa.org, June 16, 2009, archived from the original on January 31, 2010 ; accessed on February 5, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teamusa.org
  3. ^ Kearney recovering in Swiss hospital after training crash. skiracing.com, October 7, 2012, accessed December 15, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Pat Graham: Olympic moguls skier Hannah Kearney retires. Burlington Free Press, March 17, 2015, accessed January 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kearney, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kearney, Hannah Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover, New Hampshire