Holly Flanders
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Full name | Holly Beth Flanders | ||||||||||||
nation | United States | ||||||||||||
birthday | 26th December 1957 (age 62) | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Arlington , United States | ||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||
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discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||
End of career | 1986 | ||||||||||||
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Holly Beth Flanders (born December 26, 1957 in Arlington , Massachusetts ) is a former American ski racer .
Flanders won three downhill races in the World Cup in her career : in 1982 the first of the two double downhill runs in Bad Gastein ( silver jug race ) and Arosa and in 1984 the first downhill run from Mont Sainte-Anne . In the downhill she took part in the Olympic Winter Games twice: in 1980 she reached 14th place in Lake Placid and in 1984 she achieved 16th place in Sarajevo . She won the downhill twice at the US championships. Flanders ended her career in 1986 with an 11th place in Vail .
Flanders is the wife of football player Todd Schlopy and the mother of freestyle skier Alex Schlopy .
World Cup victories
date | place | country | discipline |
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January 18, 1982 | Bad Gastein | Austria | Departure |
February 13, 1982 | Arosa | Switzerland | Departure |
March 3, 1984 | Mont Sainte-Anne | Canada | Departure |
Web links
- Holly Flanders in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Holly Flanders in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Holly Flanders in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Flanders, Holly |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flanders, Holly Beth (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Arlington, Massachusetts , United States |