Chip Knight
Chip Knight 
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| birthday | 11th January 1975 (age 45) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Stamford , United States | |||||||||
| size | 183 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | |||||||||
| society | Mount Mansfield Ski Club | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 2006 | |||||||||
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Howard "Chip" Knight (born January 11, 1975 in Stamford , Connecticut ) is a retired American ski racer . The slalom specialist took part in three Olympic Games and three world championships , achieved three top 10 results in the World Cup , won the overall standings of the Nor-Am Cup in the 2001/2002 season and was junior world champion in 1993 and US slalom champion in 1996 .
biography
Chip Knight grew up in New Canaan , Connecticut , and began regular ski training at the age of seven on Mount Mansfield near Stowe , Vermont, a five-hour drive away . In order to continue his athletic training, he attended the Burke Mountain Academy in Burke , Vermont. From 1995 he was a student at Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts .
After success at the Junior World Championships (victory in slalom 1993 , second place 1994 ) Knight was accepted into the team of the US Ski Association. Due to good performance in the Nor-Am Cup (overall slalom victory in the 1995/96 season ) he received a starting place at the 1996 World Cup in the Sierra Nevada , where he failed in the first slalom round. In March 1996 he became the American slalom champion. In the World Cup , Knight first won points at the beginning of the 1996/97 season when he finished 24th in the Breckenridge slalom . In January 1997 he reached two 25th places in Chamonix and Kitzbühel and 14th place in the Wengen slalom , which remained his best World Cup result for a long time. At the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere , he was eliminated in the first slalom round, as in the previous year. Although Knight remained without World Cup points throughout the 1997/98 season, he was also used at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , where he was also eliminated in the first round.
After knee surgery in the spring of 1998, Knight was mainly used in the Nor-Am Cup for the next three years, where he achieved several wins and podiums. In his few World Cup appearances during this time, he remained without points. Even when he started in the World Cup more often from the 2000/2001 season, he was initially unable to qualify for the second round in any race. It was not until January 2002 that he won World Cup points for the first time in five years with two 17th places in the slaloms in Adelboden and Wengen, which was followed a little later by a 21st place in Schladming . After these good results, Knight was also used at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , where he finished eleventh as the best of the US slalom team. He also celebrated successes in the 2001/02 season in the Nor-Am Cup with overall victory and winning the slalom and giant slalom rankings.
The 2002/03 season became Knights' most successful in the World Cup. On November 24, 2002, he finished seventh in the Park City slalom for the first time in the top 10 and three weeks later he achieved the best World Cup result of his career with sixth place in the KO slalom in Sestriere. In the further course of the season he was among the fastest 20 in four other World Cup slaloms, as well as at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , where he finished eleventh. The next winter Knight achieved four top 20 results in World Cup slaloms, with a tenth place in Madonna di Campiglio being his best result of the season. In the winter of 2004/05 , in contrast to previous years, he was only able to qualify for a second round twice, which is why he was not used at the 2005 World Cup. After he was also unsuccessful in the first World Cup races of the next season , he was able to score points in a World Cup giant slalom for the first and only time in January 2006, initially with rank 18 in Adelboden. He then achieved three top 20 results in slalom with places 17 in Adelboden, 20 in Kitzbühel and 19 in Schladming, thus fulfilling the standard of the US Association for a nomination for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . At his third and final Olympic Games, Knight finished 18th in slalom. After the 2005/2006 season he ended his career at the age of 31.
successes
winter Olympics
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 11th slalom
- Turin 2006 : 18th slalom
World championships
- St. Moritz 2003 : 11th slalom
World cup
- 3 placements among the top ten
Nor-Am Cup
- Overall victory in the 2001/02 season
- Victory in the slalom classification in the 1995/96 , 2001/02 and 2004/05 seasons
- Victory in the giant slalom classification in the 2001/2002 season
Junior World Championships
- Monte Campione 1993 : 1st slalom, 19th giant slalom
- Lake Placid 1994 : 2nd slalom, 21st giant slalom
American championships
- American slalom champion in 1996
Web links
- Website Chip Knight (English)
- Chip Knight in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Chip Knight in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Chip Knight in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Eph Chip Knight to compete at Nagano. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. The Williams Record, February 17, 1998, accessed November 10, 2011.
- ^ Chip Knight represents Williams, US at Winter Games. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. The Williams Record, February 12, 2002, accessed November 10, 2011.
- ↑ US Ski Team: The Next Generation. Special '98 -'99 Season Preview. MountainZone.com, accessed November 10, 2011.
- ↑ EPHS Chip Knight Headed to Third Straight Olympiad With US Alpine Ski Team. Williams College Sports Information, January 31, 2006, accessed November 10, 2011.
- ^ The anti-Bode. Knight scraped, persevered in a long journey to Turin. ( Memento of January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Sports Illustrated, February 24, 2006, accessed November 10, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Knight, Chip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knight, Howard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stamford (Connecticut) , United States |