Jonna Mendes
Jonna Mendes 
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| birthday | 31st March 1979 (age 41) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Santa Cruz , United States | |||||||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super-G | |||||||||||||||
| society | Heavenly Ski Club | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2006 | |||||||||||||||
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Jonna Mendes (born March 31, 1979 in Santa Cruz , California ) is a former American ski racer . She specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. Mendes won the bronze medal in Super-G at the 2003 World Cup and achieved two fifth places in the World Cup as the best results.
biography
After several victories in FIS races and podium places in the Nor-Am Cup as well as a fourth place in the Super-G at the Junior World Championships in 1997 , Jonna Mendes came to her first World Cup appearance on March 7, 1997 in the Super-G at Mammoth Mountain . She won her first World Cup points in December of the same year with a 26th place in the Super-G of Lake Louise . She did not reach any top World Cup placements for the next two years. Mendes was more successful at this time in the Nor-Am Cup, where she celebrated her first victories in December 1997, and at the Junior World Championships, where she won the silver medal in the downhill in 1998 and 1999 . Mendes also showed good performances at her first Olympic Winter Games in 1998 in Nagano with 14th place in the combination and 17th place in the downhill as well as at her first World Championship in 1999 in Vail / Beaver Creek with tenth place in the combination. She had not yet been able to show such results in the World Cup.
After Mendes was among the fastest 15 in a World Cup race for the first time in December 1999, she achieved her first top 10 results in November / December 2000 with places ten and six in the two runs from Lake Louise. However, she was unable to stay in the top ranks consistently for the next two years. At the 2001 World Cup she reached 9th place in the combination, 18th place in the Super-G and 20th place in the downhill. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was 11th in the downhill and 16th in the Super-G.
The 2002/03 season was the most successful for the then 23-year-old. She achieved relatively consistently good results for the only time during a whole winter and drove in the World Cup in six races (four times Super-G and twice Downhill) under the top ten, with fifth place in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo, her best result scored. She was 13th in the Super G World Cup and 16th in the Downhill World Cup - both as the second-best American woman behind Kirsten Clark . Mendes celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , when she won the bronze medal in the Super-G behind the Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister and Kirsten Clark. In addition, she was sixth in the downhill.
In December 2003, Mendes again achieved fifth place in the St. Moritz World Cup run. After that, however, their results deteriorated noticeably. In the winter of 2003/04 she was not among the fastest 20 in any other race, in the 2004/05 World Cup season she achieved at least two 15th places in the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo and in the downhill from San Sicario . Mendes was again better than in the World Cup at the highlight of the season, the 2005 World Cup in Bormio . There she finished twelfth in the downhill. This world championship remained their last major event, because in the 2005/06 season Mendes could only score twice in the World Cup, which was not enough for a call-up to the US team for the 2006 Olympic Games. After the 2005/2006 season, Mendes gave her Resignation from ski racing known.
successes
winter Olympics
- Nagano 1998 : 14th combination, 17th downhill, 32nd Super-G
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 11th Downhill, 16th Super-G
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 10th combination, 25th downhill, 26th super-G
- St. Anton 2001 : 9th combination, 18th Super-G, 20th descent
- St. Moritz 2003 : 3rd Super-G, 6th downhill
- Bormio 2005 : 12th descent
World cup
- Two fifth places and another eight places among the top ten
Nor-Am Cup
- 16 podium places, including 6 wins
Junior World Championships
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 9th descent, 24th giant slalom, 25th Super-G
- Schladming 1997 : 4th Super-G, 7th giant slalom
- Megève 1998 : 2nd downhill, 8th giant slalom, 13th Super-G, 43rd slalom
- Pra Loup 1999 : 2nd descent, 4th Super-G, 12th giant slalom, 35th slalom
American championships
- 4 US championship titles (giant slalom 2001 and 2002, downhill 2004 and 2005)
Web links
- Jonna Mendes in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Jonna Mendes in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Jonna Mendes in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait on magazin.skiinfo.de
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| SURNAME | Mendes, Jonna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Cruz (California) , United States |