Julia Ford (ski racer)
Julia Ford 
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 United States
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| birthday | 30th March 1990 (age 30) | ||||||
| place of birth | Concord, Massachusetts | ||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 75 kg | ||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super G , super combination | ||||||
| society | Holderness Ski Team | ||||||
| status | active | ||||||
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| last change: May 24, 2018 | |||||||
Julia Ford (born March 30, 1990 in Concord , Massachusetts ) is an American ski racer . It mainly starts in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines . In the 2011/12 season she won the overall ranking of the Nor-Am Cup . In the World Cup she has so far been without major success.
biography
Ford took part in FIS races for the first time in December 2005 , and from January 2007 it was also at the start in the Nor-Am Cup . After her first victories in FIS races and three national junior championship titles, she was accepted into the junior squad of the US ski association in summer 2007. On December 14th, 2008 she celebrated her first Nor-Am win in the Super Combined of Panorama , which also helped her to win the discipline classification in the 2008/09 season . In total, she made it onto the podium three times this winter, bringing her to second place in the overall standings. In the 2009/10 season she did not win, but with six podium places she again reached second place in the overall standings and also won the combined standings for the second time. After the season, she rose from the junior to the C-squad.
At Junior World Championships , in which she participated from 2008 to 2010, Ford achieved her best results in the combination formed from slalom, giant slalom and downhill. In 2009 she reached fourth place. She contested her first World Cup race on November 29, 2009: In the Aspen slalom , however, she was unable to qualify for the second run. In the Nor-Am Cup in the 2010/11 season she achieved second place in the overall standings with three wins and another five podium places, as in the last two years. In addition, she won the combined classification for the third time in a row and the downhill and Super-G classification for the first time.
On January 7, 2012, Ford won their ninth World Cup race, the downhill from Bad Kleinkirchheim , with 22nd place for the first time. She was also successful in the Nor-Am Cup: In the 2011/12 season she achieved four victories (two downhill runs and Super-G), which won her the overall standings and won the downhill standings for the second time. She achieved her best World Cup result so far on December 6, 2013 with 21st place in the downhill from Lake Louise . Despite several further attempts, she has not been able to classify herself in the World Cup points since then. Nevertheless, she qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , where she finished 24th in slalom. Ford competed in the World Cup for the last time in March 2015. Since then she has only competed in FIS races, national championships and Nor-Am races. In 2016/17 she was out of action for the entire season due to an injury, and returned to racing in December 2017.
successes
winter Olympics
- Sochi 2014 : 24th slalom
World cup
- 2 placements among the best 30
Nor-Am Cup
- Season 2008/09 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st super combination ranking, 5th downhill ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st super combination ranking, 3rd downhill ranking, 3rd Super G ranking, 10th giant slalom ranking
- 2010/11 season : 2nd overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st Super G ranking, 1st super combination ranking, 10th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2011/12 : 1st overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 3rd Super-G ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking, 6th slalom ranking
- 2013/14 season : 6th overall ranking, 4th downhill ranking, 4th super combination ranking, 5th super G ranking
- 2014/15 season : 1st downhill classification
- Season 2016/17 : 5th slalom ranking
- 28 podium places, including 10 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 14, 2008 | panorama | Canada | Super combination |
| December 9, 2010 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
| February 15, 2011 | Aspen | United States | Departure |
| March 20, 2011 | Whistler | Canada | Super G |
| February 9, 2012 | Aspen | United States | Super G |
| February 10, 2012 | Aspen | United States | Super G |
| February 13, 2012 | Aspen | United States | Departure |
| February 14, 2012 | Aspen | United States | Departure |
| 11th of February 2014 | Mont Sainte-Anne | Canada | Departure |
| December 10, 2014 | Lake Louise | Canada | Departure |
Junior World Championships
- Formigal 2008 : 12th combination, 32nd downhill, 33rd slalom, 56th giant slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 4th combination, 21st giant slalom, 26th descent, 36th slalom
- Mont Blanc 2010 : 13th combination, 22nd downhill, 25th slalom, 29th giant slalom, 38th Super-G
More Achievements
- 3 US championship titles (departure 2011, 2012, 2015)
- 3 US junior championship titles (Slalom 2006 and 2007, Super-G 2007)
- 20 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Website of Julia Ford (English)
- Julia Ford (ski racer) in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Julia Ford (ski racer) in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Portrait at the US Ski Association (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ford, Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Concord (Massachusetts) , United States |