Julia Mancuso

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Julia Mancuso Alpine skiing
Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso in January 2011
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 9th March 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Reno ,  United States
size 167 cm
Weight 64 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Squaw Valley Ski Team
status resigned
End of career 19th January 2018
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
Junior World Championship 5 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Turin 2006 Giant slalom
silver Vancouver 2010 Departure
silver Vancouver 2010 Super combination
bronze Sochi 2014 Super combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Santa Caterina 2005 Super G
bronze Santa Caterina 2005 Giant slalom
silver Are 2007 combination
silver Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Super G
bronze Schladming 2013 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Verbier 2001 combination
gold Tarvisio 2002 Departure
gold Tarvisio 2002 Giant slalom
gold Tarvisio 2002 combination
gold Puy St. Vincent 2003 Super G
bronze Puy St. Vincent 2003 Departure
gold Maribor 2004 combination
bronze Maribor 2004 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 20, 2000
 Individual world cup victories 7th
 Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2006/07 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. (2006/07)
 Super G World Cup 2. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 4th (2006/07)
 Slalom World Cup 22. ( 2005/06 )
 Combination World Cup 2. (2006/07)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 5 4th
 Super G 2 6th 7th
 Giant slalom 0 3 2
 combination 1 1 1
 Parallel races 1 0 0
 team 0 2 0
 
Julia Mancuso in Aspen

Julia Mancuso (born March 9, 1984 in Reno , Nevada ) is a former American ski racer . With one gold, two silver and one bronze medals, she won more Olympic medals than any other American alpine skier.

biography

Mancuso won the Super G of the Whistler Cup in 1999 . In November of the same year, at the age of 15, she took part in a World Cup race for the first time. Her first place in the top ten of a race she made in March 2002 in the downhill of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee .

She was far more successful at the Junior World Championships. In 2002 she became three-time world champion in downhill, giant slalom and alpine combined in Tarvisio, Italy . Two further world championships followed in 2003 in Puy-Saint-Vincent in Super-G and in 2004 in Maribor in combination.

The World Cup seasons 2002/03 and 2003/04 , however, were mixed. In no race Mancuso could drive into the front positions. It was not until the 2004/05 season that she made it to the top of the world with seven placements among the top ten.

In January 2005 she won the bronze medal in Super-G at the World Championships in Santa Caterina, Italy, behind the Swede Anja Pärson and the Italian Lucia Recchia . A week later she won another bronze medal in the giant slalom, behind Anja Pärson and the Finn Tanja Poutiainen .

She celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 2006 Winter Olympics : in Sestriere , she was somewhat surprisingly Olympic champion in giant slalom, ahead of Tanja Poutiainen and Sweden's Anna Ottosson . The race was characterized by thick fog and heavy snowfall.

After she had to undergo hip surgery in the summer, she celebrated a successful comeback with her first World Cup victory in December 2006 on the descent of Val-d'Isère . Three more victories followed during the 2006/07 season . At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , she won silver in the super combined.

The following two winters were rather disappointing for Mancuso. Chronic back pain hindered Mancuso in training, so that she could hardly build on her previous achievements afterwards. There were signs of improvement in the 2009/10 season , when she was once again among the top ten several times. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she achieved her first podium finish in almost two years and surprisingly won the silver medal behind Lindsey Vonn in the downhill . Only one day later she was able to repeat this success in the super combination when she also achieved second place behind Maria Riesch . She finished eighth in the giant slalom and ninth in the Super-G. In her first race after the Olympic Winter Games, the Super-G in Crans-Montana , she celebrated a podium again with a third place in the World Cup.

Mancuso took her rising form into the 2010/11 season : She was able to place in the top ten several times, came third in the Super G in Lake Louise and second in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she won the silver medal in the Super-G, where she only had to admit defeat to Austrian Elisabeth Görgl by 0.05 seconds. At the World Cup final in Lenzerheide, she won the downhill; it was her first World Cup victory in more than four years. Since a huge earthquake had struck Japan a few days before , Mancuso, as the initiator, together with other world cup runners, launched the “Skiers helping Japan” initiative and donated half of their prize money for this campaign. Your ski and binding supplier took Mancuso's appeal as an opportunity to double the downhill winner's donation. A homepage was also set up, on which amateur skiers and World Cup fans could also make a contribution.

Further victories followed in the 2011/12 season : in January at the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the track where she had won the silver medal at the World Championships the year before; and in February in the City Event of Moscow , where she prevailed against the Austrian Michaela Kirchgasser in the final . In the Super G World Cup, she finished second behind Lindsey Vonn. After two podium places at the beginning of the 2012/13 season , she won the bronze medal in the Super-G at the 2013 World Cup in Schladming .

The 2013/14 season started mixed for Mancuso. After the turn of the year, however, her form increased, so that she was able to achieve her first podium finish at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . She won the bronze medal in the super combined and thus became the most successful US Olympic participant in alpine skiing.

After she was unable to return to earlier performances due to injury in the following winters, she contested her 399th and last World Cup race in a Wonder Woman costume on January 19, 2018 with the descent in Cortina . At the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , she was active as an expert for US television.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2000/01 113. 9 - - 47. 4th - - 55. 5 - - - -
2001/02 73. 81 33. 48 37. 9 - - - - 17th 24 - -
2002/03 46. 159 27. 44 25th 53 - - 44. 17th 5. 45 - -
2003/04 55. 125 42. 17th 27. 54 58. 3 32. 51 - - - -
2004/05 9. 659 10. 170 13. 136 7th 230 26th 83 6th 40 - -
2005/06 8th. 755 11. 176 6th 239 11. 212 22nd 75 8th. 53 - -
2006/07 3. 1356 2. 536 4th 273 4th 275 24. 77 2. 195 - -
2007/08 7th 938 7th 282 8th. 238 5. 253 28. 63 6th 102 - -
2008/09 27. 285 24. 74 27. 55 17th 124 42. 20th 36. 12 - -
2009/10 20th 359 9. 176 16. 124 28. 41 - - 22nd 18th - -
2010/11 5. 976 3. 367 3. 315 9. 181 51. 10 8th. 88 9. 15th
2011/12 4th 1020 5. 277 2. 381 9. 233 50. 9 22nd 20th 1. 100
2012/13 4th 867 9. 202 2. 365 11. 186 33. 40 6th 74 - -
2013/14 23. 306 15th 160 15th 104 31. 42 - - - - - -
2014/15 21st 331 13. 163 11. 132 39. 14th - - - - - -
2015/16 No results due to injury
2016/17 No results due to injury

World Cup victories

  • 7 World Cup victories in individual races (3 × downhill, 2 × super-G, 1 × super combination, 1 × city event)
  • 36 podium places in individual races (12 × downhill, 15 × super-G, 5 × giant slalom, 3 × super combination, 1 × city event)
  • 2 podium places in team competitions
date place country discipline
December 19, 2006 Val d'Isère France Departure
January 14, 2007 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Super combination
January 19, 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Super G
March 3, 2007 Tarvisio Italy Departure
March 16, 2011 Lenzerheide Switzerland Departure
5th February 2012 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Super G
February 21, 2012 Moscow Russia City event

Nor-Am Cup

  • 1999/00 season : 2nd overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking
  • 2001/02 season : 5th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
  • 14 podium places, including 5 wins

Junior World Championships

  • Québec 2000 : 4th Super-G, 11th Downhill
  • Verbier 2001 : 3rd combination, 7th slalom, 8th downhill, 11th Super-G, 23rd giant slalom
  • Tarvisio 2002 : 1st descent, 1st giant slalom, 1st combination, 5th Super-G, 7th slalom
  • Briançonnais 2003 : 1st Super-G, 3rd descent, 5th giant slalom, 14th combination, 43rd slalom
  • Maribor 2004 : 1st combination, 3rd Super-G, 4th giant slalom, 5th downhill, 6th slalom

More Achievements

  • 16 US championship titles:
    • 1 × departure: 2003
    • 4 × Super-G: 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2012
    • 7 × giant slalom: 2003, 2005 and 2009 to 2013
    • 4 × combination: 2004 to 2006 and 2009
  • 1 podium in the European Cup
  • 5 victories in FIS races

Personal

Mancuso was in a relationship with the Norwegian ski racer Aksel Lund Svindal from 2010 to 2013 .

Her father, Ciro Mancuso, was arrested in 1989 when she was five years old after smuggling $ 140 million in marijuana .

Web links

Commons : Julia Mancuso  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Julia Mancuso  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ skiershelpingjapan.com: Julia Mancuso and Marker Völkl support [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (from Skiinfo, accessed on March 31, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / magazin.skiinfo.de  
  2. ↑ Closing curtain for American women. ORFdate = 2018-01-19, accessed on January 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Svindal and Mancuso: Separation! (No longer available online.) Ski-online.ch, September 15, 2013, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 . 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.skionline.ch
  4. ↑ Skiing is believing Difficult childhood helped make Mancuso tougher ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mancuso, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Reno , Nevada , United States