Kaitlyn Farrington

Kaitlyn Farrington
nation	United States
birthday	December 18, 1989
place of birth	Hailey , Idaho ,  USA
Career
discipline	halfpipe
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Winter X-Games 2 × 1 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi halfpipe  X-Games gold 2010 Tignes halfpipe gold 2010 Tignes halfpipe silver 2011 Aspen halfpipe bronze 2012 Tignes halfpipe bronze 2014 Aspen halfpipe  Snowboard Junior World Championships silver 2008 Valmalenco halfpipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup March 10, 2007  Overall World Cup 67th ( 2008/09 )  Freestyle World Cup 04. ( 2012/13 )  Halfpipe World Cup 04. ( 2012/13 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 0 0 1
TTR World Snowboard Tour
Overall rating 09. (2013/14)  Halfpipe rating 04. (2012/13)

Kaitlyn Farrington (born December 18, 1989 in Hailey , Idaho ) is a former American snowboarder . It usually starts in the halfpipe discipline , less often in slopestyle .

Career

Farrington grew up on a farm in Bellevue , Idaho and has competed in snowboarding since 2001. She is a member of the US youth team. From her comes the saying: "If everything seems under control, you must not be going fast enough!" - "If it looks like everything is under control, then you are not driving fast enough!"

In 2006 and 2007 Farrington only competed in FIS races in the USA and was able to convince with a victory at Mount Bachelor ( Oregon ) in slopestyle, two second, three third and - with one race - placements among the top ten. In March 2007 at her first start in the World Cup in Lake Placid , she achieved a remarkable 15th place (halfpipe). In the following season 2007/2008 she started only in three competitions, in Stoneham , Calgary and Saas-Fee , but she managed another victory in an FIS race, again in Oregon, this time in Mount Hood Meadows and in the halfpipe discipline. At the end of the season she was runner-up in the halfpipe at the Junior World Championships (FIS Junior World Championships) in Valmalenco .

At the start of the 2008/09 season she achieved her first top ten placement in the World Cup with sixth place in Cardrona, New Zealand . Also in February in Stoneham she achieved a top placement with seventh place. At the Junior World Championships in Nagano in 2009 Farrington reached sixth place in the halfpipe. In the following three years she did not start in the FIS World Cup. It was only used in the NorAm Cup. In December 2010, she won a clear victory in Copper in the NorAm Cup.

Back in the World Cup for the 2012/13 season , Farrington started again successfully in Cardrona and finished eighth. In January 2013 she finished fifth in Copper Mountain, her best World Cup result to date. At the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham , Farrington narrowly missed a medal in fourth. In February 2013 she was third in Park City for the first time on a World Cup podium.

On February 12, 2014 Kaitlyn Farrington was able to secure Olympic gold in the halfpipe at the Winter Games in Sochi, celebrating her first major international title. Before the Games, she decided not to travel with Team USA and to train and start independently.

In January 2015, she surprisingly announced the end of her career at the age of 25. The reason she gave was that she suffered from chronic spinal stenosis .

successes

• 2008 Vice Junior World Champion Halfpipe
• 2014 Olympic champion halfpipe

Web links

• Kaitlyn Farrington in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kaitlyn Farrington in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Kaitlyn Farrington on the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour
• Biography at expn.go.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaitlyn Farrington. (No longer available online.) In: neverstopexploring.com. July 10, 2015, archived from the original on November 20, 2015 ; accessed on November 20, 2015 . 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.  
2. ↑ Profile of Kaitlyn Farrington ( English ) usasa.org. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. 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. Retrieved August 31, 2013. 
3. ↑ FIS Junior World Championships 2009 - Ladies' Halfpipe in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on November 20, 2015
4. ↑ Past, Present and Future with Kaitlyn Farrington - Snowboarder MBM. In: snowboardermbm.de. October 29, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Kaitlyn Farrington Says Goodbye To Competitive Snowboarding. In: teamusa.org. January 16, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 . 
6. ^ Caught up with Kaitlyn Farrington on her retirement from competitive snowboarding. In: snowboarding.transworld.net. February 19, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Alyssa Roenigk: Gold medalist snowboarder Farrington to retire. In: espn.go.com. January 19, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .