Karl Anderson (ski racer)

Karl Anderson
nation	United States
birthday	6th August 1953 (age 67)
place of birth	Lewiston , United States
size	173 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Departure
society	Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club
status	resigned
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 40th (1974/75)  Downhill World Cup 15th (1974/75)

Karl Ruben Anderson (born August 6, 1953 in Lewiston , Maine ) is a retired American ski racer . His specialty was downhill .

Career

Karl Anderson was in the top ten four times in his World Cup career . His best result was fifth in the downhill from Jackson Hole on March 9, 1975. In the European Cup , he won the downhill classification in the 1975/76 season with three points ahead of Swiss Erwin Josi . In 1978 he became the American downhill champion. He took his last World Cup points on December 21, 1980 with 15th place in the downhill from St. Moritz .

Anderson took part in major events three times: at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck he was 24th in the downhill, and at the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he was 28th. In 1980 he took part in the Olympic Games for the second time in Lake Placid , but fell out of downhill skiing there.

Anderson was the first alpine ski racer from the US state of Maine to participate in the Olympic Games and was inducted into the Maine Ski Hall of Fame in 2005.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Innsbruck 1976 : 24th departure

World championships

• Innsbruck 1976 : 24th departure
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 28th departure

World cup

• Four placements among the top ten

European Cup

• 1975/76 season : 1st downhill classification

More Achievements

• American downhill champion in 1978

Web links

• Karl Anderson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Karl Anderson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Karl Anderson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )