Kate Pace

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Kate Pace Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 13th February 1969 (age 51)
place of birth North Bay , Canada
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society North Bay Ski Racers
status resigned
End of career 1998
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Morioka 1993 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 14th ( 1993/94 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. (1993/94)
 Super G World Cup 24. ( 1990/91 )
 Combination World Cup 14th (1990/91)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 1 2
 

Kate Pace-Lindsay (born February 13, 1969 in North Bay , Ontario ) is a former ski racer from Canada . She was particularly successful in the downhill .

biography

The beginning of her career was marked by injuries. Her first World Cup season review drove Pace 1990/91 , where they in Japanese Furano finished fourth in the downhill. Shortly afterwards, she was seriously injured in downhill training at Lake Louise . Barely recovered, she had to end the 1991/92 season due to a torn cruciate ligament and was unable to take part in the Winter Olympics in Albertville .

She started the 1992/93 World Cup season with a 5th place. In the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo , she broke her wrist in a fall. With a plaster cuff, Pace started the training runs for the world championship downhill in Morioka and achieved several best times. In the race she was able to confirm her training results and won the gold medal from Astrid Lødemel and Anja Haas . A few weeks later, she won her first World Cup race on the last downhill of the season in Hafjell .

Her second and last World Cup victory came in the first descent of the following season in Tignes . She reached the podium two more times this winter and came second in the Downhill World Cup behind Katja Seizinger . At the 1994 Winter Olympics , Pace was fifth in the downhill and twelfth in the Super-G.

In the following seasons she was unable to continue her successes. At the 1996 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , she was fourth, missing the bronze medal by 1/100 of a second. Kate Pace ended her racing career in 1998 .

successes

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
March 13, 1993 Kvitfjell Norway Departure
4th December 1993 Tignes France Departure

Others

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