Kathleen Monahan

Kathleen Monahan
nation	United States
birthday	9th November 1972 (age 47)
place of birth	Aspen , United States
Career
discipline	Downhill , super-G
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1992  Overall World Cup 43rd ( 1998/99 )  Downhill World Cup 30. (1998/99)  Super G World Cup 12. (1998/99)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Super G 0 0 1

Kathleen Monahan (born November 9, 1972 in Aspen , Colorado ) is a former American ski racer . She is a two-time American champion.

Monahan grew up in Aspen and started skiing at the age of four. She competed in her first race when she was eight.

She made her debut in the World Cup in 1992. Nevertheless, she celebrated her first successes in the North American Nor-Am Cup . In 1995 she became the overall winner of this racing series and also secured victory in the giant slalom classification. After this success, she took part regularly in the Ski World Cup from the 1995/96 season . In the course of her career, she was placed in the top ten twice. The greatest success was a third place in the Super-G of St. Moritz in March 1999. In the same year she was also champion in the US championships in the combined and in the super-G. At the end of the season she tore the cartilage in her right knee while training in Zermatt , which forced her to take a two-year break.

Her comeback in the 2001/02 Olympic season began muted. Only slowly did she get back to the top twenty. It was not until the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City that a good placement was achieved again with rank 11 in the Super-G.

After Monahan had contested her last World Cup race in December 2002, she finally retired from ski racing in 2004.

Web links

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