Kathy Kreiner

Kathy Kreiner
nation	Canada
birthday	4th May 1957 (age 63)
place of birth	Timmins , Canada
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1981
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Innsbruck 1976 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 10. ( 1973/74 )  Downhill World Cup 15. ( 1977/78 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 4. ( 1976/77 )  Slalom World Cup 13. (1973/74)  Combination World Cup 12. ( 1979/80 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 0  Giant slalom 1 2 3

Kathy Kreiner (born May 4, 1957 in Timmins , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ski racer .

biography

The sister of the giant slalom Olympic fourth of Sapporo Laurie Kreiner won the gold medal in the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and thus prevented the total triumph of Rosi Mittermaier , who finished second in this race. In the Ski World Cup Kreiner won a giant slalom on January 6, 1974 in Pfronten .

At the age of 14, Kathy Kreiner was already awarded start no. 37 Sixth in the Downhill World Cup on January 18, 1972 in Grindelwald , took part in the 1972 Winter Olympics and was a member of the Canadian national team. From 1973 to 1977 she was one of the top giant slalom runners. After the rather disappointing seasons 1979–1980, she left the national team, hired her own trainer and landed in the first World Cup downhill in 1980/81 in second place. In the spring of 1981, she ended her career. Kreiner was in the top ten a total of 45 times in World Cup races, including 7 podiums.

successes

Olympic games

• 1st place and gold medal, 1976 Innsbruck, giant slalom
• 5th place, 1980 Lake Placid, downhill
• 9th place, 1980 Lake Placid, giant slalom

World championships

• 7th place, World Cup 1974 in St Moritz, downhill
• 1st place and gold medal, World Championships 1976 in Innsbruck, giant slalom
• 4th place, World Cup 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, combination
• 5th place, World Championship 1980 in Lake Placid, downhill
• 9th place, 1980 World Championships in Lake Placid, giant slalom
• 4th place, World Championship 1980 in Lake Placid, combination

Podium places in the World Cup

• 1973: 3rd place, giant slalom Anchorage (USA)
• 1974: 1st place, giant slalom Pfronten (GER)
• 1975: 3rd place, Giant Slalom Garibaldi (CAN)
• 1976: 3rd place, Giant Slalom Mont St.Anne (CAN)
• 1977: 2nd place, giant slalom Arosa (SUI)
• 1977: 2nd place, giant slalom Sun Valley (USA)
• 1981: 2nd place, Downhill Val d'Isere (FRA)

Others

Kreiner won twelve Canadian championship titles (downhill in 1975 and 1978; giant slalom 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978; slalom 1975, 1977 and 1979; combination 1974, 1976 and 1978).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Again this terrible prell” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 19, 1972, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).