Kaylin Richardson
Kaylin Richardson 
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 United States
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| birthday | 28th September 1984 (age 35) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | Minneapolis , United States | ||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg | ||||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, combination |
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| society | Team Gilboa | ||||||||||
| National squad | since 2003 | ||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||
| End of career | March 2010 | ||||||||||
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Kaylin Richardson (born September 28, 1984 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a former American ski racer .
biography
Richardson contested her first FIS race in December 1999. In the Nor-Am Cup , she was first at the start in November 2000. With a total of ten victories (eight of them in slalom), she decided the slalom classification for herself between 2003 and 2005 and in 2004 she achieved third place in the overall classification. From November 2002 she started in the European Cup and celebrated her only victory in February 2004.
In November 2003 Richardson started in the World Cup for the first time and won her first World Cup points on February 27, 2005 in the combination of San Sicario with 16th place. She achieved her best results in the 2006/07 season . She achieved her best World Cup result on January 7th, 2007 with eighth place in the slalom of Kranjska Gora and finished four times in the top 15. In the next few years she could not come close to these results.
In 2006 and 2010 , Richardson took part in the Winter Olympics and finished 17th in the combined and super combined. At the 2007 World Championships , she reached 12th place in the super combined, 23rd place in slalom and eleventh (and last) place with her teammates in the team competition. From 2006 to 2009 she was four times American champion. At the end of the 2009-10 season, Richardson announced her retirement.
successes
Olympic games
- Turin 2006 : 17th combination
- Vancouver 2010 : 17th super combination
World championships
- Åre 2007 : 12th super combination, 23rd slalom, 11th team competition
World cup
- 5 placements among the best 15
Nor-Am Cup
- 2002/03 season : 6th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
- 2003/04 season : 3rd overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 4th giant slalom ranking
- 2004/05 season : 8th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking
- 2005/06 season : 4th giant slalom ranking
- 2006/07 season : 6th Super-G classification
- 2008/09 season : 4th combined ranking
- 19 podium places, including 10 victories (8 × slalom, 1 × giant slalom, 1 × Super-G)
Junior World Championships
- Briançonnais 2003 : 15th giant slalom, 41st slalom
- Maribor 2004 : 8th Super-G, 8th combination, 11th slalom, 22nd giant slalom, 27th descent
More Achievements
- 4 US championship titles (downhill 2007 and 2009, slalom 2006, combination 2007)
- 1 win in the European Cup
- 9 victories in FIS races (7 × slalom, 1 × giant slalom, 1 × Super-G)
Web links
- Kaylin Richardson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Kaylin Richardson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Kaylin Richardson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaylin Richardson Retires www.skiracing.com, March 26, 2010 (English)
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| SURNAME | Richardson, Kaylin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minneapolis , Minnesota |