Kelsey Serwa
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nation | Canada | |||||||||||||||
birthday | 1st September 1989 (age 30) | |||||||||||||||
place of birth | Kelowna | |||||||||||||||
size | 168 cm | |||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg | |||||||||||||||
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discipline | Ski cross | |||||||||||||||
society | Kelowna Ski Club | |||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||
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last change: March 20, 2019 |
Kelsey Serwa (born September 1, 1989 in Kelowna , British Columbia ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . She specializes in the discipline of ski cross . Her greatest successes so far are the 2018 Olympic gold medal and the 2011 world championship title.
biography
Serwa learned to ski near her home in Kelowna at the Big White Ski Resort , which her grandfather co-founded. At the beginning of her sports career, she was an alpine skier . From December 2004 she took part in FIS races , from March 2006 in the Nor-Am Cup . In January 2006 she celebrated her first victory in an FIS race, followed by seven more. Proved to giant slalom and Super-G than their closest disciplines. In the Nor-Am Cup, however, a twelfth place remained her best result. Towards the end of the 2007/08 season, a trainer asked Serwa if she was interested in the freestyle discipline of ski cross. Without a doubt, she took part in the first Canadian ski cross championships and immediately took second place, after which she was accepted into the national team.
On January 5, 2009 Serwa made her debut in the World Cup in St. Johann in Tirol . She drove to third place and immediately established herself among the world's best. In her first season, another podium and fifth place at the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro followed , and she also won the Canadian championship. The FIS named her “ Rookie of the Year ”. After the 2009/10 season had started rather cautiously, she won her first World Cup race on January 13, 2010 in Alpe d'Huez . At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she was eliminated in the semifinals and ranked fifth. At the end of the season, the third World Cup victory followed in Grindelwald .
In the 2010/11 season Serwa won another World Cup race in Les Contamines and won the ski cross competition at the Winter X Games 2011 . The greatest success of her career up to that point was achieved by winning the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley . The 2011/12 season began very successfully for Serwa with two World Cup victories in Innichen . But on January 11, 2012, she fell in the final round in Alpe d'Huez and tore a cruciate ligament in her left knee. This ended the season prematurely for them. Serwa immediately established himself at the top of the world again in the 2012/13 season . She won two races in Innichen and Sochi , plus two second places. Shortly before the 2013 World Championships in Voss , she suffered another cruciate ligament tear in her left knee.
Once again Serwa managed to return to the top of the world. In the 2013/14 World Cup winter she achieved four top 5 results, including a second place. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she won the silver medal behind Marielle Thompson . She then skipped the entire 2014/15 season. In the winter of 2015/16 she was second on the podium twice in the World Cup. After three top 10 placings at the beginning of the 2016/17 World Cup season , she suffered cartilage damage in her knee during training in January 2017 and had to end the season.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the gold medal in front of her compatriot Brittany Phelan .
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 5th ski cross
- Sochi 2014 : 2nd ski cross
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 1st ski cross
World championships
- Inawashiro 2009 : 5th ski cross
- Deer Valley 2011 : 1st ski cross
World Cup ratings
season | total | Ski cross | ||
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space | Points | space | Points | |
2008/09 | 12. | 42 | 3. | 416 |
2009/10 | 11. | 44 | 4th | 487 |
2010/11 | 7th | 55 | 3. | 610 |
2011/12 | 29 | 28 | 9. | 276 |
2012/13 | 19th | 40 | 4th | 401 |
2013/14 | 73. | 17th | 17th | 187 |
2015/16 | 31. | 34.50 | 8th. | 414 |
2016/17 | 134. | 7.31 | 24. | 95 |
2017/18 | 27. | 34.40 | 7th | 344 |
2018/19 | 8th. | 355 |
World Cup victories
Serwa has achieved 20 podium places in the World Cup so far, including 8 wins:
date | place | country |
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January 13, 2010 | Alpe d'Huez | France |
January 24, 2010 | Lake Placid | United States |
March 12, 2010 | Grindelwald | Switzerland |
January 12, 2011 | Les Contamines | France |
December 17, 2011 | San Candido | Italy |
December 18, 2011 | San Candido | Italy |
December 23, 2012 | San Candido | Italy |
19th February 2013 | Sochi | Russia |
X-Games
- Winter X Games 2009: 6th ski cross
- Winter X Games 2010: 3rd ski cross
- Winter X Games 2011: 1st ski cross
More Achievements
Skicross:
- 1 Canadian Championship (2009)
- 2 podium places in the European Cup, including 1 victory
- 2 podium places in the Nor-Am Cup
- 4 podiums in the South American Cup, including 2 wins
- 1 podium in the Australian New Zealand Cup
Alpine skiing:
- 8 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Kelsey Serwa's website
- Kelsey Serwa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) Freestyle
- Kelsey Serwa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) Alpine
- Kelsey Serwa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile X-Games
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kelsey Serwa's ski season is over. The Globe and Mail , January 18, 2012, accessed October 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Kelsey Serwa sidelined again by injury. Kelowna Capital News, March 17, 2013, accessed March 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Kelsey Serwa sidelined with knee injury. Alpine Canada, January 10, 2017, accessed February 4, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Serwa, Kelsey |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian freestyle skier |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kelowna , British Columbia |