Kelsey Serwa

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Kelsey Serwa Freestyle skiing
Kelsey Serwa
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 1st September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth Kelowna
size 168 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Ski cross
society Kelowna Ski Club
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Sochi 2014 Ski cross
gold Pyeongchang 2018 Ski cross
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Deer Valley 2011 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 5, 2009
 World Cup victories 8th
 Overall World Cup 7th ( 2010/11 )
 Ski cross world cup 3. ( 2008/09 , 2010/11)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Ski cross 8th 9 3
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

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Ski cross
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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kelsey Serwa's ski season is over. The Globe and Mail , January 18, 2012, accessed October 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Kelsey Serwa sidelined again by injury. Kelowna Capital News, March 17, 2013, accessed March 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Kelsey Serwa sidelined with knee injury. Alpine Canada, January 10, 2017, accessed February 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Serwa, Kelsey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelowna , British Columbia