Kendra Kobelka

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Kendra Kobelka Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 1st May 1967 (age 53)
place of birth Lynn Lake, Canada
size 160 cm
Weight 65 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society Mount Mackenzie Ski Club
National squad since 1986
status resigned
End of career December 14, 1992
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 47th ( 1988/89 )
 Downhill World Cup 19. ( 1989/90 )
 Super G World Cup 20. (1988/89)
 

Kendra Kobelka (married Wilson ; born May 1, 1967 in Lynn Lake, Manitoba ) is a former Canadian ski racer . She specialized in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines and achieved four top 10 results in the World Cup .

biography

Kendra Kobelka was born in Manitoba and grew up in Revelstoke , British Columbia . She learned to ski on the nearby Mount Mackenzie. She began her racing career at the age of 13.

Kobelka had a first major success at the Canada Games in 1983 when she secured gold medals in giant slalom and parallel slalom in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean . In 1986 she was accepted into the national team and from then on belonged to the strong Canadian women's team around Kerrin Lee-Gartner , Kate Pace and Karen Percy . In the 1987/88 season she suffered a back injury while training and was featured in a CBC documentary . In December 1988 she achieved her first top 10 result in the World Cup with ninth place in the downhill run from Zauchensee . She achieved her best result two months later with a seventh place in the Super-G of Steamboat Springs . After finishing 47th in the overall World Cup, she won her first and only Canadian championship title in the Super-G at the end of the season .

In the 1989/90 season she got two more placements in the downhill run among the top ten, with which she worked her way up to the top 15 on the start list. The greatest success of her career came the following September, when she won the gold medal in the downhill and silver in the super-G at the Pan American Games in Las Leñas . A few weeks later, she suffered a knee injury and had to sit out for the entire World Cup season. The comeback did not go as desired and she once again missed a major event with the 1992 Olympic Games . At the end of the season she was Canadian runner-up in the downhill, behind Lee-Gartner. After promising season preparation, Kendra Kobelka surprisingly announced the end of her career on December 14, 1992. She justified the step with a lack of motivation. Because of her fighting spirit, she was nicknamed "Beater" by her teammates.

While still active, she married her trainer Nick Wilson. Former ice hockey player and future coach Mike Babcock is Kobelka's cousin.

successes

World cup

  • 4 placements among the top ten

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G
space Points space Points space Points
1988/89 47. 16 30th 7th 20th 9
1989/90 56. 14th 19th 14th - -
1990/91 No results due to injury
1991/92 116. 7th - - 51. 7th

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1992 BNA Canadian Olympic Hopefuls. Trading Card # 173. Online , accessed March 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Kendra calls career quits. In: Red Deer Advocate , December 15, 1992 edition, pp. 7-8.
  3. ↑ Glimpses of Revelstoke's past for Jan. 30. Revelstoke Review, January 30, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b The Canadian Press : Kobelka grabs GS gold. In: The Province , February 23, 1983 edition, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Glimpses of the Past. Revelstoke Review, January 2, 2018, accessed March 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Terry Edwards: Injury rash haunts skiers. In: The Prince George Citizen , February 1, 1992, p. 14. Online , accessed March 16, 2020.
  7. ↑ Daryl Slade: Kobelka springs surprise. In: Calgary Herald , December 15, 1992, p. 39.
  8. ↑ Skiers courted disaster with the dating game. In: The Edmonton Journal , December 13, 1992 issue, p. C3.
  9. ↑ Jim Matheson: Duck's coack Babcock took fast track to NHL bench. In: The Edmonton Journal , October 27, 2002 issue, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Kobelka, Kendra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn Lake, Manitoba