Kerrin Lee-Gartner reached the climax of her sporting career at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where she won the gold medal in the downhill without ever having won or won a World Cup race before or after. In a very close race, she won with six hundredths of a second ahead of Hilary Lindh (USA) and nine hundredths of a second ahead of Veronika Wallinger (AUT), while the two top favorites, Katja Seizinger (GER) and Petra Kronberger (AUT), just came away empty-handed . After slalom gold at the 1960 Olympics by Anne Heggtveit and giant slalom gold at the 1968 Olympics by Nancy Greene and at the 1976 Olympics by Kathy Kreiner , she is the fourth Alpine Olympic gold medalist for Canada to this day (March 15, 2019).
As a specialist in the fast disciplines, Lee-Gartner was able to achieve a total of six podium places in the Downhill and Super-G in the Alpine Ski World Cup and on February 2, 1989 at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Vail in 1989, she won the combined downhill with 0.29 seconds ahead of Brigitte Oertli With 59.24 points ( Tamara McKinney had won gold with 5.65 points), she finished 9th.
In 1994 she ended her career.
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