Kris Freeman

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Kris Freeman Cross-country skiing
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 14th October 1980 (age 39)
place of birth Concord , United States
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
Career
society Andover Outing Club
status active
Medal table
National medals 10 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 13, 2001
 Overall World Cup 27. ( 2010/11 )
 Sprint World Cup 22. (2010/11)
 Distance World Cup 65th ( 2000/01 )
last change: September 1, 2014

Kris Freeman (born October 14, 1980 in Concord , New Hampshire ) is an American cross-country skier .

Career

Freeman, who competes for the Andover Outing Club , made his international debut in January 1998 at the Junior World Championship in Pontresina with 49th place over 10 km in free style and 27th place over 30 km in classic style. A little later he ran the first international FIS races in his home country and later also in the Cross-Country Continental Cup . Freeman finished fifth in his first use in an FIS race over 10 kilometers on Mount Bachelor . The 1999 Junior World Championships in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer did not produce any results worth mentioning. At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season, the US-American achieved a podium finish in a 15-kilometer race as part of the Continental Cup in Vernon for the first time in the same position as runner-up . The Junior World Championship 2000 in Štrbské Pleso brought the first good results in this context. Over 10 kilometers he finished 17th, in the sprint eighth and over 30 kilometers he finished 21st.

A year later Freeman was able to achieve the runner-up title behind Justin Wadsworth over 10 kilometers at the US championships in McCall . Just one week later he made his debut in the Cross-Country World Cup in Soldier Hollow over 15 kilometers , finished 29th and won his first World Cup points straight away. He then won a sprint race in the Continental Cup in Marquette . The highlight of this first successful season was the 2001 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . Freeman reached in Finland however no placement better than 50th place. A year later Freeman entered in Salt Lake City in four races at the Olympic Winter Games . He finished 22nd over the 15 km before finishing 14th in the subsequent pursuit. He also finished 41st in the sprint and was fifth in the relay race together with John Bauer , Justin Wadsworth and Carl Swenson .

From the 2002/03 season Freeman was a permanent member of the US squad in the World Cup, but also competed in races in the Continental Cup. In January 2003 he achieved a first very good World Cup result with Carl Swenson in Oberhof as fourth in the team sprint. He was particularly strong at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme . If he was only 12th with the US relay, he was able to run to 14th place in the pursuit race and missed a medal by just 0.61 seconds as fourth in the race over 15 kilometers in classic style.

At the end of 2003, Freeman came sixth over 30 kilometers in Toblach for the first time among the top ten in the World Cup. The 2005 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf were not very successful . In 2006 he won the Pursuit title at the US Championships in Soldier Hollow , having previously been runner-up in the 15-kilometer classic behind Ivan Babikov . Several weeks later , Freeman entered the Olympics for the second time. In the Pragelato Plan competitions he achieved an acceptable 21st place over 15 kilometers, but was only 61 over 50 kilometers.

In 2007 Freeman was winner of the US Championships in Houghton over 19 and 15 kilometers and missed another medal as fifth in the sprint competition. The highlight of the season was the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo . It was Freeman's fourth world championships. The American's performance fluctuated a lot in Japan and ranged from 62nd place in the 15-kilometer freestyle race to 12th place in the 50-kilometer classic. Again Freeman's preference for the classic track was evident.

The following season brought in fifth place over 15 kilometers in Kuusamo the setting of his hitherto best position and thus the best result since 2003. At the national US championships in 2008 in Houghton and Fairbanks , Freeman was only able to achieve third place over 10 kilometers as his best result to reach. In the 2008/09 season , Freeman posted several results among the top 20 in the World Cup.

Freeman caused a surprise at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 when he missed the bronze medal by 1.3 seconds over 15 kilometers. In the team sprint, he finished eleventh with Torin Koos and 13th with the relay. Also in the 2009/10 season Freeman managed to shorten his connection to the top of the world. In Kuusamo, Finland, he again fought for fourth place over 15 kilometers classic. In Davos he finished seventh in free technique over the same distance.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Freeman ran only on a very weak 59th place over the 15 km distance. In the skiathlon, too, he did not get above rank 45. In the final 50 km run, he even had to stop prematurely. In the following season 2010/11 Freeman started with a win and a second place at FIS races in Muonio . At the first World Cup of the season in Gällivare , Sweden , he was ninth among the top ten. He rarely achieved this result during the season. He finished the Tour de Ski 2010/11 after finishing seventh on the last stage in 28th place overall. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , Norway , he missed his return to the top of the world. Contrary to the good performance in 2009, this time he had to be content with mixed performances. In the sprint he was eliminated as 58th in the preliminary races. After two top 30 placements in the individual and the pursuit, a disappointing 14th place for the team in the relay race followed. At the end of the season Freeman traveled to Sun Valley and contested some races of the US Super Tour there after winning the US championship over 50 km. He finished second in the first 3.5 km race and won the 15 km race. He also came second in the 6 km pursuit.

With the 2011/12 season , Freeman's performance curve continued downwards. After finishing well outside of the points in the first World Cups and also finishing the Tour de Ski 2011/12 only in 43rd place in the overall standings, the American only managed to make it into the World Cup points again in mid-January in Otepää, Estonia, in 22nd place . At the US championships held a little later in Bad Ischl , Austria , he managed to win another title. He also clearly won the 50 km mass start in Craftsbury , having previously celebrated two victories in the US Super Tour at the same location.

After he did not achieve good results the following year either in the World Cup or at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 , he remained without a title at the US Championships in 2014 for the first time in a long time. He only won two bronze medals in the sprint and over 15 km in Soldier Hollow. At the following Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 , Freeman's fourth Olympic Games, he stayed in the individual disciplines beyond the top 50 and was also not given a starting place in the relay. In the 2014/15 season he won five races of the US Super Tour and thus took first place in the overall cup standings. At the Nor-Am-Cup he got three wins and reached fifth place in the overall standings. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 2015 , he achieved 59th place in the 15 km freestyle and 48th place in the skiathlon. After finishing 73rd at the Nordic Opening in Ruka at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he made it onto the podium three times at the US Super Tour, including one win and third place overall.

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

  • 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total Team c
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 6th 1 1 8th 1 2
Scoring 1 33 4th 4th 11 1 3 57 6th 16
Starts 1 53 10 8th 19th 17th 7th 115 6th 16
Status: end of season 2014/15
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale
c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2000/01 10 106. - - 8th 65.
2001/02 - - - - - -
2002/03 26th 84. - - - -
2003/04 141 44. 141 27. - -
2004/05 31 79. 31 51. - -
2005/06 32 107. 32 73. - -
2006/07 79 56. 79 32. - -
2007/08 84 66. 84 40. - -
2008/09 56 84. 56 51. - -
2009/10 106 64. 106 34. - -
2010/11 255 27. 176 22nd 9 91.
2011/12 51 86. 51 54. - -
2012/13 58 75. 58 50. - -

Private

Kris Freeman lives in Andover . He graduated from the University of Vermont . He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus even before the 2002 Olympic Games . Since then he has worked with Eli Lilly and Company , for which he represents and is sponsored by her. Eli Lilly is developing a syringe-free insulin pump in collaboration with Freeman. The so-called OmniPod delivers the insulin to the body through the skin so that no injections are necessary. After his first performance drops in the World Cup, Freeman announced that he suffered from compartment syndrome .

His older brother Justin Freeman was also a cross-country skier.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1998 - Men's 10km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  2. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1998 - Men's 30km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  3. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2000 - Men's 10km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  4. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2000 - Men's SP 1.5 km F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  5. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 2000 - Men's 30km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  6. ↑ National Championships 2001 - Men's 10 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  7. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's Rel 4x10 km M in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  8. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's 2x10 km M Double Pursuit in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  9. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  10. ↑ National Championships 2006 - Men's 2x15 km M Pursuit in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  11. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2011 - Men's SP F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  12. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2011 - Men's Rel 4x10 km M in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  13. ↑ National Championships 2012 - Men's 10 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  14. ↑ National Championships 2012 - Men's 50 km F Mst in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 1, 2014
  15. ^ Diabetes Success Story: Olympian Kris Freeman ( English ) In: Eli Lilly and Company . Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  16. ↑ Kris Freeman Story ( English ) In: OmniPod.com . Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myomnipod.com
personal data
SURNAME Freeman, Kris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord , New Hampshire , United States