Lane Spina

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Lane Spina Freestyle skiing
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 3rd January 1962 (age 58)
place of birth Reno , USA
size 174 cm
Weight 73 kg
job product manager
Career
discipline ballet
status resigned
End of career March 1993
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Calgary 1988 ballet
bronze Albertville 1992 ballet
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
silver Tignes 1986 ballet
silver Calgary 1988 ballet
silver Oberjoch 1989 ballet
gold Lake Placid 1991 ballet
bronze Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 1993 ballet
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 14, 1984
 World Cup victories 14th
 Overall World Cup 8. (1990/91, 1991/92)
 Aerials World Cup 58th (1983/84)
 Ballet World Cup 2. (1985/86, 1986/87, 1987/88,
1988/89, 1990/91)
 Combination World Cup 16. (1983/84)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 ballet 14th 22nd 13
 

Lane Spina (born January 3, 1962 in Reno , Nevada ) is a former American freestyle skier . He was largely specialized in the no longer performed discipline ballet (acro) . In this discipline, the 1991 world champion and won five other medals at major events. He achieved 14 victories in the World Cup.

biography

Athletic career

Lane Spina grew up with four older siblings in Reno. He started his athletic career as a gymnast and switched to freestyle skiing after meeting Bob Howard , also from Reno, while working in a ski shop in the mid-1970s . The passionate racing cyclist graduated from high school in 1980 with the later three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond , who was also active as a skier in his youth.

Spina was inducted into the US national team in 1983 and made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in January 1984 . After he had achieved podium places in ballet straight away, he tried his hand at the other competitions towards the end of the season. He finished third in the discipline and was named World Cup Rookie of the Year for it. In December 1984 he celebrated his first World Cup victory in Tignes and concentrated entirely on his parade discipline after a cruciate ligament rupture that made him miss much of the season. In the following four winters he took second place in the discipline ranking behind Hermann Reitberger . At the first world championships in Tignes, he won the silver medal behind Richard Schabl . In the demonstration competition as part of the Olympic Games in Calgary and the World Championships on the Oberjoch , he had to be satisfied with second place behind Reitberger, which gave him the nickname “Mr. Silver ”.

In 1989/90, Spina reduced its competition program in order to hone its training methods and increasingly focused on alpine and cross-country skiing in preparation . He only took part in the World Cup twice, but won both competitions. In February 1991 he won the long-awaited gold medal at the World Championships in Lake Placid . In the discipline classification he finished second for the fifth time and this time had to admit defeat to Rune Kristiansen . He won the bronze medal in the demonstration competition as part of the Olympic Games in Albertville , and a year later he also won bronze at the World Championships in Zauchensee . With six individual medals at major events, he is the most successful athlete in ski ballet in this regard.

In March 1993 he ended his active career in competitive sports after a total of six knee operations.

Further career

During his sports career, Lane Spina worked as a landscaper in the summer months and helped design knee braces for top athletes. After retiring, he initially worked as an engineer for biomechanics on the computer-aided design of titanium implants for the skull and spine. He then switched to designing for various companies, including Bally Technologies , slot machines and handheld consoles . He became Senior Program Manager in 2002 WMS Gaming and studied the way at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas , mechanical engineering . He later completed a Master of Business Administration degree at the same university . Since 2013 he has worked as a product manager for Scientific Games Corporation .

Spina lives in Las Vegas .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials ballet combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1983/84 12. 25th 58. 2 3. 139 16. 10
1984/85 53. 9 - - 21st 60 - -
1985/86 13. 24 - - 2. 121 - -
1986/87 10. 24 - - 2. 146 - -
1987/88 10. 24 - - 2. 166 - -
1988/89 9. 24 - - 2. 168 - -
1989/90 64. 8th - - 22nd 50 - -
1990/91 8th. 24 - - 2. 213 - -
1991/92 8th. 24 - - 3. 190 - -
1992/93 74. 25th - - 25th 176 - -

World Cup victories

Spina achieved 49 podium places in the World Cup, including 14 victories:

date place country discipline
December 11, 1984 Tignes France ballet
March 8, 1986 Voss Norway ballet
December 12, 1986 Tignes France ballet
January 22, 1987 Lake Placid United States ballet
March 18, 1988 Meiringen - Hasliberg Switzerland ballet
January 27, 1989 Breckenridge United States ballet
March 16, 1989 Are Sweden ballet
5th January 1990 Mont Gabriel Canada ballet
January 19, 1990 Breckenridge United States ballet
December 14, 1990 Zermatt Switzerland ballet
March 22, 1991 Hundfjället Sweden ballet
December 10, 1991 Zermatt Switzerland ballet
January 10, 1992 Blackcomb Canada ballet
January 23, 1992 Lake Placid United States ballet

More Achievements

  • 5 American ballet championship titles

Awards

  • 1984: World Cup Rookie of the Year
  • 1991, 1992: Ann Hansen Award
  • 2014: Induction into the Hall of Fame of the World Acrobatics Society

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lane Spina. Olympic Channel, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b AJ McDougall: The Boom and Bust of Ski Ballet. Tahoe Quarterly, 2019, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Lane Spina: “Mr. Silver ”. In: Skiing. December 1990, p. 44 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c Chris Murray: Two decades later, Wooster High grad Lane Spina still cherishes his Olympic experience. Reno Gazette Journal, February 21, 2014, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Who Won What? In: Ski. Buyer's Guide 1985, p. 24 (English).
  6. ↑ 2017 US Ski & Snowboard Awards Manual. (PDF) US Ski & Snowboard, accessed April 4, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ Summer Newsletter Part II. (PDF) World Acrobatics Society, 2014, accessed on March 27, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Spina, Lane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Reno (Nevada)