Laurie Graham (ski racer)
Laurie Graham 
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| birthday | 30th March 1960 (age 60) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Orangeville , Canada | ||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1988 | ||||||||||||
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Laurie Graham (born March 30, 1960 in Orangeville , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ski racer .
biography
Graham started her racing career at the age of nine and was appointed to the Canadian national team in 1978. In 1983 she won her first World Cup race , the downhill in Mont-Tremblant, Canada . In 1984, in Puy-Saint-Vincent , France , she celebrated Canada's first Super G World Cup victory.
Graham won five World Cup descents and one Super-G in her career. In the 1985/86 season she fought a duel at the highest level with Swiss Maria Walliser and Austrian Katharina Gutensohn to win the Downhill World Cup, but had to admit they were just beaten.
The highlight of her active racing time was winning the bronze medal in the downhill at the 1982 World Ski Championships in Schladming / Haus (AUT). At the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 , she finished fifth in the downhill and 13th in the Super-G. Laurie Graham retired from active ski racing in 1988.
successes
winter Olympics
1988 Calgary Winter Olympics
- 5th place in the downhill
World championships
- Alpine World Ski Championships 1982 in Schladming / Haus: bronze medal in the downhill
- Alpine World Ski Championships 1985 in Bormio / Santa Caterina: 7th place in the downhill
- Alpine World Ski Championships 1987 in Crans-Montana: 5th place in the downhill
World cup
- 3rd place in the Downhill World Cup: 1986, 1987
- 4th place in the Downhill World Cup: 1985
- 5th place in the Downhill World Cup: 1983
6 World Cup victories (5 × downhill, 1 × Super-G)
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| March 5, 1983 | Mont-Tremblant | Canada | Departure |
| January 8, 1984 | Puy-Saint-Vincent | France | Super G |
| March 8, 1985 | Banff | Canada | Departure |
| December 13, 1985 | Val d'Isère | France | Departure |
| February 1, 1986 | Crans-Montana | Switzerland | Departure |
| December 13, 1986 | Val d'Isère | France | Departure |
Others
- 4 Canadian championship titles (Downhill 1980, 1985 and 1989; Super-G 1984)
Web links
- Laurie Graham in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Laurie Graham in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Laurie Graham in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Graham, Laurie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orangeville, Ontario |