Leanne Smith
Leanne Smith 
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 Leanne Smith in February 2017 |
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| birthday | 28th May 1987 (age 33) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | North Conway , United States | ||||||||||
| size | 165 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg | ||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , Super-G , combination | ||||||||||
| society | Mount Washington Valley Ski Team | ||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||
| End of career | April 22, 2017 | ||||||||||
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Leanne Smith (born May 28, 1987 in North Conway , New Hampshire ) is a former American ski racer . She specialized in the downhill , super-G and combination disciplines.
biography
Smith took part in their first FIS races in December 2002 , and from November 2004 they played in the Nor-Am Cup , the North American continental championship. After a year at the University of New Hampshire , she interrupted her studies in 2006 to focus entirely on skiing. In the 2006/07 season she was the overall winner of the Nor-Am Cup; In addition, there was victory in the Super G classification.
On December 1, 2007, Smith contested her first World Cup race, the Lake Louise downhill . She achieved 23rd place and got World Cup points right away. The next day she finished 19th in the Super-G for the first time among the top 20. In the 2009/10 season she was among the fastest 20 in four World Cup races and reached 15th place on the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 23, 2010 . her best result of the season. She also won a European Cup downhill run in Caspoggio and was American downhill champion. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , she was 18th in the Super-G and 21st in the Super Combined.
Smith reached her first Top 10 World Cup result on January 21, 2011 with eighth place in the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she only finished 19th in Super-G, while she failed or was disqualified in Downhill and Super Combined. At the end of the 2011/12 World Cup season , in which she mostly achieved results similar to the previous year, Smith achieved her best ever World Cup result with fifth place in the Super-G in Schladming . She achieved her first podium on December 14, 2012, finishing second on the downhill from Val-d'Isère . Another podium followed on January 19, 2013 with third place in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo .
In the 2013/14 season , a sixth place was Smith's best World Cup result. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she was ranked 18th in the Super-G. Due to injury, she had to break off the 2014/15 season after a short time, while she even had to skip the 2015/16 season entirely. Smith attempted a comeback in the 2016/17 season, but was far from building on her earlier performances. Finally, on April 22, 2017, she announced her retirement from top-class sport.
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 18th Super G, 21st Super Combined
- Sochi 2014 : 18th Super-G
World championships
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 19th Super-G
- Schladming 2013 : 12th descent, 16th Super-G
World cup
- 10 placements among the top ten, including 2 podium places
Nor-Am Cup
- Season 2006/07 : overall winner, the first super-G standings, fifth combination ranking, sixth downhill standings, 6. Giant Slalom Score
- Season 2016/17 : 9th downhill classification
- 10 podium places, including 2 wins
Junior World Championships
- Altenmarkt / Flachau 2007 : 10th Super-G, 15th descent, 35th giant slalom
More Achievements
- American downhill champion 2010
- 1 win in the European Cup
- 1 podium in the South American Cup
- 11 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Leanne Smith in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Leanne Smith in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Leanne Smith in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Next resignation - Leanne Smith has had enough. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, April 22, 2017, archived from the original on April 23, 2017 ; Retrieved April 23, 2017 . 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.
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| SURNAME | Smith, Leanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North Conway , New Hampshire |