Purple Lapanja
Purple Lapanja 
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 United States
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| birthday | 3rd December 1994 (age 25) | ||||||
| place of birth | Truckee , California | ||||||
| size | 173 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||
| society | Diamond Peak Ski Team Sugar Bowl Ski Academy |
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| status | active | ||||||
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| last change: March 15, 2020 | |||||||
Lila Lapanja (born December 3, 1994 in Truckee , California ) is an American ski racer who is also a Slovenian citizen. She specializes in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .
biography
Lila Lapanja was born in Truckee , California in 1994 and grew up in Incline Village on Lake Tahoe , Nevada . She learned to ski at the age of two with the help of her Slovenian father Vojko, a former ski racer, on Diamond Peak. She later attended the Sugar Bowl Ski Academy. In addition to English , Lapanja speaks fluent Slovene and German and is committed to the rescue of the snow leopard .
At the age of 15 she started an FIS race for the first time and took third place. After two successful winters, she was accepted into the US ski team in 2011. She took part in the Junior World Championships twice and in 2014 achieved sixth place in the slalom in Jasná as the best result. In the same season she won the slalom classification in the Nor-Am Cup for the first time . After her first three victories, she won this classification again in the 2015/16 season . In addition, she has already finished second in slalom three times (2014, 2016 and 2017) in the context of US championships.
In February 2015 she was nominated for the World Championship in Vail / Beaver Creek , but decided against participation due to an injury. Lapanja made her World Cup debut on November 28, 2015 in the Aspen slalom . At her third start she won World Cup points for the first time in January 2016, finishing 23rd in Flachau .
successes
World cup
- 1 place in the top 30
Nor-Am Cup
- Season 2012/13 : 7th combined classification, 9th slalom classification
- 2013/14 season : 7th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking
- Season 2015/16 : 4th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 9th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2016/17 : 10th slalom ranking
- Season 2017/18 : 9th overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking, 10th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2019/20 : 4th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 7th combined ranking
- 15 podium places, including 5 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 14, 2015 | panorama | Canada | slalom |
| December 15, 2015 | panorama | Canada | slalom |
| February 6, 2016 | Mont-Tremblant | Canada | slalom |
| 19th November 2019 | Copper Mountain | United States | slalom |
| 20th November 2019 | Copper Mountain | United States | slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Québec 2013 : 15th slalom, 38th giant slalom
- Jasná 2014 : 6th slalom, 17th super combination, 38th super G
More Achievements
- US runner-up in slalom in 2014, 2016 and 2017
- 9 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Lila Lapanja on the US Ski Team website
- Lila Lapanja in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Lila Lapanja in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b US Ski Team - Lila Lapanja. USSA, accessed November 13, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lapanja, purple |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd December 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Truckee |