Nancy Greene

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Nancy Greene Alpine skiing
Nancy Greene (2000)
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 11th May 1943 (age 77)
place of birth Ottawa , Canada
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom , slalom
status resigned
End of career 1968
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom
silver Grenoble 1968 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom
gold Grenoble 1968 combination
silver Grenoble 1968 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 7th January 1967
 Individual world cup victories 14th
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1967 , 1968 )
 Downhill World Cup 4th (1968)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1967, 1968)
 Slalom World Cup 3rd (1967)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 0 0
 Giant slalom 8th 0 2
 slalom 3 2 2
 

Nancy Greene , OC , OBC (born May 11, 1943 in Ottawa ) is a former Canadian ski racer and politician ( Conservative Party ). At the end of the 1960s she was one of the world's most successful female athletes. After her resignation she worked as a trainer and was involved in setting up a winter sports station. From 2009 to 2018 she was a member of the Canadian Senate, representing British Columbia .

biography

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , she became Olympic champion in giant slalom . The "Tigress", as she was called because of her aggressive driving style, won with a margin of 2.64 seconds over the French Annie Famose ; this is the largest lead ever recorded in an Olympic or world championship race. In the slalom she won the silver medal behind Marielle Goitschel . In addition to the Olympic medals, she also won the title of world champion in the combination in Grenoble . In the same year she was awarded the Skieur d'Or by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .

Greene became the first ever overall World Cup winner in 1967 and also won the Giant Slalom World Cup. The decision in the overall standings was made in the last race (the slalom in Jackson Hole on March 26th), where she was 0.07 seconds faster than her opponent Marielle Goitschel; in the end she was four points ahead. She was able to repeat both successes in the following year. In total, she won 14 world cup races (3 downhill runs, 8 giant slaloms and 3 slaloms), including three wins at the SDS races in Grindelwald and two wins at the Staufen Cup in Oberstaufen . Before the World Cup was introduced, she had won the slalom of the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein in 1966 . In addition, she was six times Canadian national champion and won three times at the championships in the USA .

After her resignation she was, according to a report in the “Volkszeitung Kärnten” No. 165 of July 21, 1968, page 3, POS. Box on the bottom left (“After Jean-Claude also Nancy”) - like Jean-Claude Killy before - entered the service of “General Motors”. As it was said, “GM” expected from Greene's work that “it would direct the interest of young people who are enthusiastic about sports in particular to the group's sporty models. The sporty, youthful appearance of Nancy Greene and the sporty note of the models form a harmonious complement to this endeavor ”.

Subsequently, she was the coach of the Canadian national ski team until 1973. Together with her husband, the mother of twins played a key role in setting up the Whistler-Blackcomb winter sports center near Vancouver . Greene has been promoting young athletes for many years; the Nancy Greene Ski League is a major racing series for young Canadian riders.

Nancy Greene received the Order of Canada , the highest honor in her country for civilians , for her services . In the Monashee Mountains , Nancy Green Provincial Park and Nancy Greene Lake are named after her. In 1999 she was voted Canadian Sportswoman of the Century.

Greene has been Chancellor of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops since 2005 . In December 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper named her a senator ; in Parliament in Ottawa she was a member of the Conservative Party until her resignation in 2018 .

At the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver Greene belonged together with Wayne Gretzky , Catriona LeMay Doan and Steve Nash to the cage rotors of the Olympic torch relay and lit the Olympic flame in BC Place Stadium , together with Gretzky and Nash.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Nancy Greene won the overall World Cup and the discipline classification in giant slalom in the 1967 and 1968 seasons .

season total Departure Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1967 1. 176 6th 36 1. 75 3. 65
1968 1. 191 4th 51 1. 75 4th 65

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
7th January 1967 Oberstaufen Germany slalom
January 8, 1967 Oberstaufen Germany Giant slalom
January 11, 1967 Grindelwald Switzerland Giant slalom
January 13, 1967 Grindelwald Switzerland Departure
March 19, 1967 Vail United States Giant slalom
March 26, 1967 Jackson Hole United States slalom
March 26, 1967 Jackson Hole United States Giant slalom
January 10, 1968 Grindelwald Switzerland Giant slalom
15th February 1968 Grenoble * France Giant slalom
February 23, 1968 Chamonix France Departure
March 15, 1968 Aspen United States Departure
March 16, 1968 Aspen United States slalom
17th March 1968 Aspen United States Giant slalom
March 31, 1968 Rossland Canada Giant slalom

* In 1968, the results of the Olympic races also counted for the World Cup

Arlberg-Kandahar

In addition to winning the World Cup downhill run, she also won the slalom and combi win in Chamonix in 1968 .

Canadian Championships

Greene has won a Canadian Championship 18 times , more than any other athlete.

  • Departure: 1963, 1965, 1966
  • Giant slalom: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
  • Slalom: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
  • Combination: 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968

Awards

Works

  • Nancy Greene, Jack Batten: Nancy Greene: An Autobiography . Pagurian Press, Toronto 1968, LCCN  78-393661 .
  • Nancy Greene, Al Raine: Alpine Skiing . Prentice-Hall of Canada, Scarborough 1975, ISBN 0-13-022798-6 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Greene, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa