Nikki Keddie
Nikki Keddie ![]() |
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Full name | Nicole Keddie |
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birthday | July 6, 1975 |
place of birth | Toronto |
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society | Canmore Nordic Ski Club |
Debut in the World Cup | 1994 |
status | resigned |
End of career | 2000 |
World Cup balance | |
last change: January 15, 2009 |
Nicole "Nikki" Keddie (born July 6, 1975 in Toronto ) is a former Canadian biathlete . Between 1995 and 1998 she took part in a total of four Olympic Winter Games and Biathlon World Championships .
Nikki Keddie lives in Canmore and studied psychology at the University of Calgary . The athlete from Canmore Nordic Ski Club began biathlon in 1990 and has competed in international competitions since 1994. She contested her first race in Hinton , where she was 30th of the individual. At first she was mostly placed in the middle and rear area of the starting field. The first highlight was the 1995 biathlon world championships in Antholz , where Keddie was 58th in the individual and 70th in the sprint. The following 1996/97 season would be their best. In Antholz, as 13th of an individual, she not only won her first World Cup points, but also achieved her best international result. Shortly afterwards she was 15th again in Osrblie . In the overall ranking of the season, the Canadian took 47th place. The 1996 Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding brought better results than the year before with 54th place in the individual and 58th in the sprint Do not confirm results beforehand. With the relay, which also included Inger-Kristin Berg , Myriam Bedard and Michelle Collard , she was in 12th place. The World Cup races in the next few seasons were mixed, and Keddie did not win any more points. She ran her last world championships in 1997 in Osrblie. In Slovakia, the Canadian was 69th in the individual, 47th in the sprint race, 18th in the relay and 14th in the team race. The high point of her career, however, were the competitions in Nozawa Onsen , which took place as part of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In the individual she came on the 60th, with Berg, Bedard and Collard in the relay on the 17th and last place. Keddie still ran sporadically in the World Cup until 2000 and then ended her active career.
Biathlon World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
- 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
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2nd place | |||||||
3rd place | |||||||
Top 10 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Scoring | 2 | 2 | 8th | 12 | |||
Starts | 18th | 23 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 55 |
Web links
- Nikki Keddie in the database of the IBU (English)
- Nikki Keddie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Keddie, Nikki |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keddie, Nicole |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |