Nina O'Brien
Nina O'Brien 
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 United States
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| birthday | 29th November 1997 (age 22) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | San Francisco , United States | ||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| society | Burke Mountain Academy | ||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||
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| last change: March 13, 2020 | |||||||||||
Nina O'Brien (born November 29, 1997 in San Francisco , California ) is an American ski racer . She is currently part of the US Ski Team's B squad and competes in all disciplines.
biography
Nina O'Brien is from San Francisco and attended Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont . She now lives in Denver , Colorado , and studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire , from where she and a fellow student write a column for the online magazine Ski Racing .
At the age of 16, O'Brien competed in her first races in the Nor-Am Cup in Colorado . In her first full season 2013/14 , she was able to classify a total of 14 points in all five disciplines. In March 2015 she took in Hafjell first time at a World Junior Championships in part, finishing the ranks 24 and 30 in super combined and super-G . In three other participations she was able to improve slightly and achieved her best result with ninth place in the combination in Davos 2018 . At the end of her second Nor-Am season in March 2015, she surprisingly won the state championship in giant slalom by beating her more experienced colleagues Paula Moltzan and Megan McJames . In the 2016/17 season she achieved her breakthrough in the Nor-Am Cup with two victories and she finished second in the overall standings behind the Canadian Ali Nullmeyer . In the following season, she also finished second behind the Canadian Roni Remme .
On November 26, 2016, O'Brien made her World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Killington and then made regular appearances in giant slalom and slalom. In March 2018 she won the state championship titles in Super-G and Slalom in Sun Valley . Two years after her World Cup debut, she reached a second round in the Killington slalom for the first time and was able to win her first World Cup points with rank 23. In January 2019, she achieved this for the first time in a giant slalom, finishing 26th on Kronplatz . With a total of nine wins and nine further podium places, she decided the overall, super-G, giant slalom and slalom rankings in the Nor-Am Cup 2018/19 .
In January 2020, with eleventh place in the parallel giant slalom in Sestriere , she barely missed her first top 10 result in the World Cup.
successes
World championships
- Åre 2019 : 28th giant slalom, 34th slalom
World cup
- 1 place among the best 15
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | Parallel | ||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2018/19 | 110. | 13 | 53. | 5 | 52. | 8th | - | - |
| 2019/20 | 74. | 53 | 37. | 20th | 50. | 2 | 19th | 31 |
Nor-Am Cup
- 2015/16 season : 5th overall ranking, 2nd combined ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking, 8th slalom ranking, 10th downhill ranking
- Season 2016/17 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st combined ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking, 3rd slalom ranking, 4th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2017/18 : 2nd overall ranking, 2nd Super-G ranking, 5th slalom ranking, 6th downhill ranking, 8th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2018/19 : 1st overall ranking, 1st Super-G ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 1st slalom ranking, 3rd combined ranking, 6th downhill ranking
- 31 podium places, including 14 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 11, 2017 | Copper Mountain | United States | combination |
| 19th March 2017 | Garceau | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 15th February 2018 | Whiteface Mountain | United States | slalom |
| February 16, 2018 | Whiteface Mountain | United States | slalom |
| December 10, 2018 | panorama | Canada | Super G |
| December 12, 2018 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 2nd January 2019 | Georgian Peaks | Canada | Giant slalom |
| 3rd January 2019 | Georgian Peaks | Canada | Giant slalom |
| January 6, 2019 | Osler Bluff | Canada | slalom |
| 15th March 2019 | Stowe Mountain | United States | Giant slalom |
| 19th March 2019 | Sugarloaf | United States | Departure |
| 20th March 2019 | Sugarloaf | United States | Super G |
| March 21, 2019 | Sugarloaf | United States | combination |
| 4th January 2020 | Burke Mountain | United States | slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Hafjell 2015 : 24th combination, 30th super-G
- Sochi 2016 : 12th combination, 21st slalom, 24th giant slalom, 30th Super-G, 37th descent
- Åre 2017 : 15th slalom, 15th combination, 24th descent, 28th Super-G
- Davos 2018 : 9th combination, 11th giant slalom, 12th descent, 16th super-G
More Achievements
- 3 US championship titles (giant slalom 2015, super-G and slalom 2018)
- 2 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Nina O'Brien in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Nina O'Brien in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nina O'Brien. Eurosport , accessed January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Nina O'Brien. US Ski & Snowboard, accessed January 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | O'Brien, Nina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |