Picabo Street

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Picabo Street Alpine skiing
Picabo Street (1999)
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 3rd April 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Triumph , Idaho , United States
size 169 cm
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
status resigned
End of career February 12, 2002
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Lillehammer 1994 Departure
gold Nagano 1998 Super G
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Morioka 1993 combination
gold Sierra Nevada 1996 Departure
bronze Sierra Nevada 1996 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 6, 1992
 Individual world cup victories 9
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 1994/95 )
 Downhill World Cup 1. (1994/95, 1995/96 )
 Super G World Cup 8. (1994/95)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 49th (1995/96)
 Slalom World Cup 56th ( 1992/93 )
 Combination World Cup 5. (1995/96)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 9 5 1
 Super G 0 1 1
 

Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971 in Triumph , Idaho ) is a former American ski racer . In the mid-1990s she was one of the world's most successful athletes in the downhill and super-G disciplines . She was once Olympic and world champion , she also won the downhill classification of the Ski World Cup twice and nine World Cup races. The last few years of her sports career were marked by serious injuries. Today she appears in the USA as an advertising ambassador and can be seen regularly on television shows.

biography

youth

Street's parents, staunch supporters of the hippie culture, decided at birth that the daughter should choose her name herself. Hence, she was simply called Baby Girl at first. When she needed a passport at the age of six, she was officially given the first name Picabo, after the name of a neighboring Indian settlement, which translated means "shining water". In English, the name is pronounced like the toddler game peek-a-boo (German about piekebuh ).

The street, which is considered to be extremely extroverted, spent its childhood in the winter sports resort of Sun Valley . Up until the age of 13 she grew up without television and - as a typical tomboy - played American football with the village boys . At the age of 16, however, she found her calling in skiing and decided to pursue the hobby professionally. In 1989 she was accepted into the US national team, but suffered a cruciate ligament tear in her left knee that same year . Initially, in addition to FIS races and Junior World Championships, it was mainly used in the Nor-Am Cup , which it won in the 1990/91 and 1991/92 seasons.

Sports career

On 6 December 1992 Street had its premiere in the World Cup : In slalom of Steamboat Springs drove to 22nd position and took immediately their first World Cup points. This remained her only countable slalom result, as she relied entirely on the fast disciplines. She achieved her first place in the top ten on January 15, 1993, when she was eighth on the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo . At the 1993 World Championships in Morioka , she surprisingly won the silver medal in the combination (where she drove the best time in the combined descent). On March 13, 1993 she drove in the downhill from Narvik to second place and was the first time on the podium of a World Cup race.

In the 1993/94 World Cup season, Street regularly placed in the top ten. She also won a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics ; in the downhill run, which was held in Kvitfjell , she only had to admit defeat to the German Katja Seizinger . A ski slope in Sun Valley has been called Picabo's Street ever since . During the 1994/95 season , Street won six of nine World Cup runs (five of them in a row) and thus won the discipline ranking. She was the first American woman to win the World Cup in a non-technical discipline. Although she hadn't skied a single slalom and had no points in two giant slaloms , she was fifth overall.

The 1995/96 season was similarly successful . With three more downhill victories, she won the discipline classification by a large margin for the second time in a row. At the 1996 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , she also won the downhill, plus third place in the Super-G. On December 1, 1996, Street fell badly in the Super-G of Lake Louise and tore the cruciate ligament in her left knee again, which meant she was out for the rest of the season.

The 1997/98 season was characterized by rather average results. But at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , contrary to the previous season, she was Olympic champion in the Super-G, with a hundredth of a second ahead of the Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister . Only twelve days earlier she had fallen on the downhill run from Åre and lay unconscious on the slope for a few minutes. At the World Cup final in Crans-Montana , she fell heavily again, breaking her left thigh and tearing a cruciate ligament in her right knee.

It was not until December 2000 that Street took part in a World Cup race again, but the successes of earlier years failed to materialize. The best result was a year later a fifth place in the downhill in Lake Louise. She again took part regularly in races of the Nor-Am Cup, where she won the downhill classification in the 2000/01 season. On February 12, 2002, after finishing 16th in the downhill run of the 2002 Winter Olympics , she announced her resignation.

After the resignation

After her Olympic victory in 1998, Street appeared on numerous television programs. So she was a jury member for Miss America that year . After retiring from ski racing, TV appearances became more frequent, including celebrity specials from well-known game shows such as Hollywood Squares and Pyramid , the Today Show or the reality show Celebrity Paranormal Project . In 2003 she presented the twelve-part documentary series Picabo Street's Snow Zone on OLN and in 2006 she was NBC's special correspondent for the Winter Olympics in Turin . She also appears as an advertising ambassador for numerous products, including the Mountain Dew lemonade , the Chapstick lip balm and the sporting goods manufacturer Nike .

In 2004 Street was inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame . On October 25, 2008, she married businessman John Reeser. Their son, who was born in 2004, comes from a previous relationship. She made international headlines in December 2015 after allegedly pushing and injuring her 76-year-old father Roland down the basement stairs of her Park City home . She was arrested and charged with domestic violence . Street protested that she wanted to help her hypoglycemic father and defended herself when he became aggressive. The charges were finally dropped in March 2016 after Roland Street affirmed responsibility for the incident in an affidavit .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

World Cup ratings

Picab Street won the downhill discipline twice.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1992/93 39. 189 18th 170 39. 10 - - 56. 9 - -
1993/94 36. 229 8th. 175 42. 22nd - - - - 16. 32
1994/95 5. 905 1. 709 8th. 196 - - - - - -
1995/96 6th 837 1. 640 14th 145 49. 7th - - 5. 45
1996/97 71. 50 25th 50 - - - - - - - -
1997/98 46. 156 17th 102 24. 54 - - - - - -
2000/01 68. 59 26th 59 - - - - - - - -
2001/02 52. 136 17th 136 - - - - - - - -

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
December 9, 1994 Lake Louise Canada Departure
January 22, 1995 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure
February 17, 1995 Are Sweden Departure
March 5, 1995 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria Departure
March 11, 1995 Lenzerheide Switzerland Departure
March 15, 1995 Bormio Italy Departure
December 23, 1995 Lake Louise Canada Departure
January 19, 1996 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure
February 29, 1996 Narvik Norway Departure

Nor-Am Cup

US championships

  • 4 US championship titles:
    • 2 × Super-G (1993 and 1996)
    • 2 × downhill (1994 and 1996)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Athlete and Celebrity Marketing - Picabo Street
  2. ↑ Videos of various television and advertising appearances by Picabo Street
  3. ↑ Entry into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ Olympic Skier Picabo Street Weds , People , Nov. 3, 2008
  5. ↑ Picabo Street Opens Up About Her Father's Illness, Dismissed Domestic Violence Charges. ABC News , April 13, 2016, accessed January 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Street, Picabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Triumph (Idaho) , United States