Richard Durrance
Richard "Dick" Durrance (born October 14, 1914 in Tarpon Springs , Florida, † June 13, 2004 in Carbondale , Colorado, USA) was a 17-time American ski winner and one of the first American skiers to was able to successfully compete with European skiers.
Dick Durrance moved to Garmisch with his family in 1928 . In Germany Durrance won the German Junior Alpine Ski Championship in 1932. In the following year he learned from Anton Seelos in Seefeld the parallel swing he had developed . He attended the 1934 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire , winning in Sestriere ( Italy ) the first American to a major European skiing. Durrance also won the US Men's Downhill , Slalom and Alpine-related events in 1937 and was inducted into the US Olympic Team in 1936 . He finished eighth in the slalom race and eleventh in the downhill race.
statistics
| discipline | space | |
| Garmisch-Part. 1936 | Alpine combination | 10. |
Web links
- HickokSports.com: Dick Durrance ( memento from November 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) English
- ESPN obituary for Durrance English
Individual evidence
- ^ John Fry: The Story of Modern Skiing Verlag UPNE 2006, ISBN 9781584654896 , p. 20, English ( Google Book Preview ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Durrance, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Durrance, Dick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tarpon Springs , Florida, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2004 |
| Place of death | Carbondale , Colorado |