Rick Mewborn

Rick Mewborn
1985 press photo
Full name	Richard Lee Mewborn
nation	United States
birthday	March 28, 1965
place of birth	Carlsbad ,  USA
size	173 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
National squad	since 1984
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1984
Overall World Cup	26. ( 1985/86 )

Richard Lee Mewborn , called Rick Mewborn (born March 28, 1965 in Carlsbad , New Mexico ) is a former American ski jumper .

Career

Mewborn jumped on December 30, 1984 as part of the Four Hills Tournament 1984/85 for the first time in the ski jumping World Cup . However, he was rather unsuccessful over the entire course of the tour. At the 1985 Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , which took place shortly afterwards , he jumped to 5th place in team competition with Nils Stolzlechner , Mark Konopacke and Mike Holland . In the following World Cup competition in Örnsköldsvik , he achieved his first World Cup points with 10th place.

The beginning of the World Cup season 1985/86 was just as positive as the last one had ended. He again achieved World Cup points in Thunder Bay and Lake Placid . At the Four Hills Tournament 1985/86 he was again unlucky, but was able to achieve the best result of his career in the first competition after the tour with 6th place. At the end of the season he finished 26th in the overall World Cup ranking with 25 World Cup points.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 , Mewborn reached 54th place on the normal hill.

After the Games, Mewborn ended his active ski jumping career at the age of just 22.

Web links

• Rick Mewborn in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Rick Mewborn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )