Robbie Dixon

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Robbie Dixon Alpine skiing
Robbie Dixon on the departure of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Full name Robert Dixon
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 4th January 1985 (age 35)
place of birth North Vancouver , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 84 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
giant slalom , super combination
society Whistler Mountain Ski Club
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 26, 2006
 Overall World Cup 42nd ( 2009/10 )
 Downhill World Cup 20th ( 2008/09 )
 Super G World Cup 19th (2008/09)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 34th (2009/10)
last change: March 18, 2014

Robert ("Robbie") Dixon (born January 4, 1985 in North Vancouver ) is a Canadian ski racer . His strongest disciplines are downhill and super-G , but he also starts in giant slalom and super-combined .

biography

Dixon played his first FIS races in December 2000. It followed five seasons with numerous appearances in national championships, in the Nor-Am Cup and in the European Cup , until he was accepted into the Canadian national team in 2005. In the 2005/06 season he was fifth in the Nor-Am overall classification and second in the Super-G classification .

On November 26, 2006 Dixon contested his first race in the World Cup and was 46th in the Super-G in Lake Louise . He won his first World Cup points on January 18, 2008 when he surprised the competition with the number 43 in the Super-G on the Streif in Kitzbühel and finished in 6th place. His first best World Cup result he achieved on March 2, 2008 as fourth on the downhill from Kvitfjell . In the next two years he also made it into the top ten several times. But he had to interrupt the 2009/10 season at the turn of the year due to a head injury. After that, he only took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver that winter , where he was 24th in the giant slalom, but was eliminated in downhill and super-G. At the World Championships last year he was 20th in the Super-G and 21st in the giant slalom.

The 2010/11 season ended for Dixon in late December. After a fall on the descent of Bormio , he did not take part in any races for the rest of the winter. At the beginning of next winter, on December 3, 2011, he equalized his best World Cup result with fourth place in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . In the remainder of the 2011/12 season, however, he drove only one more time among the fastest 20. The 2012/13 season Dixon had to end early again. Even before his first World Cup start, he had a bad fall on an FIS downhill run in Copper Mountain in mid-November , with fractures of the right tibia and fibula .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 4 placements among the top five

Nor-Am Cup

  • Season 2005/06 : 5th overall, the second super-G standings, sixth downhill rating
  • Season 2008/09 : 5th giant slalom ranking
  • Season 2013/14 : 9. Departure rating
  • 7 podium places, including 4 wins

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ USA's Bode Miller back on the top in Wengen super combined.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SCR Magazine, January 15, 2010, accessed November 29, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srcmag.ca  
  2. ↑ Season end for Canadian Dixon after his fall. sport.orf.at, November 16, 2012, accessed on November 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dixon, Robbie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dixon, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH North Vancouver , Canada