Tim Kelley

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Tim Kelley Alpine skiing
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nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 20th May 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Burlington , United States
size 191 cm
Weight 86 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
combination
society Cochran's / Mount Mansfield
Ski & Snowboard Club
status active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 3, 2006
 Overall World Cup 118th ( 2015/16 )
 Slalom World Cup 38th (2015/16)
last change: March 23, 2016

Timothy "Tim" Kelley (born May 20, 1986 in Burlington , Vermont ) is an American ski racer . He mainly starts in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom . Tim Kelley is the son of Lindy Cochran , a successful ski racer of the 1970s, and the brother of Jessica Kelley and Robby Kelley and the cousin of Jimmy Cochran and Ryan Cochran-Siegle , who are also ski racers or were.

Career

At the age of three, Kelley learned to ski at the family-owned Cochran's Ski Area in northern Vermont. He contested his first FIS race in December 2001, appearances in the Nor-Am Cup followed from November 2003. He won his first points in the Nor-Am Cup in March 2005. In the 2005/06 season he already scored two top 10 Places in the slalom. In March 2006, Kelley took part in the Junior World Championships in the Canadian province of Québec and reached fifth place in slalom. He was also able to classify in all other competitions, placing him sixth in the combined ranking.

In the 2006/07 season , Kelley made it to the top in the Nor-Am Cup. On January 5, 2007 he was second in the Sunday River slalom for the first time on the podium and after another two podium places, he celebrated his first victory in the last race of the season, the slalom of Panorama , which brought him second place in the slalom classification and ninth place in the Overall ranking reached. As early as December 2006, he took part in a slalom in the World Cup for the first time , but failed in the first round.

In the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons , Kelley was regularly used in the World Cup. However, due to numerous failures, he did not make it into the second round in any of the 16 slaloms in which he participated in these two years. Once he also started in a super combination, in which he was also eliminated. In the Nor-Am Cup, Kelley won a super combination at Whiteface Mountain in the 2007/08 season , making him second in the discipline. At the beginning of next winter he celebrated his third victory in the Nor-Am Cup in the Slalom in Loveland , but after that he was unable to score in any race due to numerous failures, which is why he only finished 51st in the overall standings.

On January 24, 2010, Kelley contested his last World Cup race to date with the slalom in Kitzbühel . In the Nor-Am Cup he reached two top 10 placements in the 2009/10 season . Kelley has been studying at the University of Vermont in Burlington since 2011 and is now skiing for the Vermont Catamounts ski team . In addition to FIS and university races, he continues to compete in the Nor-Am Cup. In the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons he was among the top ten in two Nor-Am races.

He won his first World Cup points more than nine years after his first race at this level, when he finished twelfth in the Wengen slalom on January 17, 2016 .

successes

World cup

  • 1 place among the best 15

Nor-Am Cup

date place country discipline
March 17, 2007 panorama Canada slalom
March 12, 2008 Whiteface Mountain United States Super combination
December 3, 2008 Loveland United States slalom
15th December 2014 panorama Canada slalom
December 16, 2014 panorama Canada slalom
February 6, 2016 Mont Sainte-Anne Canada slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Québec 2006 : 5th slalom, 6th combination, 11th giant slalom, 29th Super-G, 35th downhill

More Achievements

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personal data
SURNAME Kelley, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelley, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Burlington (Vermont) , United States