Wiley Maple

Wiley Maple
nation	United States
birthday	25th May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Aspen , United States
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , combination
society	Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 15, 2011  Overall World Cup 115th ( 2014/15 )  Downhill World Cup 44th ( 2017/18 )  Super G World Cup 46th (2015/16)

Wiley Maple (born May 25, 1990 in Aspen , Colorado ) is a retired American ski racer . His strongest disciplines were downhill and super-G . He won the downhill classification in the Nor-Am Cup in the 2010/11 season .

biography

Maple has been competing in FIS races since 2005 , first appearances in the Nor-Am Cup followed in February 2007. One month later he became the US junior downhill champion. He took part in the Junior World Championships from 2008 to 2010. His best result was a sixth place in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2009 . In the Nor-Am Cup, Maple achieved placements among the top ten for the first time in the 2008/2009 season; on February 21, 2010 he stood on the podium for the first time as third in the Aspen Super-G . He celebrated his first victory in the Nor-Am Cup on December 8, 2010 in the downhill from Lake Louise . With another win on February 14, 2011 in Aspen, Maple won the downhill classification of the Nor-Am Cup 2010/11 .

In the World Cup , Maple made his debut on January 15, 2011 in the Wengen Downhill . He won his first World Cup points on December 16, 2011 with 29th place in the Super-G in Val Gardena . At the end of February he had to end the 2011/2012 season prematurely because of a torn cruciate ligament . Maple's best World Cup result so far is 17th in the downhill run from Saalbach-Hinterglemm on February 21, 2015.

For the 2015/16 season , Maple started again in the World Cup. He won the first World Cup points of the season in January 2016 as 26th of the Super-G in Kitzbühel . After placing more points, he finished the season with 21 points in 121st place overall. At the end of the season he started again in the Nor-Am Cup and won the downhill race in Aspen. After remaining without a point win in the World Cup in the following year 2016/17, he again won a total of 18 points in the 2017/18 season , which meant that he was only one last place in the overall standings.

In December 2019, Maple contested his last international race in Bormio .

successes

Olympic games

• Pyeongchang 2018 : 30th departure

World cup

• 1 place in the top 20

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2011/12	147.	2	-	-	61.	2
2014/15	115.	23	47.	23	-	-
2015/16	121.	21st	53.	8th	46.	13
2017/18	122.	18th	44.	16	51.	2
2018/19	152.	3	57.	3	-	-

Nor-Am Cup

• 2008/09 season : 9th downhill classification
• Season 2009/10 : 8th Super-G rating
• 2010/11 season : 9th overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking
• 2011/12 season : 9th downhill classification
• 2012/13 season : 8th downhill classification
• 2015/16 season : 3rd downhill classification
• 2017/18 season : 5th downhill classification
• Season 2019/20 : 5th downhill classification
• 8 podium places, including 3 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
December 8, 2010	Lake Louise	Canada	Departure
February 14, 2011	Aspen	United States	Departure
March 13, 2016	Aspen	United States	Departure

Junior World Championships

• Formigal 2008 : 15th Super-G, 25th Downhill
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2009 : 6th downhill, 17th super-G
• Mont Blanc 2010 : 9th downhill, 14th Super-G, 40th giant slalom

More Achievements

• 1 victory in the European Cup (departure in Val-d'Isère on January 23, 2013)
• American Junior Downhill Champion 2007
• 1 victory in FIS races

Web links

• Wiley Maple in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Wiley Maple in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Wiley Maple on the US ski team's website