| McKINNEY Tamara (USA) |
16.10.1962 Lexington/Squaw Valley
160cm / 58kg
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SKI: Dynamic
BOOTS: Tecnica
BINDING: Marker
1991 retired
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| Bormio 85 WM K/3rd |
Oslo 84 SL/1st |
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| Shiga-Kogen 89 SL |
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1983 Overall/Champion |
World Cup Ranking
General
1979/25th, 1980/14th, 1981/7th, 1982/9th,
1983/1st, 1984/3rd, 1985/8th,
1986/24th, 1987/6th, 1988/54th, 1989/11th, 1990/-
Special
1981 GS/1st, 1983 SL/2nd, 1984 SL/1st, GS/3rd,
1985 SL/2nd, 1987 SL/2nd, 1989 SL/3rd.
World Championships
1982 Schladming GS/6th.
1985 Bormio K/3rd.
1987 Crans Montana K/3rd.
1989 Vail SL/3rd, K/1st.
Olympic Games
1984 Sarajevo GS/4th.
World Cup : 18 w. (9 GS, 9 SL)
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GS: |
Haute-Nendaz 81, Les Gets 81, Aspen 81, St-Gervais
83,
Watervill 83 I,II, Vail 83, Watervill Valley
84, Zwiesel 84 |
| SL: |
Limone Piemonte 82, Davos 83, Furano 83,
Watervill Valley 84,
Oslo 84, Maribor 85, Watervill Valley 85,
Courmayeur 86, Mellau 87 |
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15 years after Canada's Nancy Greene, Tamara McKinney, a member of the
very strong US Ski Team became the only other North-American to win the
women's Overall World Cup title.
At the end of the tough 1982/83 season, she was able to defeat two former
winners, Hanny Wenzel and Erika Hess. "Tam", began racing on
the World Cup tour in 1977, was only 16 when she scored her first top-3
result in 1978 in a slalom at Piancavallo, Italy. She finally scored her
first victory in 1981 in a GS in Switzerland. In the next eight years,
she became the most successful US skier on the women's World Cup tour,
winning a total of 18 technical events (9 GS/ 9 slaloms) as well as a gold
medal in combined at the 1989 FIS World Championships in Vail, Colorado.
Born in Kentucky where her father raced horses, she moved to California
with her mother Frances when she was a child. A ski instructor, Frances
worked hard to raise her eight kid to love skiing and ski racing.
Sheila, Tamara's older sister, competed before her in the US Ski Team.
Unfortunately, she suffered a bad crash in 1977 in a World Cup downhill
in Heavenly Valley and was in a coma for weeks.
Tamara's career was marked by the tragic deaths of her parents and two
of her brothers. Steve, a speed skier, he was the first man to pass the
symbolic barrier of 200 km/h in the early 1980's.
He died in a car accident in 1990. Tamara skied with a great "touch"
and her technique was so smooth she seemed to move effortlessly down the
slope. A member of the FIS Women's Committee since 1996, she became mother
of Francesca in 1997. |
Biorama Basel |
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