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Kathy Kreiner

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Kathy Kreiner
Kreiner-Phillips in 2010
with her 1976 Olympic gold medal
Personal information
Born(1957-05-04)May 4, 1957(age 67)
Timmins,Ontario,Canada
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesGiant slalom,slalom,
Downhill,combined
ClubTimmins Ski Club
World Cup debutJanuary 18,1972(age 14)
(first top ten)
RetiredMarch1981(age 23)
Olympics
Teams3 – (1972,1976,1980)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams5 – (1972–1980)
includes three Olympics
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons10 – (1972–1981)
Wins1 – (1GS)
Podiums7 – (6 GS, 1DH)
Overall titles0 –(10th in1974)
Discipline titles0 –(4th inGS,1977)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
RepresentingCanada
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 1 2 3
Downhill 0 1 0
Total 1 3 3
Olympic Games
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1976 Innsbruck Giant slalom

Katharine Kreiner-Phillips(born May 4, 1957) is a formerWorld Cupalpine ski racerand Olympic gold medalist fromCanada.

Career

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She won thegiant slalomat the1976 Winter OlympicsinInnsbruck,Austria.[1][2]First out of the gate onFriday the 13th,Kreiner prevented double-gold medalistRosi Mittermaierfrom sweeping the women's three alpine events, as Mittermaier won the silver medal.[3][4]It was Canada's only gold medal in Innsbruck.[5][6]

Born inTimmins,Ontario,[7]Kreiner was an alpine racing prodigy in Canada,[8]the youngest of six children of Margaret (Peggy)[9]and Harold O. Kreiner (1920–1999), a Timmins physician and her coach[10]until she made the national team.[11]He was theteam doctorfor theCanadian alpine ski teamfor the1966 World ChampionshipsinPortillo,Chile,and theCanadian Olympic teamfor the winter games in1968inGrenoble,France.[9][10][12]

Kreiner made the national 'B' team at age 13 for a year, and was promoted to the 'A' team in the summer of 1971. She had her firstWorld Cuptop ten result in mid-January1972,a sixth place in a downhill atGrindelwald,Switzerland.Three weeks later, Kreiner placed 14th in theslalomat the1972 Winter OlympicsinSapporo,Japan. She made her first World Cup podium in1973atAlyeskainAlaskain giant slalom,[13]and gained her first and only World Cup victory at age 16 in1974atPfronten,West Germany.[14]Kreiner raced ten seasons on the World Cup circuit and finished with one victory, seven podiums, and 47 top tens. After her Olympic victory, she was named the Canadian Female Athlete of the Year in 1976.[4][15]

From1948to1980,the Winter Olympics also served as theWorld Championshipsfor alpine skiing, making the Olympic champion the concurrent world champion.[4]Kreiner was immediately inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame at age 18,[16]and was also inducted into theOntario Sports Hall of Famein 2002.[17]

Kreiner's Olympic win in 1976 surprised even her; she had shipped home most of her items from Innsbruck and had to borrow a uniform for the medal ceremony.[1]Her older sisterLauriewas also a World Cup racer and two-time Olympian; she had the 28th starting position (of 43) and had tears of joy for Kathy while still in the starting gate and finished 27th.[1]Laurie had just missed an Olympic medal in1972with a fourth place in thegiant slalom.[18]

At the1980 Winter OlympicsatLake Placid,Kreiner finished fifth in thedownhilland ninth in thegiant slalom,held atWhiteface Mountain.During her final season in1981,Kreiner ascended her only World Cup podium indownhill,and raced independent of the Canadian national team.[19][20]Her sixth and final podium in giant slalom came nearly four years earlier atSun Valleyin March1977.[21]

Kreiner married Dave Phillips, a formerfreestyle skierwith theCanadian national team.As of 2020, she remains the only Olympic gold medallist from Timmins.

World Cup results

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Season standings

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Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super G Downhill Combined
1972 14 31 — — not
run		 15 not
awarded
1973 15 24 17 12 16
1974 16 10 13 8 20
1975 17 12 25 8 15
1976 18 23 — 8 — —
1977 19 13 — 4 19 not
awarded
1978 20 25 21 18 15
1979 21 71 — — 42
1980 22 31 — 20 20 12
1981 23 27 — 30 15 17
Points were only awarded for top ten (through1979) and top fifteen finishes (seescoring system).

Race podiums

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  • 1 win – (1GS)
  • 7 podiums – (6 GS, 1DH); 47 top tens
Season Date Location Discipline Place
1973 7 Mar-1973 United StatesAnchorage,AK,USA Giant slalom 3rd
1974 6 Jan 1974 West GermanyPfronten,West Germany Giant slalom 1st
1975 7 Mar 1975 CanadaGaribaldi,BC,Canada Giant slalom 3rd
1976 Austria1976 Winter Olympics
19 Mar 1976 CanadaMt. Ste. Anne,QC,Canada Giant slalom 3rd
1977 20 Jan 1977 SwitzerlandArosa,Switzerland Giant slalom 2nd
6 Mar 1977 United StatesSun Valley,ID,USA Giant slalom 2nd
1981 12 Dec 1980 FranceVal-d'I sắc re,France Downhill 2nd

World Championship results

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Year Age Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
1972 14 14 — not run 33 —
1974 16 15 DNF 7 —
1976 18 DNF1 1 19 —
1978 20 17 21 12 4
1980 22 15 9 5 4

From1948through1980,theWinter Olympicswere also theWorld Championshipsfor alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from1954through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL).

Olympic results

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Year Age Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
1972 14 14 — not run 33 not run
1976 18 DNF1 1 19
1980 22 15 9 5

Video

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References

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  1. ^abcGilbert, Doug (February 14, 1976)."Kathy collars a gold, but loses her buttons".Montreal Gazette.p. 14.
  2. ^"Golden girl".Montreal Gazette.UPI photo. February 14, 1976. p. 1.
  3. ^"Rosi misses 3-gold bid".Deseret News.(Salt Lake City, Utah). UPI. February 13, 1976. p. 1D.
  4. ^abc"Kathy Kreiner runaway choice".Montreal Gazette.Canadian Press. December 21, 1976. p. 13.
  5. ^Sufrin, Mel (February 13, 1976)."Gold at last".Ottawa Citizen.Canadian Press. p. 1.
  6. ^"1976".Montreal Gazette.Canadian Press. January 3, 1977. p. 11.
  7. ^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill;et al."Kathy Kreiner".Olympics at Sports-Reference.Sports Reference LLC.Archived fromthe originalon April 18, 2020.RetrievedDecember 15,2012.
  8. ^"Kathy Kreiner does it again".Montreal Gazette.February 9, 1970. p. 22.
  9. ^ab"Obituary for Margaret Kreiner (1921–2011)".Timmins, Ontario:Miron-Wilson Funeral Home. Archived fromthe originalon February 3, 2014.RetrievedJanuary 31,2014.
  10. ^abAllan, Chris (March 13, 1970)."Small mountain produces leader in ladies skiing".Montreal Gazette.p. 26.
  11. ^Young, Bob (March 20, 1971)."Time for bed, Kathy. Don't forget to..."Montreal Gazette.Canadian Magazine(weekly insert). p. 20.
  12. ^"Harold O. Kreiner (1920-1999)".La Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie. Archived fromthe originalon February 2, 2014.RetrievedJanuary 31,2014.
  13. ^"Kathy Kreiner is third in World Cup GS".Montreal Gazette.Associated Press. March 8, 1973. p. 17.
  14. ^"Kathy wins slalom race".Ottawa Citizen.Canadian Press. January 7, 1974. p. 15.
  15. ^"Kreiner named top Canadian athlete".Lawrence Journal World.Associated Press. December 21, 1976. p. 16.
  16. ^"Hall award to Kreiner".Spokesman-Review.(Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. February 14, 1976. p. 14.
  17. ^"Kathy Kreiner".oshof.ca.Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.Archived fromthe originalon December 28, 2014.RetrievedSeptember 25,2014.
  18. ^"Canadian fourth in slalom".Montreal Gazette.Canadian Press. February 8, 1972. p. 27.
  19. ^"Kathy Kreiner well back as Irene Epple wins GS".Montreal Gazette.Canadian Press. December 5, 1980. p. 32.
  20. ^"Kreiner expected to hang 'em up".Montreal Gazette.Canadian Press. March 10, 1981. p. 20.
  21. ^"Stenmark puts lock on World Cup title, Kathy Kreiner nipped by Morerod in GS".Montreal Gazette.Associated Press. March 7, 1977. p. 24.
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