Kerrin Lee-Gartner
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| Disciplines |
Downhill, Super G, Giant slalom, Combined |
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| Club | Red Mountain Racers | ||||||||||||
| Born |
September 21, 1966 Trail, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | March 10, 1985 (age 18) (first top 15 finish) |
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| Retired | March 1994 (age 27) | ||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (1988, 1992, 1994) | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (1989, 1991, 1993) | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||
| Seasons | 9 – (1985, 1987–94) | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Podiums | 6 – (4 DH, 2 SG) | ||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (9th in 1993) | ||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (3rd in DH, 1993) | ||||||||||||
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Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.
Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions. She attained her first World Cup podium early in December 1990, then had five more top-six finishes early in the 1992 season entering the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.
On the Roc de Fer course at Méribel, Lee-Gartner won the gold medal in the Olympic downhill. Only 0.06 seconds behind was silver medalist Hilary Lindh of the U.S., for a North American 1–2 finish. Through 2014, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian. She finished sixth in the Olympic super-G and had two more podiums after the Olympics, both in North America, to finish up the 1992 season.
Lee-Gartner's next season in 1993 was her best on the World Cup circuit, with two podiums and twelve top tens. She finished third in the downhill standings and ninth overall. At the World Championships in Japan, she was fourth in the super-G and ninth in the downhill.
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