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Full name | Cristian Javier Simari Birkner |
Born | Bariloche, Argentina | 4 October 1980
Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
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Sport | Alpine skiing |
Club | Club Andino Bariloche |
Cristian Javier Simari Birkner (born 4 October 1980 in San Carlos de Bariloche) is an Argentine alpine skier. He competed in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. [1] [2] He served as Argentina's flag bearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. [3] and followed in 2014 as flagbearer. [4] He is the brother of fellow alpine skiers María Belén Simari Birkner and Macarena Simari Birkner. [5]
Argentina competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Noel Baxter is a Scottish alpine skier from Aviemore. He represented Britain at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
Macarena María Simari Birkner is a female skier from Argentina. She has represented Argentina in 2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Olympics, in the Alpine skiing events. She also took part in the 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup, where she came 20th in the women's combined, and in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009. She is the sister of fellow alpine skiers Cristian Simari Birkner and María Belén Simari Birkner. She was in a relationship with British former alpine skier Noel Baxter, with whom she has a child. Simari Birkner has completed all the five Alpine Ski events in both 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games, a record she shares with pluri-medalist Tina Maze.
María Belén Simari Birkner is a female skier from Argentina. She has represented Argentina in both the 2006 and the 2010 Winter Olympics, in the Alpine skiing events. She also took part in the 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup, where she came 28th in the women's combined, and in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009. She is the sister of fellow alpine skiers Cristian Simari Birkner and Macarena Simari Birkner.
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