Kerrin Lee-Gartner

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Kerrin Lee-Gartner
Personal information
Born (1966-09-21) September 21, 1966 (age 57)
Trail, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation Alpine skier
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, Combined
Club Red Mountain Racers
World Cup debutMarch 10, 1985 (age 18)
(first top 15 finish)
RetiredMarch 1994 (age 27)
Olympics
Teams3 – (1988, 1992, 1994)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams3 – (1989, 1991, 1993)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons9 – (1985, 198794)
Wins0
Podiums6 – (4 DH, 2 SG)
Overall titles0 – (9th in 1993)
Discipline titles0 – (3rd in DH, 1993)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1992 Albertville Downhill

Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada.

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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 medallist Hilary Lindh of the U.S., for a North American 1–2 finish. [1] Through 2018, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian. [2] 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.

Leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friend Ulrike Maier after a crash in a downhill race in late January. [3] [4] At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in the super-G and 19th in the downhill, and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the 1994 World Cup season.

Lee-Gartner is currently a television broadcaster with CBC Sports in Canada. She also assisted the BBC with coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. [5]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
1985 188243
1986 19
1987 207732
1988 2148261016
1989 22512422
1990 234914
1991 2416169
1992 25142974
1993 269267319
1994 2734341128

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
1991 Dec 28, 1990 Altenmarkt, Austria Downhill 3rd
1992 Mar 7, 1992 Vail, CO, USADownhill2nd
Mar 15, 1992 Panorama, British Columbia, Canada Super-G 2nd
1993 Dec 12, 1992Vail, CO, USADownhill3rd
Feb 26, 1993   Veysonnaz, SwitzerlandDownhill2nd
1994 Jan 15, 1994 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy  Super-G3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
1989 22DNF2079
1991 2424167DNF SL
1993 26234917

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
1988 21 17 23 15 8
1992 25 6 1 DQ SL1
1994 27 8 19

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During May 2018, Lee-Gartner was part of a group of four female athletes, including Cassie Campbell, Jen Kish and Fran Rider to publicly pledge their brain to a Canadian research centre. The posthumous donation shall be made to Toronto Western Hospital’s Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women's brains. [6]

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