Marco Sullivan

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Marco Sullivan
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The U.S. alpine skier Marco Sullivan
Personal information
Born (1980-04-27) April 27, 1980 (age 43)
Truckee, California, U.S.
Occupation Alpine skier
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, Super G, Combined
Club Squaw Valley Ski Team
World Cup debutDecember 7, 2001 (age 21)
RetiredMarch 13, 2016 (age 35)
Website americandownhiller.com
Olympics
Teams4 – (2002–2014)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams4 – (2003, '07, '09, '13)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons13 – (2002, '03, '06–16)
Wins1 – (1 DH)
Podiums4 – (4 DH)
Overall titles0 – (28th in 2008)
Discipline titles0 – (4th in DH, 2008)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Junior World Ski Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2000 QuebecSlalom

Marco Sullivan (born April 27, 1980) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in Truckee, California, [2] he competed primarily in the speed events of Downhill and Super G.

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Sullivan competed in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, and four World Championships. He won one World Cup race, a downhill in Chamonix, France, in January 2008.

World Cup

Sullivan made his World Cup debut in December 2001, and took one victory, the renowned downhill in Chamonix, France, on January 26, 2008. [2] [3] He won the race in 2:00.11, ahead of Swiss star Didier Cuche. [4]

In early December 2003, Sullivan injured his knee in a downhill training run at Beaver Creek. It happened at the last jump of the Birds of Prey course and caused him to miss the rest of the 2004 season. While training in France in October 2004, Sullivan injured the same knee again and was out for the 2005 season as well. [5] [6]

Sullivan attained his first World Cup podium on November 24, 2007, when he finished second at the season's first downhill at Lake Louise, a good-for-gliders course in the Canadian Rockies. His victory at Chamonix came two months later, [3] and he went on to finish fourth in the World Cup downhill standings, the best seasonal result of his career. [7]

In late December 2010, Sullivan crashed during a training run on the Stelvio course at Bormio, Italy (video). He sustained a concussion which ended his 2011 season, including the World Championships. After two months, he was cleared by doctors to get back on skis in early March. [8]

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom		Super GDownhillCombined
2002 21144———55—
2003 2255——2620—
2004 23
2005 24
2006 2586——3931—
2007 2652———2442
2008 2726——304—
2009 2830——1315—
2010 2965——2529—
2011 30167——59——
2012 3193——4537—
2013 3255———14—
2014 3372———28—
2015 3447——5319—
2016 35104———37—

Top ten finishes

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2003 7 Dec 2002 Beaver Creek, USA Downhill 6th
2007 1 Dec 2006Beaver Creek, USADownhill10th
16 Dec 2006 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill4th
2008 24 Nov 2007 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill2nd
13 Jan 2008 Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill7th
18 Jan 2008 Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G 10th
19 Jan 2008Downhill6th
26 Jan 2008 Chamonix, FranceDownhill1st
2009 30 Nov 2008Lake Louise, CanadaSuper G5th
19 Dec 2008Val Gardena, ItalySuper G5th
20 Dec 2008Super G4th
17 Jan 2009Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill3rd
2013 24 Nov 2012Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 		Super GDownhillCombined
2003 22——1724—
2005 24injured – did not compete
2007 26 — — — 28 —
2009 28 — — DNF 25 —
2011 30injured – did not compete
2013 32 — — — DNF —

Sullivan took a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 2000 in the slalom. [7] He first raced in the World Championships in 2003 and finished 17th in the Super-G and 24th in the Downhill. [2] He missed the 2005 and 2011 events due to injury.

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 		Super GDownhillCombined
2002 21 — — DNF 9 —
2006 25 — — — DNS —
2010 29 — — 23 DSQ —
2014 33 — — — 30 —

In his Olympic debut in the downhill in 2002, Sullivan finished a surprising ninth on the Grizzly course at Snowbasin, Utah. [9] [10] [11] He was the 31st racer out of the starting gate and was the sole North American among the top fifteen finishers.

U.S. Ski Championships

Sullivan was the Downhill champion at the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2007 in the Alyeska Resort in Alaska; he finished more than a full second ahead of runner-up Erik Fisher. [12] He won three national titles in total, having previously won the super-G at Squaw Valley in 2002 and going on to win another downhill championship at Alyeska in 2009. [7]

Arctic Man

Sullivan and his partner Tyler Akelstad are five-time champions in the extreme ski/snowmachine race in Alaska - Arctic Man. Sullivan and Akelstad hold the record for the men's ski division, having completed the race with a time of 03:52.72. This was the first time that the four minute threshold was broken.[ citation needed ]

Movies

SKI Magazine column

During the 2012 season, Sullivan has written columns for SKI mag.com, giving insight to life on the World Cup circuit, which includes spending Christmas in Bormio. [13] [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios – MARCO SULLIVAN". United States Ski Team . Archived from the original on 2008-02-13.
  2. 1 2 3 Marco Sullivan at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  3. 1 2 "Sullivan breaks through in World Cup downhill". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). wire services. January 27, 2008. p. D2.
  4. ↑ "Sullivan Wins Chamonix Downhill". U.S. Ski Team . January 26, 2008.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ Ski Racing.com – Healthy Marco Sullivan takes giant step forward, finishing downhill training run – 2005-11-23 – accessed 2012-02-06
  6. ↑ SKI Mag.com – Sullivan reinjures knee, season over – 2004-10-29 – accessed 2012-02-06
  7. 1 2 3 "Marco Sullivan". U.S. Ski & Snowboard . Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  8. ↑ 3wiresports.com – Marco Sullivan ready to run downhill – 2011-11-30 – accessed 2012-02-06
  9. ↑ Layden, Tim (February 18, 2002). "Grizzly Bear". Sports Illustrated. p. 46.
  10. ↑ "Strobl's downhill shock". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. February 11, 2002. p. C6.
  11. ↑ Pennington, Bill (February 11, 2002). "Austria's downhill dominance returns". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (New York Times). p. 1E.
  12. ↑ "Sullivan wins downhill; Bode Miller 12th". Anchorage Daily News . March 31, 2007. Archived from the original on March 14, 2008.
  13. ↑ SKI Mag.com – Marco Sullivan: World Cup season starts with a bang – December 2011
  14. ↑ SKI Mag.com – Marco Sullivan: Christmas in Bormio – December 2011
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