Scott Macartney

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Scott Macartney
Personal information
Born (1978-01-19) January 19, 1978 (age 47)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation Alpine skier
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines Downhill, Super G,
Combined
Club Crystal Mountain
World Cup debutNovember 27, 1999
(age 21)
Website Scott Macartney.com
Olympics
Teams2 - (2002, 2006)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams2 - (2005, 2007)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons10
Wins0
Podiums2
Overall titles0
Discipline titles0 - (15th in SG, 2006)

Scott Macartney (born January 19, 1978) is a retired American World Cup alpine ski racer. He concentrated in the speed events of downhill and super-G.

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Biography

Born in Seattle, Washington, Macartney was raised in suburban Redmond, where his parents were public school teachers. He skied at the Crystal Mountain ski area, located 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Seattle, where his parents were members of the volunteer ski patrol on weekends. Macartney did not attend a ski academy, but graduated from Redmond High School in 1996 while working his way up through regional teams in the Northwest with limited funding. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. [1]

Macartney competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was the first racer on the course in the downhill event at Snowbasin, and finished 29th. He attained his first World Cup podium on January 29, 2006, when he placed second at the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

A few weeks later, he competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, where he finished 16th in the men's combined,
15th in the downhill and 7th in the super-G at Sestriere.

Injury at Kitzbühel

On his 30th birthday in 2008, Macartney competed in the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel, Austria. The second racer on the course, he had an excellent run going until he suffered a spectacular fall just five seconds from the finish line. After descending the steep Zielschuss section and reaching a speed of 87.75 mph (141.22 km/h), Macartney was challenging for a top ten finish. At the final jump (Zielsprung), he was twisted left while airborne, could not recover, and crashed whilst finishing the race. He was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck, said to have suffered bruising to the brain, and was put into an induced coma. [2] He regained consciousness the next day. [3] As Macartney did not miss a gate, he finished the race in 33rd place with a time of 1:55.91, 3.16 seconds behind the winner, Didier Cuche. [4] Macartney's speed at the end of the Zielschuss was the highest of the race; the next closest speed was 86.5 mph (139.2 km/h) by Bode Miller, who tied for second.

Macartney recovered from his injuries and was named to the top team ("A Team") of the U.S. Ski Team for the 2008-09 World Cup season. [5]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super GDownhillCombined
2002 2413552
2003 255513
2004 2613543
2005 27114515716
2006 2842152639
2007 29703729
2008 30703426
2009 31954436
2010 3213850

Top Ten finishes

SeasonDateLocationRacePlace
2003 19 Jan 2003 Wengen, Switzerland Combined 8th
2006 16 Dec 2005 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 7th
29 Jan 2006 Garmisch, GermanySuper-G2nd
2006 Winter Olympics
2007 1 Dec 2006 Beaver Creek, CO, USADownhill8th
2008 15 Dec 2007Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
2005 2728
2007 29 31 30

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
2002 24 25 29
2006 28 7 15 16

References

  1. skiracing.com
  2. BBC Online
  3. "Alpine skier Macartney recovering after crash". Reuters . Archived from the original on 2008-09-23.
  4. FIS-ski.com Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. U.S. Ski team

Further reading

Kahn, Jennifer (November 2009). "Scott Macartney's Comeback". Outside . Santa Fe, New Mexico: Mariah Media.