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| Born | (2001-12-01)1 December 2001 (age 23) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Giant slalom, Super-G | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Queenstown Alpine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 6 January2018 (age 16) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 2 − (2018,2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 4 − (2019–2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 8 – (2018–2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 4 – (4GS) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 17 – (17 GS) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 –(7th in2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 –(2nd inGS, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Alice Robinson (born 1 December 2001) is a New ZealandWorld Cupalpine ski racer. At age sixteen, she competed at the2018 Winter Olympics ingiant slalom andslalom.[1] She represented New Zealand in the giant slalom event at the2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[2]
Robinson was born inSydney,Australia, the second of three children of Sarah and David Robinson. Her parents moved toQueenstown permanently when Robinson was four.[3] She started her ski racing career atCoronet Peak with the Queenstown Alpine Ski Team and also trained inCalifornia,United States, with theSugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy based inTahoe City during the northern hemisphere winter.[4] From 2016 to 2019, Robinson was coached predominately by former New Zealand OlympianTim Cafe.[5] She attendedWakatipu High School in Queenstown.[6]
Robinson won the under-14 and under-16 New Zealand titles before beginning her international career.[7] She won the girls’ U14 giant slalom and parallel slalom in April 2015 inCanada at theWhistler Cup, one of the largest and most important junior ski races on the international calendar.[8] and in 2017 she won the U16 giant slalom and finished second in slalom at ‘Pokal Loka inKranjska Gora,Slovenia.[9] Robinson also won theUSSA U16 national championship giant slalom atSnowbird, Utah, and was runner-up in the super-G.[10]
Robinson was third in her debut FIS race on 30 July 2017 atCardrona, then won the giant slalom the next day.[11][12]
On 10 August, fifteen-year-old Robinson won the New Zealand Alpine National Championships for slalom and giant slalom atCoronet Peak.[13] On 16 December, she won her firstNorth America Cup (NorAm) giant slalom race atPanorama, Canada. Her 8.70 FIS point result is the best any New Zealand skier has achieved in their first year of senior competition.[14] Robinson made herWorld Cup debut on 6 January 2018, in giant slalom atKranjska Gora,Slovenia. She was 42nd and missed the cut to qualify for a second run by less than a second. Three days later, she won a FIS giant slalom race inGaal,Austria, in which she scored 11.90 FIS points, ranking her inside the top 70 in the world at the time.[15]
On 28 January 2018, Robinson was selected to theNew Zealand team for thePyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, alongside alpine racersAdam Barwood andWillis Feasey. She became New Zealand's youngest-ever Winter Olympian at 16 years and 70 days when the games began.[16] At the Olympics, Robinson was coached by former alpine Olympians Tim Cafe andBen Griffin. She finished 35th (of 81) in thegiant slalom, the best result for a New Zealander in giant slalom at the Olympics in 38 years sinceFiona Johnson andAnna Archibald were 30th and 32nd in1980 atLake Placid, New York. She failed to finish the first run of theslalom event.[17]
On 27 August 2018, Robinson won the Audi QuattroWinter Games NZ FIS Australia New Zealand Cup (ANC) Giant slalom.[18] The following week on 5 September, she won the New Zealand Alpine National Championships for Super-G, as well as two Australia New Zealand Cup Super-G races, held atMt Hutt.[19]
At the World Cup giant slalom on 2 February 2019 atMaribor,Slovenia, Robinson was in 25th place after the first run, becoming the first New Zealander to qualify for the second run (the top 30 racers qualify for a second run), but failed to finish.[20] On 9 February, at aged 17, she won theEuropean Cup giant slalom inBerchtesgaden,Germany, becoming the first New Zealand athlete to do so sinceClaudia Riegler in 2001.[21]
At theWorld Championships atÅre inSweden in February, at age 17, she won the U21 category and was 17th in thegiant slalom, having the fastest time in the second run. This was the best result for a New Zealand alpine ski racer sinceClaudia Riegler andAnnelise Coberger.[22]
Less than a week later, at theJunior World Championships inVal di Fassa,Italy, Robinson won the giant slalom by more than a second, becoming the first New Zealander to win a gold medal in the 38-year history of theJunior World Championships.[23] She also finished in 15th-place finish in the super-G.[24]
At the World Cup giant slalom on 8 March inSpindleruv Mlyn,Czech Republic, Robinson was 16th in a 70-strong field earned fifteen World Cup points, the first in her career.[25] On 2 March, at the European Cup finals super-G inSella Nevea, Italy, she was the runner-up, 0.12 seconds back.[26]
Five days later, Robinson competed at the World Cup finals giant slalom held in GrandvaliraSoldeu,Andorra. She earned a berth in the event with her victory at theJunior World Championships the month prior.[27] At age 17, she made her first World Cup podium and finished second, 0.30 seconds behindMikaela Shiffrin.[28] It was the first World Cup podium for New Zealand in over sixteen years, since Riegler took third in slalom in December 2002.[29]
Robinson was named the Otago Junior Sportswoman of the Year at the 2019 Otago Sports Awards. Her coach, Tim Cafe, was also named the Otago Coach of the Year.[30]
On 24 June, it was announced that Robinson was splitting from Tim Cafe, who coached her for the previous eight years, citing a need for World Cup-level coaching. Chris Knight and Jeff Fergus formed the International Ski Racing Academy in 2018 and are now Robinson's full-time coaches. Knight and Fergus previously coached theUnited States women's team, which included four-time overall World Cup championLindsey Vonn.[31]
Robinson began the2020 season ranked a career-best tenth in the world in giant slalom.[32] She won both the giant slalom[33] and the slalom[34] at the 2019 New Zealand Alpine National Championships. On 28 August, Robinson won two Australia New Zealand Cup (ANC) super-G races held atCoronet Peak. These results mean she holds the yellow super-G ANC bib for the 2020 Northern Hemisphere race season.[35] On 30 August, Robinson finished second in an ANC giant slalom race and was awarded the Janey Blair Memorial Trophy for being the fastest finishing New Zealand female.[36] On 28 September, Robinson won the New Zealand Alpine ski racer athlete of the year award at Snow Sports New Zealand awards.[37]
On 26 October 2019, Robinson gained her first World Cup win on the Rettenbach glacier inSölden, Austria, 0.06 seconds ahead of runner-up Shiffrin. This was the first World Cup victory in any discipline for a New Zealander in over 22 years, sinceClaudia Riegler in February 1997,[38] and the first-ever in women's giant slalom. She also became the youngest woman from any nation to win at Sölden.[39] It was later revealed that she won while suffering from bone bruising to the knee following a training crash. On 7 November, Robinson announced that this injury would prevent her from starting the next GS race inKillington,Vermont;[40] she recovered faster than expected,[41] started the event but crashed in the opening run.[42]
Robinson got her second World Cup victory on 15 February 2020, besting runner-upPetra Vlhová by 0.34 seconds in a giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.[43] She became the first teenager in 32 years to win multiple giant slaloms in a single World Cup season, last done byMateja Svet in 1988.[44] On 18 February, Robinson became the joint world number one ranked skier in women's giant slalom, alongsideFederica Brignone, Shiffrin, and Vlhova. She is the first New Zealander to achieve this feat in any discipline.[45] On 8 March, Robinson was fourth in super-G at theJunior World Championships atNarvik,Norway.[46]
Robinson won theSky Sport Emerging Talent Award at the 2019Halberg Awards.[47] For the second year in a row Robinson was named the Mercy Hospital Junior Sports Woman of the Year at the 2020 ASB Otago Sports Awards ahead of snowboarderZoi Sadowski-Synnott.[48]
| Season | ||||||||
| Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| 2019 | 17 | 62 | — | 19 | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | 19 | — | 5 | — | — | 34 | 44 |
| 2021 | 19 | 19 | — | 8 | 31 | — | — | 19 |
| 2022 | 20 | 44 | — | 33 | 20 | — | — | |
| 2023 | 21 | 31 | — | 12 | 25 | 31 | — | |
| 2024 | 22 | 12 | — | 4 | 17 | 35 | ||
| 2025 | 23 | 7 | — | 2 | 17 | 41 |
| Season | ||||
| Date | Location | Discipline | Place | |
| 2019 | 17 March 2019 |  Soldeu, Andorra | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| 2020 | 26 October 2019 |  Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom | 1st |
| 15 February 2020 |  Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | Giant slalom | 1st | |
| 2021 | 7 March 2021 |  Jasná, Slovakia | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| 21 March 2021 |  Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Giant slalom | 1st | |
| 2024 | 25 November 2023 |  Killington, USA | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| 20 January 2024 | Jasná, Slovakia | Giant slalom | 3rd | |
| 30 January 2024 |  Kronplatz, Italy | Giant slalom | 2nd | |
| 10 February 2024 | Soldeu, Andorra | Giant slalom | 2nd | |
| 17 March 2024 | Saalbach, Austria | Giant slalom | 2nd | |
| 2025 | 26 October 2024 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| 28 December 2024 | Semmering, Austria | Giant slalom | 3rd | |
| 4 January 2025 | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | Giant slalom | 3rd | |
| 21 January 2025 | Kronplatz, Italy | Giant slalom | 1st | |
| 21 February 2025 | Sestriere, Italy | Giant slalom | 2nd | |
| 22 February 2025 | Giant slalom | 3rd | ||
| 8 March 2025 |  Åre, Sweden | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| Year | |||||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Combined | Parallel | Team event | |
| 2019 | 17 | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2023 | 21 | — | 15 | 7 | — | DNS SL | — | — | |
| 2025 | 23 | — | 2 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team event | |
| 2018 | 16 | DNF1 | 35 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | — | 23 | DNF | — | — | — |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by | Halberg Awards – Emerging Talent Award 2019 | Succeeded by |
