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| Born | (1966-09-21)September 21, 1966 (age 59) Trail, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Downhill,Super-G,giant slalom,Combined | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Red Mountain Racers | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | March 10, 1985 (age 18) (first top 15 finish) | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | March 1994 (age 27) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (1988,1992,1994) | ||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (1989,1991,1993) | ||||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 9 – (1985,1987–94) | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 6 – (4DH, 2SG) | ||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 –(9th in1993) | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 –(3rd inDH,1993) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a formerWorld Cupalpine ski racer andOlympic gold medallist from Canada.
Born inTrail, British Columbia, she grew up inRossland and raced as a youngster atRed Mountain. Lee-Gartner started skiing for theCanadian 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 the1992 season entering theWinter Olympics inAlbertville, France.
On theRoc de Fer course atMéribel, Lee-Gartner won the gold medal in the Olympicdownhill. Only 0.06 seconds behind was silver medallistHilary Lindh of theU.S., for a North American 1–2 finish.[1] Through2018, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian.[2] She finished sixth in the Olympicsuper-G and had two more podiums after the Olympics, both in North America, to finish up the 1992 season.
Lee-Gartner's next season in1993 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 theWorld Championships in Japan, she was fourth in the super-G and ninth in the downhill.
Leading up to the1994 Winter Olympics, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friendUlrike Maier after a crash in a downhill race in late January.[3][4] At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in thesuper-G and 19th in thedownhill, and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the1994 World Cup season.
Lee-Gartner is currently a television broadcaster withCBC Sports in Canada. She also assisted theBBC with coverage of the2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.[5]
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 18 | 82 | – | 43 | — | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | ||||||
| 1987 | 20 | 77 | – | – | – | 32 | — |
| 1988 | 21 | 48 | – | – | 26 | 10 | 16 |
| 1989 | 22 | 51 | – | – | – | 24 | 22 |
| 1990 | 23 | 49 | – | – | – | 14 | — |
| 1991 | 24 | 16 | – | – | 16 | 9 | — |
| 1992 | 25 | 14 | – | 29 | 7 | 4 | — |
| 1993 | 26 | 9 | – | 26 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 1994 | 27 | 34 | – | 34 | 11 | 28 | — |
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Dec 28, 1990 | Altenmarkt, Austria | Downhill | 3rd |
| 1992 | Mar 7, 1992 | Vail,CO, USA | Downhill | 2nd |
| Mar 15, 1992 | Panorama, British Columbia, Canada | Super-G | 2nd | |
| 1993 | Dec 12, 1992 | Vail, CO, USA | Downhill | 3rd |
| Feb 26, 1993 | Veysonnaz, Switzerland | Downhill | 2nd | |
| 1994 | Jan 15, 1994 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Super-G | 3rd |
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 22 | — | DNF | 20 | 7 | 9 |
| 1991 | 24 | — | 24 | 16 | 7 | DNF SL |
| 1993 | 26 | — | 23 | 4 | 9 | 17 |
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 21 | — | 17 | 23 | 15 | 8 |
| 1992 | 25 | — | — | 6 | 1 | DQ SL1 |
| 1994 | 27 | — | — | 8 | 19 | — |
During May 2018, Lee-Gartner was part of a group of four female athletes, includingCassie Campbell,Jen Kish andFran 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]
