Katharine Kreiner-Phillips ( born Katharine Kreiner-Phillips ; born May 4, 1957 , Timmins ) is a Canadian skier , specialist in slalom , giant slalom , downhill and combination . She played for the Canada alpine skiing team in 1971-1981, champion of the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck , world champion, winner and medalist of the World Cup, 12-time champion of the Canadian national championship. Also known as a sports psychologist .
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| Citizenship |  Canada | ||||||||
| Date of Birth | May 4, 1957 (aged 62) | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Timmins , Canada | ||||||||
| Growth | 173 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination | ||||||||
| Club | Timmins ski club | ||||||||
| In the national team | 1971-1981 | ||||||||
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| Last updated: February 17, 2018 | |||||||||
Biography
Katie Krainer was born on May 4, 1957 in Timmins , Ontario , Canada . As the youngest child of six children, she started skiing in early childhood - she was trained under the guidance of her father Harold Krainer, who at that time was a full-time doctor of the Canadian national team, in particular, he was with the team at the World Cup in Portillo and at the Olympics in Grenoble [1] .
At the age of thirteen, Katie had already joined the Canadian alpine skiing team, and at fourteen she entered the main team, made her World Cup debut and, thanks to a series of successful appearances, was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo - she took 14th place in slalom and 33rd place in the giant slalom.
In January 1974, she won the first and only victory in the World Cup, winning a gold medal in giant slalom at the stage in the German Pfronten. I visited the world championship in St. Moritz , where she became seventh in downhill and fifteenth in slalom.
She achieved the greatest success in her sports career in 1976, when she performed at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck - she was only nineteenth in downhill skiing, did not finish in the slalom, but she was the first to perform in the giant slalom program and won Olympic gold medal (it was also awarded the title of world champion, as world championship was also played at these Games). At that time, she was only 18 years old, and thus she became the youngest skier in history to win the Olympic Games. In addition, she became the only representative of Canada at the Games in Innsbruck to win gold. For this outstanding achievement, as the best athlete in Canada, she won the Bobby Rosenfeld Prize and was immediately inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame [2] [3] [4] .
After a triumphant performance at the Innsbruck Olympics, Krainer remained in the main team of Canada’s main ski team and continued to take part in major international competitions. So, in 1978, she performed at the world championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where she showed the fourth result in combination and the twelfth in downhill. Invariably among the ten strongest at the stages of the World Cup, adding a few more silver and bronze medals to the track record.
Being among the leaders of the Canadian national team, I successfully passed the selection for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid - this time I could not get one of the winners, took fifteenth place in slalom, ninth place in giant slalom, became fifth in downhill and fourth in combination.
Subsequently, she remained an active professional athlete until 1981. Over the course of her sports career, she climbed the podium of the World Cup a total of seven times, 46 times entered the top ten (the highest result in the overall standings is tenth). He is, among other things, a 12-time alpine skiing champion of Canada.
She received a bachelor of science degree in physical education from the University of Utah and a master's degree in sports psychology from the University of Ottawa . After completing her sports career, she worked in her specialty - she was engaged in the psychological training of young athletes. In collaboration with another sports psychologist, Terry Orlik wrote the book Winning After Winning: The Psychology of Ongoing Excellence. Married to Canadian freestyle skier Dave Phillips.
Her older sister Laurie Krainer also had some success in skiing, participated in two Olympic games [5]
Notes
- ↑ Harold O. Kreiner (1920-1999) (inaccessible link) . La Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie. Date of treatment January 31, 2014. Archived February 2, 2014.
- ↑ Sufrin, Mel . Gold at last (February 13, 1976), p. 1.
- ↑ 1976 (January 3, 1977), p. 11.
- ↑ Kreiner named top Canadian athlete (December 21, 1976), p. 16.
- ↑ Canadian fourth in slalom (February 8, 1972), p. 27.
Links
- Katie Krainer - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Katie Krainer - statistics on the FIS website