Cornelia "Connie" Kissling ( German: Cornelia "Conny" Kissling ; born July 18, 1961 ) is a Swiss freestyle player , who achieved the greatest success in the 1980s. Ten-time winner of the World Cup, winner of 106 cup stages, world champion.
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| Full name | Cornelia Kiessling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | July 18, 1961 (58 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Olten , Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 170 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | completed career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games | 13 ( 1992 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship |  ( 1986 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
In the Freestyle World Cup, Connie Kissling began performing in the early 1980s. At the end of the 1981/82 season, she became second overall, losing to Canadian Marie-Claude Asselin , and starting from the next season until the end of her career in 1992, she invariably won the general classification by doing it 10 times in a row.
Kissling performed most successfully in a combination (the union of all three freestyle types existing on that day - mogul , acrobati and ski ballet). In this discipline, she scored 66 of her 106 victories, and got to the podium 88 times. In total, in the top three, the Swiss rose 204 times (106 wins, 56 second and 42 third places).
At the first ever freestyle world championship in Tine in 1986, Kissling won a combination. Three years later, at the championship in West Germany, she won two silver medals, losing the crown combination to American Melanie Palenik .
In 1988, freestyle was included in the Olympic program as a demonstration . During these competitions, Connie Kissling twice took third places in the mogul and ski ballet.
At the Olympics in Albertville , the mogul was included in the main Olympic program, acrobatics and ski ballet remained as demonstration species. In the mogul, Kiessling showed the 13th result in qualifying and did not make it to the top eight freestylers who reached the final round. But in the demonstration ski ballet the Swiss showed the best performance.
Completed sports victory after the end of the 1991/92 Olympic season. She ended her career with a victory in the combination at the stage in the Austrian Altenmarkt .
June 1, 2002 she married the former Swiss skier Urs Lehmann .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Indicative view
- ↑ 66 wins in combination, 34 in ski ballet and 3 wins in moguls and acrobatics
Links
- Connie Kissling - statistics on the FIS website (English)
- Connie Kiessling - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)