Anne Heggtveit
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Heggtveit with her Olympic gold medal
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| Club | Ottawa Ski Club | ||||||||||||||||||
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January 11, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 2 – (1956, 1960) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 4 – (1954, 1956, 1958, 1960) includes two Olympics |
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| Medals | 2 (2 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Anne Heggtveit, CM (born January 11, 1939) is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was an Olympic gold medalist and double world champion in 1960.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Heggtveit was raised in New Edinburgh, a northeast suburb. She was encouraged into alpine skiing by her father, Halvor Heggtveit, a Canadian cross-country champion who qualified for Winter Olympics in 1932, but did not compete. His parents had emigrated from Norway to North Dakota. She learned to ski at Camp Fortune ski area in the nearby Gatineau Hills of Quebec, northwest of Ottawa, and was a student at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa. Heggtveit was a ski racing prodigy, invited at age seven to serve as a forerunner to a downhill race at Lake Placid in 1946.
At the age of 15 in 1954, Heggtveit first gained international attention when she became the youngest winner ever of the Holmenkollen giant slalom event in Norway. She also won the slalom and giant slalom at the United States national junior championships, and finished ninth in the downhill and seventh in the slalom at the World Championships in March at Åre, Sweden. After leading the top half of the giant slalom, she fell twice near the finish was well back in 31st, which dropped her final placing in the combined to 14th.
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