Kathy Kreiner
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Kreiner-Phillips in 2010
with her 1976 Olympic gold medal |
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| Disciplines |
Giant Slalom, Slalom, Downhill, Combined |
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| Club | Timmins Ski Club |
| Born |
May 4, 1957 Timmins, Ontario, Canada |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| World Cup debut | January 18, 1972 (age 14) (first top ten) |
| Retired | March 1981 (age 23) |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 3 – (1972, 1976, 1980) |
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 5 – (1972, '74, '76, '78, '80) includes three Olympics |
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 10 – (1972–1981) |
| Wins | 1 – (1 GS) |
| Podiums | 7 – (1 DH, 6 GS) |
| Overall titles | 0 – (10th in 1974) |
| Discipline titles | 0 – (4th in GS, 1977) |
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Katharine "Kathy" Kreiner-Phillips (born May 4, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada. She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. First out of the gate on Friday the 13th, Kreiner prevented double gold medalist Rosi Mittermaier from sweeping the women's alpine events, as Mittermaier won the silver medal. It was Canada's only gold medal in Innsbruck.
Born in Timmins, Ontario, Kreiner was an alpine racing prodigy in Canada, the youngest of six children of Margaret (Peggy) and Harold O. Kreiner (1920–1999), a Timmins physician and her coach until she made the national team. He was the team doctor for the Canadian alpine ski team for the 1966 World Championships in Portillo, Chile, and the Canadian Olympic team for the winter games in 1968 in Grenoble, France.
Kreiner made the national 'B' team at age 13 for a year, and was promoted to the 'A' team in the summer of 1971. She had her first World Cup top ten result in mid-January 1972, a sixth place in a downhill at Grindelwald, Switzerland. Three weeks later, Kreiner placed 14th in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. She made her first World Cup podium in 1973 at Alyeska in Alaska in giant slalom, and gained her first and only World Cup victory at age 16 in 1974 at Pfronten, West Germany. Kreiner raced 10 seasons on the World Cup circuit and finished with 1 victory, 7 podiums, and 46 top tens. After her Olympic victory, she was named the Canadian Female Athlete of the Year in 1976.
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