Sara Renner
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| Full name | Sara Renner | |||||||||||||||
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10 April 1976 Golden, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Ski club | Canmore Nordic Ski Club | |||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 1996-2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Individual wins | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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Sara Renner (born April 10, 1976) is a Canadian cross-country skier who competed from 1994 to 2010. With Beckie Scott, she won the silver medal in the team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of 8th in the 10 km classical event in those same games. She was born in Golden, British Columbia.
Norwegian coach Bjørnar Håkensmoen gave Sara Renner a ski pole after hers was broken when a competitor stepped on it during the cross-country team sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Norway's athlete ended up fourth, implying that this selfless act of sportsmanship may well have cost the Norwegian team a medal. Renner gave Håkensmoen a bottle of wine as a thank you, while other Canadians responded with phone calls and letters to the Norwegian Embassy and sent 7,400 cans of maple syrup to Håkensmoen. The incident was immortalized in a 2010 Winter Olympics television commercial.
Renner took part in four events: Ladies' Team Sprint Free, placing 7th out of 10 teams, with 18:51.8 Ladies' Individual Sprint Classic, placed 34th of 54 in the qualification (Not Qualified, 30 best results advancing) Ladies' 15 km Pursuit (7.5Classic+7.5Free), placing 10th of 62 finishers, with 41:37.9, her best result. Ladies' 30 km, Mass Start, Classic placing 16th of 50 starters, with 1:34:04.2
She announced her retirement in Vancouver following her finish in the Ladies' 30 km, Mass Start event. She said: "I just left everything out there today," Renner said after carrying her three-year-old daughter, Aria, in her arms through a series of TV interviews. "It was a beautiful race in the pouring rain — quite the way to go out. To hear everyone cheering for me, it was absolutely inspiring."
Renner grew up at remote Mount Assiniboine Lodge, the oldest backcountry ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies, located southwest of Banff and Canmore, Alberta, just across the British Columbia provincial border. Her parents ran the high-altitide lodge for three decades, and she credits her youth there for her skiing success.
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