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Weight
  
63 kg

Teams
  
3 – (1988, 1992, 1994)

Name
  
Kerrin Lee-Gartner

Spouse
  
Max Gartner


Teams
  
3 – (1989, 1991, 1993)

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Retired
  
March 1994

Seasons
  
9 – (1985, 1987–94)

Height
  
1.71 m

Disciplines
  
Kerrin Lee-Gartner BBC Sport Vancouver 2010 Kerrin LeeGartner meets gold


Born
  
September 21, 1966 (age 58) Trail, British Columbia, Canada (
1966-09-21
)

World Cup debut
  
March 10, 1985 (age 18)(first top 15 finish)

Olympic medals
  
Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics - Women's Downhill

Women s skiing kerrin lee gartner


Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.

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Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions. She attained her first World Cup podium early in December 1990, then had five more top-six finishes early in the 1992 season entering the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.

On the Roc de Fer course at Méribel, Lee-Gartner won the gold medal in the Olympic downhill. Only 0.06 seconds behind was silver medalist Hilary Lindh of the U.S., for a North American 1–2 finish. Through 2014, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian. She finished sixth in the Olympic super-G and had two more podiums after the Olympics, both in North America, to finish up the 1992 season.

Kerrin Lee-Gartner ARCHIVED Image Display Canadian Olympians Library

Lee-Gartner's next season in 1993 was her best on the World Cup circuit, with two podiums and twelve top tens. She finished third in the downhill standings and ninth overall. At the World Championships in Japan, she was fourth in the super-G and ninth in the downhill.

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Leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friend Ulrike Maier after a crash in a downhill race in late January. At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in the super-G and 19th in the downhill, and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the 1994 World Cup season.

Lee-Gartner is currently a television broadcaster with CBC Sports in Canada. She also assisted the BBC with coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Race podiums

  • 6 podiums – (4 DH, 2 SG)
  • Video

  • CBC interview – following her Olympic gold medal run, February 1992
  • References

    Kerrin Lee-Gartner Wikipedia


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