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All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
Elena Fanchini (30 April 1985 – 8 February 2023) was an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Val Camonica , she focused on the speed events of downhill and super-G . Her younger sisters Nadia and Sabrina also raced on the Italian team.
List of skiing deaths; 0–9. 2006 Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol Deaths; A. Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz; ... Ross Milne (alpine skier) Sara Mustonen (skier) N ...
Officials in Wyoming confirmed the death of a 36-year-old skier following an avalanche at a mountain pass over the weekend. The avalanche occurred on Saturday at Togwotee Pass in Teton County ...
U.S. professional freestyle skier Kyle Smaine was one of two men killed in an avalanche on Sunday while skiing in Japan. He was 31 years old. Police confirmed to Reuters that the two men who died ...
William Dean Johnson (March 30, 1960 – January 21, 2016) was an American World Cup alpine ski racer.By winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Johnson became the first American male to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing and the first racer not from an Alpine country to win an Olympic downhill race.
Michael G. May (born 1953) is an American business executive, skier and enthusiast of other sports who was blinded by a chemical explosion at the age of three, but regained partial vision in 2000, at the age of 46, after cornea transplants and a pioneering stem cell procedure by San Francisco ophthalmologist Daniel Goodman.
Saubert was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1976, [10] and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1983. [11] She was chosen to be one of the torchbearers for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. [6] Saubert was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, and died of the disease at age 65 in Bigfork, Montana where she lived, on ...