Andrea Mead-Lawrence

Andrea Mead - Lawrence ( born April 19, 1932 in Rutland, Vermont, † March 30, 2009 in Mammoth Lakes, California ) was an American alpine skier. It was in the late 1940s and successfully in the 1950s in the disciplines of slalom and giant slalom.

Biography

Mead's family was in possession of Pico Mountain, one of the first ski areas in Vermont. As a 14 -year-old she was inducted into the national team; a year later she took part in the Winter Olympics in 1948 in part in St. Moritz, where she went in the slalom to eighth place. At the World Cup 1950 in Aspen, she was sixth in the same discipline. Mead won 1950 and 1953 the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley and won in 1951 and 1952 in the giant slalom race of SDS in Grindelwald, where they each second in slalom and combined was in the same years. From 1949 to 1955, she won a total of ten U.S. Championship titles in all disciplines.

The greatest successes of her career celebrated Mead at the Olympic Winter Games 1952: In Oslo she won both the slalom and giant slalom gold medal; it was thus the first American alpine skier, the Olympic champion was twice. Four years later, she missed in Cortina d' Ampezzo as fourth in the giant slalom another medal just barely. In 1958, she was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame.

1951 Mead married the skier David Lawrence and moved to Aspen with him in the sixties. There she was a member for several years, the city's Planning Commission. In 1967 she divorced and moved to Mammoth Lakes with her five children. In 1982, she was elected to the Council of Mono County and held this office for 16 years.

In 2003 she founded the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers, a conservation organization that is committed in the eastern part of the Sierra Nevada. Mead - Lawrence campaigned for the protection of Mono Lake. On 30 March 2009 she died after a long illness with cancer. In January 2013, received her honor a previously unnamed mountain with 3731 m height above Mammoth Lake on the border of Yosemite National Park, the name Mt Andrea Lawrence.

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Works

  • Andrea Mead Lawrence, Sara Burnaby: A Practice of Mountains. Seaview Books, New York 1980, ISBN 0-87223-593-9.
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