Kiki Cutter
Christina " Kiki " Cutter ( born July 24, 1949 in Bend, Oregon) is a former American alpine skier. Cutter 1968 was the first alpine skier from the United States, who won a World Cup race. With a total of five victories she was more than two decades, the most successful American driver.
Biography
Cutters international career began in 1967. Having won the age of 17, the U.S. Championships in the downhill, she was appointed to the U.S. Ski Team. Between 1968 and 1970 she took part in the World Cup. In these three years, she won five races, seven more times she reached the podium. The 1967/68 season she finished in the World Cup Ranking from ninth place in the 1968/69 season it was the overall World Cup and fourth in the slalom World Cup runner-up.
A success at the Olympic Games which she did not. In Grenoble in 1968 she was on the descent as the 17th best U.S. American and giant slalom, she was 21 in her strongest discipline, the slalom, she was disqualified.
After the 1969/70 season ended cutter her amateur career and joined the professional Women 's Pro tour. She then worked as Promoterin Rossignol for and as an advertising wearer for the ski resort of Beaver Creek.