Alisa Camplin
Alisa Camplin ( born November 10, 1974 in Melbourne) is an Australian freestyle ski jumper. You ever once world champion and Olympic champion.
Biography
Originally she was a gymnast and studied Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. Inspired by the achievements of three -time Olympic participant Kirstie Marshall, they also wanted to be a freestyler, even though she could not ski. To this end, she turned in 1994 to the "Olympic Winter Institute of Australia ." Your jumps she trained in a small lake in Wandin, a suburb of Melbourne. In the course of her career, she suffered numerous injuries, including a broken collarbone, a broken hand and nine concussions.
Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City they had in the freestyle skiing World Cup although they have some top - 10 finishes, but still no victory. Your compatriot Jacqui Cooper was considered a big favorite, but she suffered a week before the Olympic competition a knee injury. Quite surprisingly won the gold medal Camplin. She later testified that the completely surprising Olympic victory of the short-track runner Steven Bradbury had stimulated them. Four days after the victory, on 22 February 2002, the Australian Post gave her honor issuing a stamp to 45 cents. The success of Camplin and Bradbury broke in Australia from a winter sports boom.
That their success was no accident Camplin demonstrated at the 2003 Freestyle World Championships at Deer Valley by winning the world title. She also won 10 World Cup competitions (as of end of February 2006 ) and won in the seasons 2002/ 03 and 2003/04 World Cup discipline standings.
In October 2005, she suffered a serious knee injury. To accelerate the healing process, they resorted to an unusual method and was implanting the donated tendon of a deceased person. Only a mere eleven weeks after the operation, she started training again and qualified with a fourth place at the World Cup in Lake Placid for the Winter Olympics 2006. During the opening ceremony she was wearing the Australian flag into the stadium. In Olympic competition in Sauze d' Oulx, she won the bronze medal behind the Swiss Evelyne Leu and the Chinese Li Nina.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Salt Lake City 2002: 1st Aerials
- Turin 2006: 3 Aerials
World Championships
- Hasliberg 1999: 7 Aerials
- Whistler 2001: 11 Aerials
- Deer Valley 2003: 1st Aerials
World Cup ratings
- 1999/2000 season: 6 Aerials World Cup
- Season 2000/ 01: 9 Overall World Cup, 5th Aerials World Cup
- Season 2002/ 03: first aerials World Cup
- Season 2003/ 04: 4th overall World Cup, 1st Aerials World Cup
World Cup wins
Camplin won 19 podiums including 10 victories:
Other successes
- 2 wins at Continental Cup
- 1 victory in the European Cup