Chip Knight

Howard "Chip" Knight ( born January 11, 1975 in Stamford, Connecticut ) is a former American alpine skier. The slalom specialist participated in three Olympic Games and world championships, reached three top-10 results in the World Cup, won in the 2001/2002 season, the overall ranking of the Nor -Am Cup and in 1993 Junior World Champion and 1996 U.S. Champion in slalom.

Career

Chip Knight grew up in New Canaan on in the State of Connecticut and started on five hours away by car Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont, with regular ski training at the age of seven years. In order to force his athletic training on, he attended Burke Mountain Academy in Burke, Vermont. From 1995 he was a student at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

After successes in the Junior World Championships ( slalom victory in 1993, second place 1994) Knight has been included in the team of the U.S. Ski Association. With good performances in the north -Am Cup ( slalom overall victory in the season 1995 /1996) he was awarded a place at the World Championship in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada, however, where it failed in the first slalom run. In March 1996, he was U.S. champion in slalom. In the World Cup Knight won for the first time at the beginning of the 1996/1997 season points, as he finished 24th place in the slalom in Breckenridge. In January 1997, he reached next two 25th places in Chamonix and Kitzbühel 14th place in the slalom in Wengen, who remained his best World Cup result for a long time. At the World Championships in Sestriere in 1997, he left as the previous year in the first slalom run. Although Knight remained in the season 1997/98 with no World Cup points, he also came at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano used, but where he also eliminated in the first round.

After knee surgery in the spring of 1998 came Knight in the next three years primarily in Nor- Am Cup used where he achieved some victories and podiums. In his few missions in World Cup this time, he had no points. Even when he returned frequently started in the World Cup from the season 2000/2001, he was initially able to qualify in any race for the second pass. In January 2002, he won with two 17th places in the slalom in Adelboden and Wengen, which was soon followed by a 21st place in Schladming, for the first time in five years World Cup points. After these good results Knight was also used for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City used where it reached as Best of U.S. slalom team eleventh place. In the Nor- Am Cup, he celebrated in the 2001/2002 season with the overall win as well as winning the slalom and giant slalom ratings successes.

The 2002/2003 season was the most successful to Knights in the World Cup. On November 24, 2002, he took seventh place in the slalom at Park City for the first time in the top 10 and three weeks later he reached the sixth place in the knockout slalom in Sestriere best World Cup result of his career. In the rest of the season he still drove in four more World Cup slaloms into the top 20, as well as in the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, where he finished eleventh. In the next Winter Knight achieved four top -20 results in World Cup slalom, with a tenth place in Madonna di Campiglio was his best result of the season. In the winter of 2004/2005 he qualified only twice for a second pass, which is why he did not came into use at the 2005 World Championships in contrast to previous years. After he had remained in the first World Cup race of the next season without result, he was initially able to score with rank 18 in Adelboden for the first and only time in a World Cup giant slalom in January 2006. He then scored with 17 seats in Adelboden, 20 and 19 in Kitzbuhel, Schladming three top -20 results in the slalom, with which he met the standard of the U.S. Association for a nomination for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In his third and final Olympics Knight came in 18th place in the slalom. After the 2005/2006 season, he finished his career at the age of 31 years.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Salt Lake City 2002: 11 Slalom
  • Turin 2006: 18 Slalom

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003 11 Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Monte Campione 1993: 1 Slalom, Giant Slalom 19
  • Lake Placid 1994: 2nd Slalom, Giant Slalom 21

World Cup

  • 3 places in the top ten

Nor- Am Cup

  • Overall victory in the 2001/2002 season
  • Victory in the slalom rating in the seasons 1995/1996, 2001/2002 and 2004/2005
  • Victory in the giant slalom rating in the 2001/2002 season

U.S. Championships

  • American champion in slalom in 1996
Slalom skiing Medal World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Stamford (Connecticut) New Canaan (Connecticut) Stowe (Vermont) Burke (Vermont) Sierra Nevada (Spain) 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup Breckenridge (Colorado) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 Nagano, Nagano Park City (Utah) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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