Hannah Kearney
Hannah Angela Kearney ( born February 26, 1986 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American freestyle skier. She specializes in moguls and dual moguls ( moguls ) and heard in these disciplines to the world's most successful athletes. She was once Olympic champion, twice World Champion, three times winner of the championship of freestyle skiing World Cup and five times winner of the discipline standings.
Biography
Kearney learned to ski at the age of two years. In high school, she was both in football and in track and field at the national teams of the State of Vermont. As of December 2001, she participated in freestyle FIS races. In 2003, she won both the Moguls as well as the Dual Moguls Junior World Champion title. At the 2002 Winter Olympics they came as Vorfahrerin used.
Her debut in the World Cup had Kearney in Mont Tremblant, where it reached # 26 on January 11, 2003. Just four weeks later, she came in Steamboat Springs the first time in the top ten. The 2003/04 season began with a third place in Åre, which was followed by several more podium finishes. The first World Cup victory she succeeded on 22 February 2004 in Naeba, which she had a second follow two weeks later. So they had already established itself as 17 -year-old final at the world's best. In the World Cup season 2004/ 05 stood Kearney four more times on the podium, without being able to win. The only win of the season she succeeded at the World Championships 2005 in Ruka, where she won the gold medal in the moguls discipline.
In the World Cup season 2005/ 06 Kearney won a race and was further three times on the podium. However, the 2006 Winter Olympics ended in disappointment: Because of a dirty landing she reached the qualification round only the 22nd place and could not compete in the final. After two third places they had the World Cup 2006/07 season prematurely after she had torn a ligament in his left knee during training. Shortly after the beginning of the season 2007/ 08 she suffered a concussion and had to pause forcibly again.
Kearney succeeded in the 2008 /09 season an impressive comeback. She won the first World Cup race after her injury break and won in the sequence two more. With a total of six podium finishes, she decided against Jennifer Heil and Margarita Marbler the discipline rating for themselves in the World Cup she came in second place. At the 2009 World Championships in Inawashiro she was third in the discipline Dual Moguls. In the World Cup season 2009/10 Kearney decided four competitions and binned in the discipline standings to third place. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal at the moguls.
In the season 2010/11 Kearney seemed almost unbeatable. With nine wins and a second place she decided by a large margin in both the overall standings and the moguls discipline standings of the World Cup itself. At the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley, however, she had to admit defeat in the moguls competition just their toughest rival Jennifer Heil. In Dual Moguls competition, she won the bronze medal. Also dominated in the season 2011/12 Kearney competition almost at will. She scored eleven World Cup victories, including nine in a row. Your worst result of the season was a fifth place. Think she decided both the overall World Cup rankings as well as the World Cup Moguls rating for themselves.
In October 2012 Kearney crashed during training in Zermatt and broke his two ribs. For this reason, they missed the beginning of the season 2012/13. With a few weeks delay they took the World Cup season 2012/13 in attack and was able to celebrate six more wins. Shortly before the end of the season, she managed to overtake the previously leading Canadian Justine Dufour - Lapointe, after which she decided to discipline rating for the fourth time for themselves. At the World Cup 2013 in Voss, she won for the second time the Moguls Gold Medal And it came up the dual moguls bronze medal.
At the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi Kearney could not repeat their success of 2010 and won the third place bronze medal. Successful she was in the World Cup, where they had an exciting duel with Justine Dufour - Lapointe delivered: With a total of five wins and three additional podium finishes, it secured for the fourth consecutive year, the mogul - discipline standings and for the third time overall World Cup standings.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Turin 2006: 22 Moguls
- Vancouver 2010: 1 Moguls
- Sochi 2014: 3 Moguls
World Championships
- Ruka 2005: 1 Moguls
- Inawashiro 2009: 3 Dual Moguls, Moguls 14
- Deer Valley 2011: 2 Moguls, Dual Moguls 3
- Voss 2013: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 3
Junior World Championships
- Marble Mountain 2003: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 1
World Cup ratings
- Season 2003/ 04: 4 - Mogul World Cup
- Season 2004/ 05: 5 Moguls World Cup
- Season 2005/ 06: 5 Moguls World Cup
- Season 2006/ 07: 7 Dual Mogul World Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- Season 2009/ 10: 6 Overall World Cup, 3rd World Cup Moguls
- Season 2010/ 11: first overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- Season 2011/12: 1 World Cup, 1 World Cup Moguls
- Season 2012/13: 5 Overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- 2013/14 season: 1 World Cup, 1 World Cup Moguls
World Cup wins
Kearney won so far 63 podiums including 42 victories:
Other successes
- 3 U.S. Championship titles (2006 Moguls and Dual Moguls, Moguls 2010 )
- 1 victory in FIS races