Jean Saubert

Jean Marlene Saubert ( born May 1, 1942 in Roseburg, Oregon, † May 14, 2007 in Bigfork, Montana) was an American alpine skier.

Life

Saubert was originally from Oregon. Skiing she learned in the ski resort of McCall (Idaho ). It was the mid-1960s briefly the dominant driver of the U.S. Ski Association. In 1963 she became U.S. champion in the downhill and giant slalom. The following year, she won all four titles at the national championships.

Internationally, it first drew attention to herself as she drove in the giant slalom to sixth place at the World Ski Championships 1962 in Chamonix. In the following years she reached numerous victories in international races. Among other things, these were 1963 downhill, slalom and combination of Harriman Cup at Sun Valley and the giant slalom of the Silver Belt in Sugar Bowl, and in winter 1963/64, giant slalom and combined with the criterion of the first snow in Val d'Isere, the slalom of the Staufen Cup in Oberstaufen, the giant slalom race in SDS Grindelwald and the slalom silver jug race in Bad Gastein. Your greatest success Saubert in February 1964 at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck. There they gave themselves a tough competition with the two French sisters Marielle and Christine Goitschel. Ultimately Saubert was beaten the two Frenchwomen in the slalom and took the bronze medal. In the giant slalom, she took the same time as Christine Goitschel Rank 2 Shortly after the Olympics she won the slalom of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In winter 1965, she won for the second time after 1963 the Silver Belt. In 1966 she was at the World Championships in Portillo Chile's fourth in the slalom.

After the World Cup itself Saubert retired from active competitive sports. By 1964 she had graduated from Oregon State University and studied since then at the private Brigham Young University. Then Saubert worked for more than three decades as an elementary school teacher and moonlighting as a ski instructor.

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