Jennifer Heil
Jennifer Heil ( born April 11, 1983 in Spruce Grove, Alberta ) is a Canadian freestyle skier who counts especially in the moguls and dual moguls mogul disciplines of the most successful athletes ever. She is Olympic Champion, World Cup Champion and four -time World Champion.
Biography
With two years of healing was on skis for the first time. Her father, a lawyer who is Canadian and her sister taught the basics. Those nine year began with the Moguls sport. Age of 13, denied salvation in February 1997 its first international competitions in the Nor- Am Cup. There they reached early and high rankings came in January 1999 in Le Relais in second for the first time on the podium. After she had won in February of the same year in Fortress Mountain victory in Dual Moguls - which they Nor- Am Cup won in that discipline - she debuted at the beginning of the winter 1999/2000 in the freestyle skiing World Cup. There she first came but only to use one, they finished as 29th and penultimate so.
In the World Cup 2000/ 01 healing then made a breakthrough in the world's best. She placed several times in a row in the Top Ten and made in January 2001 for the first time to jump on the World Cup podium by placing it second from Mont Tremblant. In addition, they won, like last year, the Canadian championship titles in both the moguls and dual moguls in. So it was little surprise when it became apparent the newcomer as the best Canadian at the World Cup in 2001 as seventh in the moguls. After the World Cup was followed by another podium finish in Himos, where they finished third. Overall, they binned in the World Cup discipline on the fourth rank in the World Cup they inserted itself in eighth. Thanks to their great success in the very first season, she was named Rookie of the Year.
In 2001, Dominick Gauthier salvation trainer; this bond continues to this day. The 2001/02 season began with little success for salvation, but already in January 2002, came back in good shape and in Oberstdorf again reached as third parties the podium. As one of the youngest athletes in the entire Team Canada, she traveled to the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. There they showed the first freestyle skier ever, the 360 iron cross, in which she half turns, the ski tips is down and crosses and - before she completes the rotation - taking apart again. As Fourth of less than 29 participants, they missed an Olympic medal by a hundredth of a point only slightly. Immediately after the Olympics celebrated in Inawashiro the first World Cup victory, it was followed by yet another second place in dual moguls. In the overall rankings of the two disciplines she managed the fourth rank in Dual Moguls and the sixth in the moguls.
During the 2002/ 03 season started healing at any international competitions since she trained as two other Canadian athletes individually. The World Cup 2003/ 04 was very successful for them. Within the first five races she came four times in the top two, including two victories. Even then they still reached the podium five times and triumphed once more. With these good performances, she won for the first time the title in the moguls World Cup, which she also managed in the following two seasons. Even more successful than in the previous winter started healing in the 2004/05 season in which they won even five times. They participated as one of the favorites at the 2005 World Championships, where she indeed only in mogul was fifth, but secured the gold medal in dual moguls.
The winter of 2005 /06 has been most successful to salvation. In the seven Moguls World Cup before the Olympics Heil won twice and four times in second. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006, she was on the first day of competition defending champion Kari Traa no chance and won with 0.85 points ahead of the gold medal. For this purpose, said the Canadian, who had been falsely called at the awards ceremony as a U.S. citizen: "A dream come true for me. For that I have so long worked so hard. " After the Olympics, she won two more World Cups, also, she was again Canadian champion. Also in World Cup 2006/ 07 it achieved some successes, such as a winning streak of six World Cups in a row. In addition, she was again World Champion in dual moguls and won world silver in moguls. After healing had skipped the 2007/08 season for health reasons, she managed another victory in the World Cup 2008/ 09. At the 2009 World Championships, she won the moguls on the silver medal.
In the 2009/10 season dominated salvation turn the World Cup. With four wins, two second and two third places she decided the discipline rating clearly for itself. In the overall World Cup they finished third. Not quite her role as favorite, she was at the Olympic Winter Games 2010: The Mogul competition in Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, she had to the US-American Hannah Kearney admit defeat and won the silver medal. The battle with Kearney continued in the 2010/11 season. Healing had it mostly lose out in the World Cup six times and missed the victory scarce. In contrast, she succeeded in the 2011 World Championships in Deer Valley revenge when she won the gold medal in the moguls competition Kearney. A few days later, she was the third time dual moguls World Champion.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Salt Lake City 2002: 4 Moguls
- Turin 2006: 1 Moguls
- Vancouver 2010: 2 Moguls
World Championships
- Whistler 2001: 7 Moguls
- Ruka 2005: 1st Dual Moguls, Moguls 5
- Madonna di Campiglio, 2007: 1st Dual Moguls, Moguls 2
- Inawashiro 2009: 2 Moguls, Dual Moguls 10
- Deer Valley 2011: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 1
World Cup ratings
- Season 2000/ 01: 4 - Mogul World Cup
- Season 2001/ 02: 4 Dual Mogul World Cup, 6 Moguls World Cup
- Season 2003/ 04: 5 Overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- Season 2004/ 05: 4th overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- Season 2005/ 06: 3rd Overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- Season 2006/ 07: 1 World Cup, 1 World Cup Moguls, Dual Moguls first World Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 3rd Overall World Cup, 2nd Mogul World Cup
- Season 2009/ 10: 3 Overall World Cup, 1st Mogul World Cup
- 2010/11 season: 2nd Overall World Cup, 2nd Mogul World Cup
World Cup wins
Heil won so far 58 podiums including 25 victories: