Jonna Mendes

Jonna Mendes ( born March 31, 1979 in Santa Cruz, California ) is a former American alpine skier. She specializes in the disciplines of downhill and Super -G. Mendes won the bronze medal in the Super- G at the 2003 World Cup, and reached the World Cup as the best results, two fifth places.

Career

After several victories in FIS races and podiums in the north -Am Cup and a fourth place in the Super G at the Junior World Championship 1997 came Jonna Mendes on 7 March 1997 in the Super- G of Mammoth Mountain for their first World Cup competition. The first World Cup points they won in December of the same year with a 26th place in the Super G in Lake Louise. Front World Cup rankings they have not yet reached during the next two years. Successful Mendes was at this time in the Nor- Am Cup, where they celebrated their first victory in December 19997, and at the Junior World Championships, where she in 1998 and 1999 respectively won the silver medal in the downhill. Good performances also showed Mendes in their first Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998 with rank 14 in the combination and 17th place in the downhill and in their first 1999 World Cup in Vail / Beaver Creek with tenth place in the combination. Such results could not show up to that point in the World Cup.

After Mendes was first run in December 1999 in a World Cup race in the fastest 15, you get in November / December 2000 places ten and six in the two slopes of Lake Louise her first top-10 results. Constant in the front ranks could not be kept within the next two years but. At the World Cup in 2001 they reached # 9 in the combination, rank 18 in the Super G and 20th place in the downhill. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, she was 11th in the downhill and 16th in super -G.

The 2002/2003 season was the most successful for the then 23- year-old. She reached for the only time during a whole winter relatively constant good results in the World Cup and drove in six races (four Super -G and downhill twice ) into the top ten, where she finished fifth in the downhill in Cortina d' Ampezzo her best result achieved. In the super - G World Cup, she was 13 and in the downhill World Cup 16 - each as the second- best U.S. American behind Kirsten Clark. The greatest success of her career was celebrating Mendes at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, when she won the bronze medal in the Super G behind the Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister and Kirsten Clark. She was also sixth in the downhill.

In December 2003, Mendes reached in the World Cup downhill in St. Moritz again a fifth. After that, their results deteriorated but visibly. In the winter of 2003/2004 they went in any other race into the top 20 in the World Cup season 2004/2005 she scored at least two 15th places in the Super -G in Cortina d' Ampezzo and in the departure of San Sicario. Again, better than the World Cup Mendes was back at the season's peak, the 2005 World Championships in Bormio. There she went to twelfth place in the downhill. This World Cup was their last major event, because in the season 2005/2006 Mendes could only score two more times in the World Cup, which was not enough for a nomination of the U.S. team for the 2006 Olympic Games. According to the 2005/2006 season Mendes gave up her known withdrawal from ski racing.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Nagano 1998: 14 combination, 17 downhill, super-G 32
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 11 Downhill, 16 Super -G

World Championships

  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 10 Combination 25 exit 26, the Super-G
  • St. Anton 2001: 9 combination, 18 Super -G, downhill 20
  • St. Moritz 2003: 3 Super -G, Downhill 6
  • Bormio 2005: 12 Departure

Junior World Championships

  • High -Ybrig 1996: 9 exit 24 Giant Slalom, Super -G 25
  • Schladming 1997: 4 Super -G, Giant Slalom 7
  • Megève 1998: 2nd exit, 8 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 13, 43 Slalom
  • Pra Loup 1999: 2nd exit 4 Super -G, Giant Slalom 12th, 35th slalom

World Cup

  • Two fifth places and a further eight finishes among the top ten

Nor- Am Cup

U.S. Championships

  • 4 American Championship titles ( 2001 and 2002 giant slalom, downhill 2004 and 2005)
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