Julia Mancuso

Julia Mancuso ( born March 9, 1984 in Reno, Nevada) is an American alpine skier. With one gold, two silver and one bronze medal she won more Olympic medals than any other American alpine ski racer.

Biography

Mancuso won the 1999 Super -G at the Whistler Cup. In November of the same year she took at the age of 15 years for the first time participated in a World Cup race. Your first place in the top ten of the race she made in March 2002 in the downhill of Altenmarkt.

Far more successful she was at the Junior World Championships. In 2002 she was three -time World Champion in downhill, giant slalom and Alpine combined in Tarvisio Italy. Two more world titles followed in 2003 in Puy -Saint -Vincent in the Super- G and 2004 in Maribor in the combination.

The World Cup season 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04, however, went through growing. In no race Mancuso was able to ride in the front seats. Only in the 2004/05 season she succeeded with seven finishes in the top ten of the crack at the top.

In January 2005 she won at the World Ski Championships in Italy Santa Caterina behind the Swede Anja Parson and the Italian Lucia Recchia the bronze medal in the Super -G. A week later, she won a bronze medal in the giant slalom, behind Anja Parson and the Finn Tanja Poutiainen.

The greatest success of her career, she celebrated at the Olympic Winter Games 2006: In Sestriere it was somewhat surprising Olympic gold medalist in the giant slalom, in Tanja Poutiainen and Swede Anna Ottosson. The race was dominated by dense fog and heavy snow.

After she had to undergo hip replacement surgery in the summer, they celebrated in December 2006 in the downhill in Val d'Isere with her first World Cup victory a successful comeback. During the season 2006/ 07 was followed by three more wins. In the 2007 World Ski Championships in Åre, she won silver in the super combined.

The following two winters went rather disappointing for Mancuso. Chronic back pain disability Mancuso in training, so that they could scarcely build on their previous performance as a result. An improvement hinted at in the 2009/10 season, as they repeatedly drove back into the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games 2010, it achieved the first podium for almost two years and won in the downhill surprisingly the silver medal behind Lindsey Vonn. Just a day later, she was able to repeat this success in the super combined, as they also took second place behind Maria Riesch. In the giant slalom she placed eighth and the Super-G in ninth place. In her first race after the Winter Olympics, the Super -G in Crans -Montana, she celebrated with a third place in the World Cup again a podium finish.

Your improving form took Mancuso in the season 2010/11: Several times she was also placed in the top ten, was at the Super G in Lake Louise and third in the downhill in Cortina d' Ampezzo second. The World Ski Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen she won the Super G silver medal, which she had to admit defeat to 0.05 seconds, only the Austrian Elisabeth Goergl. At the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, she won the downhill; it was this her first World Cup victory after more than four years. Since a few days before it had occurred a massive earthquake in Japan, Mancuso called as the initiator together with other World Cup runners and runners a " skiers helping japan" initiative in and donated half of their prize money for this action. Your ski and binding equipment took the call Mancuso spontaneously as an opportunity to double the donation of departure champion, so that the full prize money could flow to the charity. It also has a home page " www.skiershelpingjapan.com " was set up on the hobby skier and World Cup Fans can contribute.

Further victories followed in the season 2011/ 12: in January in the Super G in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, the track, where they had won the year before at the World Championships silver medal; and in February in the City Event Moscow, where they prevailed in the final against the Austrian Michaela Kirchgasser. In the super - G World Cup they reached the second place behind Lindsey Vonn. After two podium finishes at the beginning of the 2012/13 season they won the bronze medal in the Super- G at the 2013 World Cup in Schladming.

The 2013/2014 season began by growing for Mancuso. However, after the turn of the year rose to its shape, so that she could enter in time for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi their first podium finish. She won the bronze medal in the super combined and became the most successful U.S. Olympian in Alpine skiing.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

Salt Lake City 2002: 13 combination
Turin 2006: 1st Giant Slalom, Downhill 7, 9 combination, 11 Super -G
Vancouver 2010: 2nd exit, 2nd Super Combined, Giant Slalom 8, 9 Super -G
Sochi 2014: 3rd Super Combined Downhill 8, 8 Super -G

World Championships

St. Moritz 2003: 7 combination, 21 Super -G
Santa Caterina 2005: 3 Super -G, 3rd giant slalom, slalom 8, 9 combination
Åre 2007: 2nd Super Combined, Giant Slalom 5th, 6th Super -G, downhill 10
Val d'Isere 2009: 18 Giant Slalom
Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 2 Super -G, Downhill 6, 7, Super Combined, Giant Slalom 16
Schladming 2013: 3 Super -G, downhill 5th, 8th Super Combined, Giant Slalom 22

Junior World Championships

Quebec 2000: 4 Super -G, downhill 11
Verbier 2001: 3 combination, 7 slalom, downhill 8, 11, Super -G, Giant Slalom 23
Tarvisio 2002: 1st exit, 1 giant slalom, 1 combination, 5 Super G, Slalom 7
Briançonnais 2003: 1 Super -G, 3rd exit, 5 giant slalom, 14 combination, 43 Slalom
Maribor 2004: 1 combination, third Super -G, Giant Slalom 4th, 5th downhill, slalom 6

World Cup ratings

3rd place in the overall World Cup: 2007
2nd place in the downhill World Cup: 2007
2nd place in the Super - G World Cup: 2012, 2013
2nd place in the Combined World Cup: 2007
3rd place in the downhill World Cup: 2011
3rd place in the Super - G World Cup: 2011

World Cup wins

7 World Cup victories (3x departure, 2x Super -G, Super Combined 1x, 1x City Event )
35 podiums (11x departure, 15x Super -G, Giant Slalom 5x, 3x Super Combined, 1x City Event )

Nor- Am Cup

1999/2000 season: 2nd overall, 1st Giant Slalom rating
2001/2002 season: 5 Ranking, 1st slalom standings, fifth giant slalom rating
14 podiums, 5 wins

Other successes

Personal

Mancuso was romantically involved from 2010 to 2013 with the Norwegian alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal.

Her father, Ciro Mancuso was arrested in 1989 after a 140 million dollar marijuana smuggling when Julia was five years old.

Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Reno (Nevada) 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup Santa Caterina di Valfurva 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup Crans-Montana 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 France Ossi Reichert Marielle Goitschel Nancy Greene Kathy Kreiner Debbie Armstrong Vreni Schneider Pernilla Wiberg Deborah Compagnoni Viktoria Rebensburg Tina Maze

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