Karen Budge

Karen Budge Eaton ( born November 14, 1949 in Jackson, Wyoming) is a former American alpine skier.

Biography

Budgeting is from the Jackson Hole, a valley in the Rocky Mountains. With the skiing began under the guidance of their parents in the ski resort of Snow King. During her last two years of high school, she came 1967 on the U.S. Ski Team.

In the first year it was U.S. Champion in the combination and thus qualified for the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in 1968. However, a training accident nullified their Olympic hopes. When wax tests they collided in fog with another skier and dislocated his shoulder from.

Despite fierce competition in the own team - 1969 seven members of the U.S. team managed a place on the podium - to Budge subsequently developed one of the strongest and most consistent U.S. riders. Between January 1968 and March 1972, she drove 30 times in the top ten. Your best finishes, two second places, they reached in the giant slalom in Waterville Valley ( March 1969 ) and Heavenly Valley ( February 1971 ). In 1972, she finished her career with a 14th place in the Olympic downhill from Sapporo.

After the end of the games, she married the former ski racer Gordi Eaton. Both they moved first to Middlebury (Vermont ), where they took over the training of the Middlebury College ski team until 1977. Today, the couple lives in Lincoln (New Hampshire), where it operates a fish and steak house.