Lindsey Van
Lindsey Van ( born November 27, 1984 in Detroit ) is an American ski jumper.
Career
At the age of seven years, Lindsey Van began to alpine skiing. Ski jumping she tried at the Opening of the Utah Winter Sports Park from 1993. In the following years, the American was able to achieve some good results in some FIS competitions. At the FIS Ladies Grand Prix 2003, she was in the overall standings behind Anette Sagen third parties and Eva Ganster. Over the next three years, they could win the second place in the overall standings, respectively. Van was also placed in the first four sweeps of the Ladies Continental Cup in the top five, of which 2004/ 05 and 2005/ 06 as a second behind Anette Sagen. Until then your biggest success was winning the FIS Ladies Grand Prix 2007, next she won a total of eight jumping Continental Cup series and placed at a total of 44 jumping among the top 3 also won the bronze medal at the as demonstration discharged jumping at the Junior world Championship 2004 in Stryn, Norway. In the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec 2009 she won the title as the first World Champion in the history of women's ski jumping.
Your personal best of 171 meters, they jumped at the 2004 Vikersundbakken.
Lindsay Van demanded the inclusion of women's ski jumping in 2009 in the Olympic program. Together with other jumpers, she moved it to the competent court in Canada, where the suit was abwiesen. With the introduction of the World Cup in the women's ski jumping in the Winter 2011 Van came closer to their goal and could in 2014 as one of three U.S. jumpers participated in the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping. At the competition on the normal hill it ranked 15th in training for World Cup competition in the Romanian Rasnov her tore his cruciate ligament, which is why she had to finish the season in advance ..