Peter Frenette
Peter Frenette ( born February 24, 1992, Port Jefferson, Long Iceland, New York) is an American ski jumper.
Frenette, who runs ski jumping since the age of six, was admitted in January 2009 in the national team. After he was initially active only in the FIS Cup, he gave on September 3, 2009 in Pyeongchang Ski Jumping Continental Cup in his debut and was able to jump in his first competition in this series with the 27th place in the points. After another Continental inserts, where he several times in the second passage jumped, he joined the FIS Cup in Lauscha and was able to jump with ranks 2 and 4 for the first time among the top ten in the Fis - Cup. At the Junior World Championship 2010 in Hinterzarten he jumped on the twelfth.
Then he was even though he has never called sprang a surprise to the team for the Olympics in Vancouver in the World Cup. At the normal hill he reached on points with Nick Alexander the 41st place. From the large hill as he missed the 32 second passage just barely. With the team he finished eleventh and penultimate place.
In summer 2010, he finished at the Continental Cup in Lillehammer (Norway ) places 53 and 22 in Oslo, he missed both jumping the second round. A few days later, he finished the Fis - Cup in Falun second place. The next day he went for his first FIS Cup victory. This summer, he was the only American who could reach the second passage in the Continental Cup. 9 January 2011 he was able to climb the podium for the first time as the second one Continental Cup Jumping in Sapporo, Japan. Thus, it is currently the best U.S. ski jumper. On 16 January 2011, he reached - also in Sapporo - with number 18 his first World Cup points.
Frenette visited by 2010, the Saranac Lake High School in Saranac Lake. Although he received an approval for the University of Denver, he turned it off, to devote himself fully to the ski jumping.