Stacey Cook

Stacey Janelle Cook ( born July 3, 1984 in Truckee, California) is an American alpine skier. It belongs since 2004 to the U.S. Ski Team and specializes in the disciplines of downhill and Super -G.

Biography

Cook learned at the age of four years in the ski resort around Lake Tahoe to ski. Her talent helped her even as a young girl to a grant from the lakeside ski Northstar, where she also played their first race and won.

After numerous FIS races she debuted in March 2001 as a 16- year-old in Nor- Am Cup. Cook quickly closed on the top runners. Only one and a half years after her first race, she celebrated at downhill skiing Lake Louise her first victory in this North American racing series and landed at the end of the 2002/03 season in the discipline ratings of Nor -Am Cup both in the downhill, as well as in Super -G each in third place. In the following season, she dominated the speed disciplines. Cook won all four Nor -Am Cup runs of winter and secured with six placings in the top ten in the Super- G, the overall ranking of the Nor -Am Cup 2004.

Your good performances served her as a guarantor for the leap into the U.S. National Ski Team. Finally, she denied on 30 January 2004 at the departure of the Austrian House in Enns her first World Cup race. It took, however - also hampered by a bad fall that forced them to a multi-week break in early January 2005 - almost one and a half years before they could enter their first World Cup points.

At the start of season 2005/ 06 Cook drove but then the two slopes of Lake Louise as a complete surprise to the courts 10 and 8 and qualified with these results for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In the following race, however, she was not able to assert itself in the front ranks, and remained in the U.S. ski team in the second term. Only at the beginning of the season 2006/ 07 she was able with the fourth place in the departure of Lake Louise again a place among the top ten. During the next six years, this was her best World Cup result since constant rankings on the front ranks still stayed away. The sixth place in the Super G in Tarvisio end of the season was also their last top- 10 finish in the World Cup for the next three years. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre they took the 16th place in the downhill.

In the 2007 /08 season, Cook went four times in the top 15, but in the 2008 /09 season they came in only three World Cup races into the top 30, all the more surprising were their findings at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere, where they Ninth in the downhill and was in the super combined and ranked 22nd in the Super- G remained with 16th place well ahead of its best World Cup results this winter. In the 2009/10 season, Cook went back four times into the top 15, with her ​​first top- 10 finish in the World Cup succeeded in ninth place in the departure of the house in the Enns Valley since March 2007. Thus it was at the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver again part of the U.S. squad will be in the downhill, which she finished in eleventh place.

In the season 2010/11 Cook reached fifth place in the departure of Åre and ninth place in the departure of Lenzerheide two top-10 results in the World Cup. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she was 25th in the downhill. Legal proof they showed in the 2011/12 season, in which they drove in five runs into the top ten for the first time and came in the top ten in the downhill World Cup. In the first speed races of the season 2012/13, the slopes in Lake Louise on November 30 and December 1, she finally reached as each second behind Lindsey Vonn their first World Cup podiums.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Turin 2006: 19 Downhill, Giant Slalom 23
  • Vancouver 2010: 11 Departure
  • Sochi 2014: 17 Departure

World Championships

  • Åre 2007: 16 Departure
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 9 exit 16 Super Combined, Super G 22
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 25 Departure
  • Schladming 2013: 6 exit 18 Super Combined

Junior World Championships

  • Puy Saint -Vincent 2003: 18 Departure
  • Maribor 2004: 19 combination, 20 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 24, 25 downhill, slalom 50

World Cup

  • Season 2011/12: 10 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 2012/13: 4 downhill World Cup
  • 6 placements in the top five, including two podiums

Nor- Am Cup

  • Season 2002/ 03: 9th overall, 3rd exit rating, third Super -G standings
  • Season 2003/ 04: overall winner, 1st exit rating, third Super -G standings
  • Season 2004/ 05: 2 Super -G standings
  • 11 podiums, including 8 wins

Other successes

  • 3 U.S. Championship titles (Super -G in 2006 and 2008, departure 2008)
  • 1 podium in the European Cup
  • 18 wins in FIS races
Alpine skiing combined 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Lake Louise (Alberta) 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013
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