Steven Nyman

Steven Nyman ( born February 12, 1982 in Provo, Utah) is an American alpine skier. He is a member since 2002 of the U.S. Ski Team and won the previous two runs in the World Cup. 2003 and 2005, he was U.S. champion in the downhill.

Biography

Nyman was at the age of two years for the first time on skis. At eight, he competed in the ski resort of Sundance, where his father ran a ski school, his first race. At 17, he joined in 1999 the training group of former U.S. national team coach Rob Clayton Park City and began to regularly attend the staged in North America FIS races. This move paid off. In 2002 he made ​​the jump to the squad of the U.S. team for the Junior World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy. He outclassed the European competition and was surprisingly Junior World Champion in slalom. He also won the silver medal in the Alpine combined. Six days after the end of the World Cup Nyman was on 9 March 2002 in the Slalom in Altenmarkt his debut in the World Cup and went immediately to the 15th place.

His other sporting development was hampered by a broken left leg that he incurred after the 2001/ 02 season when skateboarding. In the summer of 2002, he was thus able to hardly work. About FIS races and take-offs in the European Cup, he fought his way back to the top U.S. riders zoom and celebrated in March 2003 by winning the U.S. championship in downhill a successful comeback. On 22 January 2004, he broke off in a European Cup races again left leg. After he had reached in the 2004/05 season again already some top 10 places in the Nor -Am and European Cup, he was injured just before the World Cup again, so he had to miss four weeks. In April 2005, he won for the second time the U.S. Championships in the downhill. Since its many violations of Nyman mainly focused on the disciplines faster downhill and super -G and super combined.

Since the season 2005/ 06 Nyman regularly takes part in the World Cup races. In his Olympic debut in Torino in 2006 he reached the best ranking in 19th place in the downhill. On 1 December 2006 he came third in Beaver Creek Downhill in the World Cup for the first time on the podium, and on 16 December 2006 he celebrated in the downhill in Val Gardena his first World Cup victory. So he reached the tenth place in the downhill World Cup in the 2006/07 season. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre his best result was the ninth place in the super combined. The third World Cup podium succeeded Nyman on 30 November 2007 in the downhill on Beaver Creek, where he was second five hundredths of a second behind Michael Walchshofer.

In January 2009, Nyman injured in a fall in the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen. He had to pause for a few weeks and therefore missed the World Championships in Val d'Isere. At the 2010 Winter Olympics he finished 20th in the downhill and at the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen 13 in this discipline. In the World Cup Nyman drove in the seasons 2009/10 and 2010/ 11, two or three times into the top 20, he started next to it again in the Nor- Am Cup and won the 2009/10 season, the departure date. On November 8, 2011 Nyman suffered during downhill training in Copper Mountain a tear of the left Achilles tendon. He could therefore not participate in races in the season 2011/ 12 on.

In his comeback season 2012/13 Nyman was surprising to decide the World Cup downhill on the Saslong in Val Gardena for itself with the high start number 39. He celebrated so his second World Cup victory, almost exactly six years after he had won for the first time the World Cup downhill in Val Gardena.

In addition to his sports activities Nyman is also involved socially with the support of the Foundation A Child's Hope. In Haiti, he helped build an orphanage for 32 children.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Turin 2006: 19 Downhill, 29 combination, 43 Super -G
  • Vancouver 2010: 20 Departure
  • Sochi 2014: 27 Departure

World Championships

  • Åre 2007: 9 Super Combined, Super G 12 21 Departure
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 13 Departure
  • Schladming 2013: 25 Departure

Junior World Championships

  • Tarvisio 2002: 1 slalom, second combination, exit 13

World Cup

  • 4 podiums, including two victories:

Nor- Am Cup

  • Season 2004/ 05: 5th overall, 2nd downhill standings, 4 Super -G standings
  • Season 2009/ 10: 1st exit summary
  • 6 podiums, 5 wins:

Other successes

  • 2 wins in the European Cup
  • 1 victory in the South American Cup
  • 4 wins in FIS races (2 x Slalom, Giant Slalom 1 x, 1 x Super -G)
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