olympicmedals worldsmedals olympicgolds birth_date olympicteams club image_size wctitles image name caption birth_place wcwins height wcseasons worldsgolds wcdebut retired wcoveralls skis disciplines wcpodiums weight worldsteams article_title
1 1 1 04 may 1957 3 -- -lrb- 1972 , 1976 , 1980 -rrb- timmins ski club 200 0 -rrb- '' -- '' -lrb- 4th in gs , 1977 kathykreiner.png kathy kreiner kreiner-phillips in 2010 with her 1976 olympic gold medal timmins , ontario , canada 1 -- -lrb- 1 gs -rrb- 5 8 10 -- -lrb- 1972 -- 1981 -rrb- 1 january -lrb- first top ten -rrb- '' 18 , 1972 -lrb- age 14 -rrb- '' march 1981 -lrb- age 23 -rrb- 0 -- '' -lrb- 10th in 1974 -rrb- '' rossignol giant slalom , slalom , downhill , combined 7 -- -lrb- 1 dh , 6 gs -rrb- 59 kg 5 76 , ' 78 , ' 80 -rrb- & nbsp -- ; & nbsp ; '' includes three olympics '' -lrb- 1972 , ' 74 , ' kathy kreiner

kathy kreiner

katharine `` kathy '' kreiner-phillips -lrb- born may 4 , 1957 -rrb- is a former world cup alpine ski racer and olympic gold medalist from canada .
she won the giant slalom at the 1976 winter olympics in innsbruck , austria .
first out of the gate on friday the 13th , kreiner prevented double gold medalist rosi mittermaier from sweeping the women 's alpine events , as mittermaier won the silver medal .
it was canada 's only gold medal in innsbruck .
born in timmins , ontario , kreiner was an alpine racing prodigy in canada , the youngest of six children of margaret -lrb- peggy -rrb- and harold o. kreiner -lrb- 1920 -- 1999 -rrb- , a timmins physician and her coach until she made the national team .
he was the team doctor for the canadian alpine ski team for the 1966 world championships in portillo , chile , and the canadian olympic team for the winter games in 1968 in grenoble , france .
kreiner made the national ` b ' team at age 13 for a year , and was promoted to the ` a ' team in the summer of 1971 .
she had her first world cup top ten result in mid-january 1972 , a sixth place in a downhill at grindelwald , switzerland .
three weeks later , kreiner placed 14th in the slalom at the 1972 winter olympics in sapporo , japan .
she made her first world cup podium in 1973 at alyeska in alaska in giant slalom , and gained her first and only world cup victory at age 16 in 1974 at pfronten , west germany .
kreiner raced 10 seasons on the world cup circuit and finished with 1 victory , 7 podiums , and 46 top tens .
after her olympic victory , she was named the canadian female athlete of the year in 1976 .
from 1948 to 1980 , the winter olympics also served as the world championships for alpine skiing , making the olympic champion the concurrent world champion .
kreiner was immediately inducted into the canada 's sports hall of fame at age 18 .
she was also inducted into the ontario sports hall of fame in 2002 .
kreiner 's olympic win in 1976 surprised even her ; she had shipped home most of her items from innsbruck and had to borrow a uniform for the medal ceremony .
her older sister laurie was also a world cup racer and two-time olympian ; she had the 28th starting position -lrb- of 43 -rrb- and had tears of joy for kathy while still in the starting gate and finished 27th .
laurie had just missed an olympic medal in 1972 with a fourth place in the giant slalom .
at the 1980 winter olympics at lake placid , kreiner finished fifth in the downhill and ninth in the giant slalom , held at whiteface mountain .
during her final season in 1981 , kreiner ascended her only world cup podium in downhill , and raced independent of the canadian national team .
her sixth and final podium in giant slalom came nearly four years earlier at sun valley in march 1977 .
kreiner married dave phillips , a former freetyle skier with the canadian national team .
as of 2010 , she remains the only olympic gold medalist from timmins .
