Marina Kiehl

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Olympic medal record
Women's Alpine skiing
Gold	1988 Calgary	Downhill

Marina Kiehl (born January 12, 1965 in Munich, Bavaria). Is a former West German Alpine skier. She won her first World Cup victory in a Super-G competition in the 1983/1984 season. In 1985 and 1986 Kiehl won the discipline World cups in Giant slalom and Super-G. The big highlight in Kiehls career came at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. Where she won a surprised gold medal in the downhill ahead of Brigitte Oertli and Karen Percy. Kiehl retired as alpine skier after the olympics in Calgary only 23 years old

Olympic champions in women's downhill Downhill
1948: Hedy Schlunegger | 1952: Trude Beiser-Jochum | 1956: Madeleine Berthod | 1960: Heidi Biebl | 1964: Christl Haas | 1968: Olga Pall | 1972: Marie-Theres Nadig | 1976: Rosi Mittermaier | 1980: Annemarie Moser-Pröll | 1984: Michela Figini | 1988: Marina Kiehl | 1992: Kerrin Lee-Gartner | 1994: Katja Seizinger | 1998: Katja Seizinger | 2002: Carole Montillet | 2006: Michaela Dorfmeister