Tamara McKinney

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Medal record
Women's Alpine Skiing
World Championships
Gold	1989 Vail	Combined
Bronze	1985 Bormio	Combined
Bronze	1987 Crans-Montana	Combined
Bronze	1989 Vail	Slalom

Tamara McKinney (born October 16, 1962) is a former American alpine ski racer. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1983, the only American woman to ever hold that title.

Contents 1 Career 2 World Cup victories 2.1 Overall victories 2.2 Individual victories 3 External links

[edit] Career

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, the diminutive (162 cm/5 ft 4 in; 52 kg/115 lb) McKinney grew up in Squaw Valley, California, the youngest of seven children. She won four medals in the World Championships; bronze medals in the combined (1985, 1987) and slalom (1989), and a gold medal in the combined at Vail in 1989.

While winning the overall World Cup in 1983, she also won the giant slalom title, which she also had won in 1981. In 1984 McKinney won the slalom title.

Tamara McKinney retired from competitive ski racing following the 1989 World Cup season with 18 victories and 45 podiums. Along with Gretchen Fraser and Andrea Mead-Lawrence, McKinney is is regarded as one of the top female alpine ski racers in U.S. history.

She was inducted in the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.

[edit] World Cup victories

[edit] Overall victories

Season	Discipline
1983	Overall
1983	Giant Slalom
1984	Slalom

[edit] Individual victories

Date	Location	Race
January 20, 1981	Haute-Nendaz	Giant Slalom
January 24, 1981	Les Gets	Giant Slalom
February 28, 1981	Waterville Valley	Giant Slalom
March 8, 1981	Aspen	Giant Slalom
December 5, 1982	Limone Piemonte	Slalom
January 9, 1983	Davos	Slalom
January 23, 1983	Saint-Gervais-les-Bains	Giant Slalom
March 8, 1983	Waterville Valley	Giant Slalom
March 9, 1983	Waterville Valley	Giant Slalom
March 13, 1983	Vail	Giant Slalom
March 20, 1983	Furano	Slalom
March 10, 1984	Waterville Valley	Giant Slalom
March 11, 1984	Waterville Valley	Slalom
March 23, 1984	Zwiesel	Giant Slalom
March 24, 1984	Oslo	Slalom
January 5, 1985	Maribor	Slalom
March 16, 1985	Waterville Valley	Slalom
December 18, 1986	Courmayeur	Slalom
January 11, 1987	Mellau	Slalom

[edit] External links

• FIS-ski.com Results
• Ski-db.com Results
• Ski World Cup.org Biography
• TIME.com - "For Purple Mountains' Majesty" (March 21, 1983)
• TIME.com - "Their Success Is All in the Family" (January 30, 1984)
• Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame (2004)