Marco Sullivan
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| Disciplines | Giant Slalom, Super G, Downhill, Super Combined |
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| Club | Squaw Valley Ski Team |
| Born | April 27, 1980 Truckee, California, USA |
| Height | 6 ft/ 1.83 m[1] |
| World Cup debut | 2001 |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 1 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 3 |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 9 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 3 |
Marco Sullivan (born April 27, 1980, in Truckee, California[2] ) is an alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. He competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, and has won one World Cup race, on January 26, 2008 in Chamonix, France.
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[edit] Olympics
[edit] 2002
[edit] World Championships
Sullivan first raced in the World Championships in 2003, where he finished 17th in the Super G and 24th in the Downhill.[2]
[edit] World Cup
Since making his World Cup debut in December 2001, Sullivan has one victory, a downhill at Chamonix, France, on January 26, 2008.[2] He won the renowned Kandahar downhill in Chamonix in 2:00.11, ahead of Swiss star Didier Cuche.[3]
He missed two seasons (2004 & 2005) due to a knee injury.[4]
Sullivan attained his first World Cup podium (top-3) on November 24, 2007, when he finished second at the season's first downhill at Lake Louise, a good-for-gliders course in the Canadian Rockies.
[edit] U.S. Ski Championships
Sullivan was the Downhill champion at the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2007 in the Alyeska Resort in Alaska. In this race he beat second-place Erik Fisher by more than a second.[5]
[edit] External links
- FIS-ski.com – results – Marco Sullivan
- FIS-ski.com – World Cup season standings – Marco Sullivan – 2002–09
- Ski-db.com – results – Marco Sullivan
- U.S. Ski Team.com – profile – Marco Sullivan
[edit] References
- ^ "U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios – MARCO SULLIVAN". United States Ski Team. http://www3.usskiteam.com/PublishingFolder/2255.htm.
- ^ a b c Marco Sullivan at the International Ski Federation
- ^ "Sullivan Wins Chamonix Downhill". U.S. Ski Team. January 26, 2008. http://www.usskiteam.com/public/news.php?dId=2&aId=3364.
- ^ "U.S. skier Marco Sullivan out for season". MSNBC. October 29, 2004. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6365960/.
- ^ "Sullivan wins downhill; Bode Miller 12th". Anchorage Daily News. March 31, 2007. http://dwb.adn.com/outdoors/skiing/story/8751818p-8653321c.html.
