1. Alice Robinson was born on 1 December 2001 and is a New Zealand World Cup alpine ski racer.
21 Facts About Alice Robinson
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Alice Robinson represented New Zealand in the giant slalom event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Alice Robinson started her ski racing career at Coronet Peak with the Queenstown Alpine Ski Team and trained in California, United States, with the Sugar Bowl Ski Team and Academy based in Tahoe City during the northern hemisphere winter.
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Alice Robinson won the under-14 and under-16 New Zealand titles before beginning her international career.
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Alice Robinson won the USSA U16 national championship giant slalom at Snowbird, Utah, and was runner-up in the super-G.
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Alice Robinson was 42nd and missed the cut to qualify for a second run by less than a second.
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On 28 January 2018, Alice Robinson was selected to the New Zealand team for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, alongside alpine racers Adam Barwood and Willis Feasey.
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Alice Robinson became New Zealand's youngest-ever Winter Olympian at 16 years and 70 days when the games began.
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At the Olympics, Alice Robinson was coached by former alpine Olympians Tim Cafe and Ben Griffin.
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Alice Robinson finished 35th in the giant slalom, the best result for a New Zealander in giant slalom at the Olympics in 38 years since Fiona Johnson and Anna Archibald were 30th and 32nd in 1980 at Lake Placid, New York.
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Alice Robinson failed to finish the first run of the slalom event.
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On 27 August 2018, Alice Robinson won the Audi Quattro Winter Games NZ FIS Australia New Zealand Cup Giant slalom.
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At the World Cup giant slalom on 2 February 2019 at Maribor, Slovenia, Alice Robinson was in 25th place after the first run, becoming the first New Zealander to qualify for the second run, but failed to finish.
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Less than a week later, at the Junior World Championships in Val di Fassa, Italy, Alice Robinson won the giant slalom by more than a second, becoming the first New Zealander to win a gold medal in the 38-year history of the Junior World Championships.
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Five days later, Alice Robinson competed at the World Cup finals giant slalom held in Grandvalira Soldeu, Andorra.
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Alice Robinson earned a berth in the event with her victory at the Junior World Championships the month prior.
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Alice Robinson was named the Otago Junior Sportswoman of the Year at the 2019 Otago Sports Awards.
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Alice Robinson began the 2020 season ranked a career-best tenth in the world in giant slalom.
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On 26 October 2019, Alice Robinson gained her first World Cup win on the Rettenbach glacier in Solden, Austria, 0.06 seconds ahead of runner-up Shiffrin.
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Alice Robinson is the first New Zealander to achieve this feat in any discipline.
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Alice Robinson won the Sky Sport Emerging Talent Award at the 2019 Halberg Awards.