1. Jean Marlene Saubert was an alpine ski racer from the United States.
13 Facts About Jean Saubert
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Jean Saubert won two medals in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria.
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Jean Saubert learned to ski at Hoodoo Butte and raced competitively at Mount Hood and Mount Bachelor.
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In 1962, Jean Saubert earned a spot on the US Ski Team and her first international competition was the 1962 World Championships in Chamonix, France, where she finished sixth in the giant slalom.
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Jean Saubert won a total of 8 US championships in her racing career.
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At the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Jean Saubert won a bronze medal in the slalom and a silver medal in the giant slalom, losing only to French sisters Christine and Marielle Goitschel.
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Jean Saubert was the only multiple medal winner for the US in those Olympics, and her medals represented two of the six medals won by the entire United States team.
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Two years later, Jean Saubert finished fourth in the slalom at the 1966 World Championships in Portillo, Chile.
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Jean Saubert returned to Oregon and graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis in 1966.
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Jean Saubert joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and earned a master's degree at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
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Jean Saubert was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1976, and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Jean Saubert was chosen to be one of the torchbearers for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Jean Saubert was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, and died of the disease at age 65 in Bigfork, Montana where she lived, on May 14,2007.