1. Tamara McKinney was born on October 16,1962 and is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.
10 Facts About Tamara McKinney
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Tamara McKinney won four World Cup season titles, most notably the 1983 overall, the first American woman title holder for a quarter century.
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Tamara McKinney was a world champion in the combined event in 1989, her final year of competition.
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Tamara McKinney's half-brother Steve McKinney was a world-record holding speed skier, setting seven world records and breaking his own record twice.
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Tamara McKinney made her World Cup debut in December 1978 at age 16 with a podium finish in a slalom in Italy.
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Tamara McKinney raced on the World Cup circuit for eleven seasons, and competed in three Olympics and five world championships.
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Tamara McKinney won four medals in the world championships; bronze medals in the combined and slalom, and a gold medal in the combined at Vail in 1989.
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In 1984 Tamara McKinney won the slalom title, and took fourth place in the giant slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, behind teammates Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper.
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Tamara McKinney participated in Prince Edward Windsor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's charity television special The Grand Knockout Tournament in 1987.
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Tamara McKinney was inducted in the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004, was a realtor in the Lake Tahoe area, and is coaching skiing at the Aspen Valley Ski Club in Aspen, Colorado for Johno McBride.