- Marina Kiehl
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Olympic medal record Women's Alpine skiing Gold 1988 Calgary Downhill Marina Kiehl (born 12 January 1965 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German former Alpine skier.
Competing for West Germany, she won her first World Cup victory in a Super-G competition in the 1983/1984 season. In 1985 and 1986 Kiehl won the discipline World cups in Giant slalom and Super-G. The major highlight in Kiehl's career came at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, when she won a gold medal in the downhill ahead of Brigitte Oertli and Karen Percy.[1]
Kiehl retired as alpine skier after the Olympics in Calgary only 23 years old.
World Cup victories
Date Location Race 4 March 1984 Mont Sainte-Anne Super-G 15 December 1984 Madonna di Campiglio Giant Slalom 26 January 1985 Arosa Super-G 10 March 1985 Banff Super-G 7 December 1985 Sestriere Super-G 16 March 1986 Vail Super-G 15 March 1987 Vail Super-G Olympic Champions in Women's Downhill 1948: Hedy Schlunegger | 1952: Trude Beiser-Jochum | 1956: Madeleine Berthod | 1960: Heidi Biebl | 1964: Christl Haas | 1968: Olga Pall | 1972: Marie-Theres Nadig | 1976: Rosi Mittermaier | 1980: Annemarie Moser-Pröll | 1984: Michela Figini | 1988: Marina Kiehl | 1992: Kerrin Lee-Gartner | 1994: Katja Seizinger | 1998: Katja Seizinger | 2002: Carole Montillet | 2006: Michaela Dorfmeister | 2010: Lindsey VonnReferences
Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Munich
- German female alpine skiers
- Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
- Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- German Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Alpine skiing biography stubs
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