Marco Sullivan

Marco Sullivan

Disciplines	Giant Slalom, Super G, Downhill, Super Combined
Club	Squaw Valley Ski Team
Born	April 27, 1980 (1980-04-27) (age 31) 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.

Olympics

2002

• Finished ninth in the Downhill
• Did Not Finish in the Super-G

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]

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.

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]

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

References

1. ^ "U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios – MARCO SULLIVAN". United States Ski Team. http://www3.usskiteam.com/PublishingFolder/2255.htm. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Marco Sullivan at the International Ski Federation
3. ^ "Sullivan Wins Chamonix Downhill". U.S. Ski Team. January 26, 2008. http://www.usskiteam.com/public/news.php?dId=2&aId=3364. 
4. ^ "U.S. skier Marco Sullivan out for season". MSNBC. October 29, 2004. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6365960/. 
5. ^ "Sullivan wins downhill; Bode Miller 12th". Anchorage Daily News. March 31, 2007. http://dwb.adn.com/outdoors/skiing/story/8751818p-8653321c.html. 

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Name	Sullivan, Marco
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Date of birth	April 27, 1980
Place of birth	Truckee, California, USA
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