LILLEHAMMER 1994 Freestyle Moguls Final Women Olympic Games
Moguls, Women
Date 15 - 16 February 1994
Status Olympic
Location Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena, Lillehammer
Participants 24 from 13 countries
Venue details Gradient: 26°
Length: 223 m
Start Elevation: 466 m
Vertical Drop: 98 m
Width: 11 m
The favorite was Donna Weinbrecht (USA), the defending gold medalist, who had won six straight World Cup events in the 1993-94 season. But a few weeks before the Lillehammer Games, she had been beaten by Norway’s Stine Lise Hattestad, the 1993 World Champion and overall World Cup Champion in 1992-93. Hattestad placed second in qualifying, which was led by American Liz McIntyre, while Weinbracht placed only sixth. The final was extremely close, but Weinbrecht was not a factor, placing seventh in her worst performance in years. Hattestad and McIntyre were almost equal. Their turns and air points were exactly equal (20.25) but Hattestad had been faster down the course by .32 seconds, earning her the gold medal by .08 points. The bronze medal went to Russian Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova who had won silver in Albertville.
Pos Nr Skier NOC
1 - Stine Lise Hattestad NOR
2 - Liz McIntyre USA
3 - Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova RUS
4 - Raphaëlle Monod FRA
5 - Candice Gilg FRA
6 - Tatjana Mittermayer GER
7 - Donna Weinbrecht USA
8 - Ann Battelle USA
9 - Bronwen Thomas CAN
10 - Silvia Marciandi ITA
11 - Tae Satoya JPN
12 - Lyudmila Dymchenko RUS
13 - Minna Karhu FIN
14 - Marina Cherkasova RUS
15 - Yelena Korolyova RUS
16 - Katherina Kubenk CAN
Пікірлер: 6
Donna should have won.
@sneauxone
2 жыл бұрын
The top 3 were only separated by .16 pts. Uncharacteristically, Donna was the slowest skier in the finals (30.79s) -- Kozhevnikova (29.00s), Stine (29.51), and Liz (29.83s). Donna lost some turn & line points for getting off balance right before the finish line and veering off her line. Plus, her air wasn't as strong as it usually was. I thought that Liz would have won--she had the best turn & line points. But she needed a tiny bit more in her air or speed to make up the .08 pts. Essentially, the top 3 were clumped so tightly together it was nearly a tie. Monod was clearly in 4th. And then only a fraction of a point (.44) separated 5th-7th.
@hbgap3596
2 жыл бұрын
@@sneauxone Thank you for these details. I must say that the Russian lady had a more elegant way of turning and absorbing than even Donna. Something Russian? Recalling Sergei Shupletsov.
@sneauxone
2 жыл бұрын
@@hbgap3596 In the 80s, the US Freestyle Team and coaches went to Russia to get their athletes more involved in freestyle to make it a full medal event. I'm not sure if any of our former athletes started coaching in Russia. I always felt that the Russians took the best of the techniques of the Americans and the Europeans and put them together. The Russians were always the best physically trained athletes and Sergey Shupletsov was amazing--he initially competed in all 3 events (ballet, mogul, aerials.)
@hbgap3596
2 жыл бұрын
@@sneauxone Looking at this again, Liz had the better turns but her jumps were not as spectacular as Stinelise's. But, Stinelise had definite bobbles after her second jump. I don't envy the judges and I'm not qualified to judge. I liked Yelizabet's absorption best, and she had a great time and jumps.
@sneauxone
2 жыл бұрын
@@hbgap3596 I definitely wouldn't want to judge. I did the math for the scores (but your observations were right on): Score = Turns/Line + Air + Speed Stine Lise Hattestad (29.51s) 14.0 + 6.25 + 5.72 = 25.97 Elizabeth Mcintyre (29.83s) 14.2 + 6.05 + 5.64 = 25.89 Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova (29.00s) 14.1 + 5.85 + 5.86 = 25.81 Donna Weinbrecht (30.79s) 13.5 + 5.50 + 5.38 = 24.38