Kerrin Lee-Gartner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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alpine skier
Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1966
Place of Birth: Trail, British Columbia, Canada
Profession: alpine skier
Nationality: Canada
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
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About Kerrin Lee-Gartner
- Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada. Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain.
- Lee-Gartner started skiing for the Canadian Women's Ski Team in 1982, but suffered a number of knee operations over the years including two complete reconstructions.
- She attained her first World Cup podium early in December 1990, then had five more top-six finishes early in the 1992 season entering the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. On the Roc de Fer course at Méribel, Lee-Gartner won the gold medal in the Olympic downhill.
- Only 0.06 seconds behind was silver medallist Hilary Lindh of the U.S., for a North American 1–2 finish.
- Through 2018, it remains the only victory in an Olympic downhill by a Canadian.
- She finished sixth in the Olympic super-G and had two more podiums after the Olympics, both in North America, to finish up the 1992 season. Lee-Gartner's next season in 1993 was her best on the World Cup circuit, with two podiums and twelve top tens.
- She finished third in the downhill standings and ninth overall.
- At the World Championships in Japan, she was fourth in the super-G and ninth in the downhill. Leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friend Ulrike Maier after a crash in a downhill race in late January.
- At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in the super-G and 19th in the downhill, and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the 1994 World Cup season. Lee-Gartner is currently a television broadcaster with CBC Sports in Canada.
- She also assisted the BBC with coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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