Career
Buddy Werner was selected for the U.S. Olympic Team three times: 1956, 1960, & 1964. His best chance to medal was in 1960 at Squaw Valley, but Werner broke his leg two months before the games while slalom training in Aspen, Colorado.
A year earlier, he was the first non-European to win the famed Hahnenkamm downhill race in Kitzbühel, Austria, in 1959, at age 22. (The only American to win since was Daron Rahlves in 2003, on a fog-shortened course. Three Canadians, Ken Read, Steve Podborski, and Todd Brooker, have won the race.)
Werner finished in fourth in the slalom at the 1958 World Championships and took fifth in the giant slalom; he also finished fifth in the giant slalom at the 1962 World Championships. He placed eighth in the slalom at the 1964 Olympics, behind teammates (and medalists) Billy Kidd and Jimmie Heuga. Although Werner never won an Olympic or World Championship medal, he is considered the first world-class ski racer from the U.S.; he excelled in all three alpine disciplines.
Read more about this topic: Buddy Werner
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)
“In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)
“John Brown’s career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of nothing so miraculous in our history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)