Stephani Victor
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| Born | August 29, 1969 Ames, Iowa, U.S. |
| Occupation | Alpine skier |
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Stephani Victor (born August 29, 1969) is an LW 12–2 alpine skier Paralympic multi medalist.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Stephani Victor was born on August 29, 1969, in Ames, Iowa. She finished high school in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and graduated from a film studies program at the University of Southern California in 1992.[1]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Stephani Victor lost her legs after she was pinned between two cars. "The seemingly insurmountable challenge of no longer having legs was so difficult and extreme beyond my imagination that it forced me to fight to maintain my independence. The fight began with a single pull-up in my hospital bed and evolved into a relentless search for the sport I could dedicate myself to." That search led her to Marcel Kuonen, then-head coach at the National Ability Center in Park City, Utah. Kuonen, himself a former Swiss Ski Team racer, saw Victor's potential and sparked in her the vision to recreate herself as the best alpine ski racer in the world, despite having no legs. Their teamwork and partnership developed into a lifelong committed union, and in 2004, on a glacier in Zermatt, Switzerland, Kuonen proposed to Victor. They married in Deer Valley, Utah, in 2005. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Career
[edit | edit source]Competing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the women's super combined sitting event. She also won silver medals in the women's sitting slalom and the women's sitting giant slalom.[2]
Awards and honours
[edit | edit source]Victor was named the Paralympic Sportswoman of the year by the United States Olympic Committee in 2009.[3]
References
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https://www.paralympic.org/stephani-victor
External links
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- Official website
- Stephani Victor at Team USA (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Stephani Victor at the International Paralympic Committee
- Stephani Victor at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- American female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic alpine skiers for the United States
- Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- Living people
- 1969 births
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- American Paralympic medalist stubs
- American alpine skiing biography stubs