Eva Twardokens
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Eva Twardokens (born April 28, 1965, in Reno, Nevada) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer. She made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 1982.
Twardokens achieved a significant milestone early in her career, winning the bronze medal in the giant slalom at the 1985 World Championships.[1] She went on to represent the U.S. in two Winter Olympics (1992, 1994).[2] On the World Cup circuit, she had three podiums and 34 top ten finishes.[3] She retired from international competition after the 1995 season.
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She was inducted to the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame class of 2011 on April 14, 2012.
Her father, Jerzy Twardokens, was an Olympian who represented Poland in fencing at the 1952 Olympics. He defected to the United States in Philadelphia in 1958.[2] Later, he became a professor at the University of Nevada in Reno.[5]
In February 2019, Twardokens was seriously injured in a private plane crash near Watsonville, California.[5]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 17 | 66 | — | — | — | — | 24 |
| 1984 | 18 | 77 | — | — | — | — | 30 |
| 1985 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 10 | — | — | 23 |
| 1986 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 25 | — | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | 40 | 23 | 25 | — | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | ||||||
| 1989 | 23 | 80 | 37 | — | — | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | 64 | 27 | 39 | — | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 35 | — | 19 |
| 1992 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 21 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | 101 | — | 40 | — | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | 23 | 37 | 9 | 60 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | 38 | — | 13 | 34 | — | — |
Race podiums
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 26 Jan 1985 | Template:Flagicon Arosa, Switzerland | Super-G | 2nd |
| 1991 | 10 Feb 1991 | Template:Flagicon Zwiesel, Germany | Giant slalom | 2nd |
| 1992 | 20 Jan 1992 | Template:Flagicon Piancavallo, Italy | Giant slalom | 3rd |
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 19 | 10 | 3 | — | — | 7 |
| 1987 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 14 | — | 8 |
| 1989 | 23 | 8 | 17 | — | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | — | 5 | — | — | — |
Olympic results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 26 | DNF1 | 7 | 8 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | DNF2 | 6 | — | — | — |
References
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- ↑ International Ski Federation 1985 results
- ↑ a b New York Times, February 18, 1992
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External links
- Template:FIS alpine skier
- Eva Twardokens World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
- Template:Ski-DB
- Template:SR/Olympics profile
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame – Eva Twardokens
- Pages with script errors
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Olympic alpine skiers for the United States
- Skiers from Reno, Nevada
- American people of Polish descent
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Olympic Valley, California