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Lucile Wheeler CM (born January 14, 1935) is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was a double world champion in 1958, the first North American to win a world title in the downhill event.
Wheeler won the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1958, given annually to Canada’s top athlete, and was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame that same year. She retired in 1959 and won the American Library Association’s Best Education Sports Film Award the following year for a ski instruction video.
A competitor at the 1952 Winter Olympics, she never placed better than 26th at any event. Nevertheless, six years later, she became the first North American Olympic medalist in alpine skiing’s downhill event, winning bronze in 1956.
23 de feb. de 2018 · In 1956, Lucile Wheeler became the first North American to win an Olympic medal in downhill skiing, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
18 de sept. de 2011 · Team Canada - Two-time Olympian Lucile Wheeler won the downhill bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo. She was the first North American to win an Olympic medal in the downhill race.
15 de mar. de 2010 · Lucile Wheeler, alpine skier (b at Montréal 14 Jan 1935). Wheeler started skiing at age 2, growing up on her family's ski resort at St-Jovite. She began competing in her teens and spent 5 winters of rigorous training at Kitzbühel, Austria, with coach Pepi Salvenmoser, one of the first North Americans to do so.
Born in 1935 in St. Jovite, Quebec; daughter of Harry Wheeler; married Kaye Vaughan (an Ottawa Roughrider football player). Won an Olympic bronze in the downhill (1956), behind gold medalist Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland; won the World championship in skiing (1958).
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