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Scott Macartney

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Scott Macartney
Personal information
Born (1978-01-19) January 19, 1978 (age 46)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
OccupationAlpine skier
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, Super G,
Combined
ClubCrystal Mountain
World Cup debutNovember 27, 1999
(age 21)
WebsiteScott Macartney.com
Olympics
Teams2 - (2002, 2006)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams2 - (2005, 2007)
Medals0
World Cup
Seasons10
Wins0
Podiums2
Overall titles0
Discipline titles0 - (15th in SG, 2006)

Scott Macartney (born January 19, 1978) is a retired American World Cup alpine ski racer. He concentrated in the speed events of downhill and super-G.

Biography

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Born in Seattle, Washington, Macartney was raised in suburban Redmond, where his parents were public school teachers. He skied at the Crystal Mountain ski area, located 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Seattle, where his parents were members of the volunteer ski patrol on weekends. Macartney did not attend a ski academy, but graduated from Redmond High School in 1996 while working his way up through regional teams in the Northwest with limited funding. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics.[1]

Macartney competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was the first racer on the course in the downhill event at Snowbasin, and finished 29th. He attained his first World Cup podium on January 29, 2006, when he placed second at the Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

A few weeks later, he competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, where he finished 16th in the men's combined,
15th in the downhill and 7th in the super-G at Sestriere.

Injury at Kitzbühel

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On his 30th birthday in 2008, Macartney competed in the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel, Austria. The second racer on the course, he had an excellent run going until he suffered a spectacular fall just five seconds from the finish line. After descending the steep Zielschuss section and reaching a speed of 87.75 mph (141.22 km/h), Macartney was challenging for a top ten finish. At the final jump (Zielsprung), he was twisted left while airborne, could not recover, and crashed whilst finishing the race. He was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck, said to have suffered bruising to the brain, and was put into an induced coma.[2] He regained consciousness the next day.[3] As Macartney did not miss a gate, he finished the race in 33rd place with a time of 1:55.91, 3.16 seconds behind the winner, Didier Cuche.[4] Macartney's speed at the end of the Zielschuss was the highest of the race; the next closest speed was 86.5 mph (139.2 km/h) by Bode Miller, who tied for second.

Macartney recovered from his injuries and was named to the top team ("A Team") of the U.S. Ski Team for the 2008-09 World Cup season.[5]

World Cup results

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Season standings

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Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
2002 24 135 52
2003 25 55 13
2004 26 135 43
2005 27 114 51 57 16
2006 28 42 15 26 39
2007 29 70 37 29
2008 30 70 34 26
2009 31 95 44 36
2010 32 138 50

Top Ten finishes

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  • 2 podiums – (1 DH, 1 SG)
Season Date Location Race Place
2003 19 Jan 2003 Wengen, Switzerland Combined 8th
2006 16 Dec 2005 Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 7th
29 Jan 2006 Garmisch, Germany Super-G 2nd
2006 Winter Olympics
2007 1 Dec 2006 Beaver Creek, CO, USA Downhill 8th
2008 15 Dec 2007 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 3rd

World Championship results

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  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super G Downhill Combined
2005 27 28
2007 29 31 30

Olympic results

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  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super G Downhill Combined
2002 24 25 29
2006 28 7 15 16

References

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  1. ^ skiracing.com
  2. ^ BBC Online
  3. ^ "Alpine skier Macartney recovering after crash". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2008-09-23.
  4. ^ FIS-ski.com Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ U.S. Ski team

Further reading

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Kahn, Jennifer (November 2009). "Scott Macartney's Comeback". Outside. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Mariah Media.

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