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Phil Mahre
Alpine skier
Disciplines
Downhill
,
Giant Slalom
,
Slalom
,
Combined
Club
White Pass
Born
May 10, 1957
(age 64)
Yakima
,
Washington
,
U.S.
Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
World Cup debut
December 5,
1975
(age 18)
Retired
March
1984
(age 26)
Website
mahretrainingcenter.com
Olympics
Teams
3 – (
1976
,
1980
,
1984
)
Medals
2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams
4 – (
1976
–
82
)
includes two
Olympics
Medals
2 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons
9 – (
1976
–
84
)
Wins
27 – (7
GS
, 9
SL
, 11
K
)
Podiums
69
Overall titles
3 – (
1981
,
1982
,
1983
)
Discipline titles
7 – (2
GS
, 1
SL
, 4
K
)
hide
Medal record
Men's
alpine skiing
Representing
the
United States
Olympic Games
1984 Sarajevo
Slalom
1980 Lake Placid
Slalom
World Championships
1980 Lake Placid
Combined
(born May 10, 1957) is a former
World Cup
alpine ski racer
, widely regarded as one of the greatest
American
skiers of all time. His total of 27 World Cup race wins is fourth among Americans, only behind
Lindsey Vonn
,
Mikaela Shiffrin
, and
Bode Miller
.
Born in
Yakima
,
Washington
, Phil and his twin brother
Steve
(four minutes younger) were both world class ski racers and competed on the World Cup circuit from
1976
to
1984
. Starting with the
1978
season, Mahre finished in the top three in the World Cup overall standings for six consecutive seasons, winning the title in the final three (
1981
,
1982
, and
1983
). The Mahre twins retired from World Cup racing in March 1984 at age 26.
On February 9, 2010, Mahre was the U.S. torch bearer to carry the
2010 Vancouver
torch across the border at the Blaine-Surrey
Peace Arch
.
U.S. Ski Team
Mahre earned a spot on the
U.S. Ski Team
in early 1973 at age 15. He was selected to the "A" team following the
1975
season and made his
World Cup
debut in December 1975 at
Val d'Isère
,
France
. Two months later he competed at the
1976 Winter Olympics
in
Innsbruck
,
Austria
, taking fifth in the
giant slalom
at age 18. He made his first podium in March with a second in a giant slalom at
Copper Mountain
,
Colorado
,and finished the
1976
World Cup season in 14th place in the overall standings. He won his first World Cup race the next season, a giant slalom at Val d'Isère in December
1976
,and followed it up with a
slalom
win in March at
Sun Valley
defeating the man who became his primary rival, the legendary
Swede
Ingemar Stenmark
, with twin brother Steve taking third. Mahre finished ninth in the overall standings for
1977
.
The following season established Mahre as one of the best ski racers in the world. In
1978
he placed second in the overall standings, followed by third in
1979
, despite breaking his lower left
tibia
in early March at the pre-Olympic giant slalom at
Whiteface
near
Lake Placid
.
]
At the
1980 Winter Olympics
in Lake Placid, he took the silver in the
slalom
behind Stenmark,along
combined
title (not an Olympic event in 1980, but official as a concurrent
World Championship
title). He again finished third in the overall World Cup standings for
1980
, and won the first of four consecutive discipline titles in the combined.
World Cup Overall Champion (1981–83)
Mahre's career reached its zenith over the next three seasons. He won the most prestigious title in alpine skiing, the overall World Cup title, three consecutive years from
1981
–
83
. He narrowly edged
Ingemar Stenmark
, who had previously won three consecutive overall titles from
1976
–
78
, by only 6 points to capture his first title in 1981. Mahre won primarily due to his results in the downhill and combined events, as Stenmark was uncomfortable in the downhill event. Mahre's finest year was
1982
when he took the event titles in the
giant slalom
,
slalom
, and
combined
, as well as the overall title. Mahre had eight wins and 20 podium finishes, and his 309 points were well ahead of Stenmark's 211. Twin brother Steve finished third overall at 183 points, and also won the
World Championship
in the giant slalom at
Schladming
,
Austria
. In
1983
, Mahre again beat Stenmark by a large margin for the overall title,along with taking a second straight GS title.
Only four other Americans have won the World Cup overall title:
Tamara McKinney
(
1983
),
Bode Miller
(
2005
,
2008
),
Lindsey Vonn
(
2008
,
2009
,
2010
,
2012
),
Mikaela Shiffrin
(
2017
,
2018
,
2019
).
1984 Olympics
At the
1984 Winter Olympics
in
Sarajevo
, Mahre again medaled in the
slalom
, this time taking the gold while Steve won the silver for a Mahre twin 1–2 sweep. Steve had led the first of two runs, skiing flawlessly and building a large half-second lead over Swede
Jonas Nilsson
with Phil in third place, another two-tenths back. Phil skied a fine second run to grab the lead, then Nilsson skied next and faltered, dropping out of the medals. Steve skied down last, needing only a solid run to take the gold, but a series of mistakes dropped him into second place, and Phil became the Olympic champion. Meanwhile, unknown to the racers, Phil's wife Holly had given birth to their second child, a son, in
Arizona
an hour before the race started. Phil did not find out about it until a TV interview after the race.
The Mahres won two of the five alpine skiing medals taken by Americans, all from the
Northwest
.
Portland's
Bill Johnson
(
downhill
) and
Seattle
's
Debbie Armstrong
also won gold and
Christin Cooper
of
Sun Valley
took the silver for an American 1–2 finish in the
women's giant slalom
.
The Mahre twins raced a limited World Cup schedule during the
1984
season, and retired from the circuit in early March at age 26.Phil ended his career with 27 World Cup race victories, at the time second only to Stenmark's 79 wins among men's racers (who ended his career in
1989
with 86 wins), while Steve finished with 9 wins.
Post-retirement
In 1985, Phil and his brother released their book
No Hill Too Fast
, which chronicles their childhood and World Cup careers, and includes a series of instructional sections titled "How to Ski the Mahre Way". That same year the twins established the
Mahre Training Center
in
Keystone
,
Colorado
, and continue to run it to this day in
Deer Valley
,
Utah
. The twins attended the Bob Bondurant School of Driving in the fall of 1988 and began competing in
auto racing
. In 1988 Phil jumped to the World Pro Ski Tour winning the slalom title in 1989. Both he and brother Steve raced on the World Pro Ski Tour under the Coors Light banner. They are currently racing in the Grand American Road Racing Association Koni Challenge series, in the Grand Sport class.
Comeback
In 2006, at the age of 49, Phil Mahre decided it was time to come out of retirement and make another run at qualifying for the U.S. Nationals by the age of 50.
[30]
[31]
After nearly qualifying for the U.S. National Championships in 2008, Phil Mahre's 2008–09 season was cut short by a knee injury.
A longtime racer on
K2
skis during his World Cup career, Mahre attempted to make his comeback using
Volant
, then
Head
skis.
World Cup results
Season standings
Season
Age
Overall
Slalom
Giant
Slalom
Super-G
Downhill
Combined
1976
18
14
7
10
not run
—
—
1977
19
9
12
4
—
not
awarded
1978
20
2
3
3
—
1979
21
3
2
18
—
1980
22
3
12
9
—
1
1981
23
1
2
3
32
1
1982
24
1
1
1
26
1
1983
25
1
6
1
not
awarded
18
1
1984
26
15
9
19
39
11
Points were only awarded for top ten finishes thru 1979, top 15 thru 1991 (see
scoring system
).
Season titles
10 titles: 3 overall,
2
giant slalom
, 1
slalom
,
4
combined
Season
Discipline
1980
Combined
1981
Overall
Combined
1982
Overall
Giant Slalom
Slalom
Combined
1983
Overall
Giant Slalom
Combined
Individual races
27 wins: 7
giant slalom
, 9
slalom
, 11
combined
69 podiums
Season
Date
Location
Discipline
1977
1976-Dec-10
Val d'Isère
,
France
Giant Slalom
1977-Mar-05
Sun Valley
,
ID
,
USA
Slalom
1978
1978-Feb-12
Chamonix
, France
Slalom
1978-Mar-03
Stratton Mountain
,
VT
, USA
Giant Slalom
1979
1979-Jan-15
Crans-Montana
,
Switzerland
Combined
1979-Feb-05
Jasná
,
Czechoslovakia
Slalom
1980
1979-Dec-08
Val d'Isère, France
Combined
1981
1981-Jan-10
Morzine
, France
Combined
1981-Jan-17
Oberstaufen
,
West Germany
Combined
1981-Feb-01
St. Anton
,
Austria
Combined
1981-Feb-15
Åre
,
Sweden
Slalom
1981-Mar-07
Aspen
,
CO
, USA
Giant Slalom
1981-Mar-15
Furano
,
Japan
Slalom
1982
1981-Dec-08
Aprica
,
Italy
Combined
1981-Dec-09
Madonna di Campiglio
, Italy
Slalom
1981-Dec-13
Madonna di Campiglio, Italy
Combined
1982-Jan-15
Bad Wiessee
, West Germany
Combined
1982-Jan-24
Wengen
, Switzerland
Slalom
1982-Mar-14
Montgenèvre
, France
Slalom
1982-Mar-19
Kranjska Gora
,
Yugoslavia
Giant Slalom
1982-Mar-26
Jasná, Czechoslovakia
Slalom
1983
1983-Jan-23
Kitzbühel
, Austria
Combined
1983-Feb-06
St. Anton, Austria
Combined
1983-Feb-11
Markstein
, France
Combined
1983-Mar-07
Aspen, CO, USA
Giant Slalom
1983-Mar-08
Vail
, CO, USA
Giant Slalom
1983-Mar-19
Furano, Japan
Giant Slalom
World championship results
Year
Age
Slalom
Giant
Slalom
Super-G
Downhill
Combined
1976
18
18
5
not run
—
—
1978
20
DNF1
5
36
—
1980
22
2
10
14
1
1982
24
DNF2
DNF1
—
—
From
1948
through
1980
, the
Winter Olympics
were also the
World Championships
for alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from 1954 through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL).
Olympic results
Year
Age
Slalom
Giant
Slalom
Super-G
Downhill
Combined
1976
18
18
5
not run
—
not run
1980
22
2
10
14
1984
26
1
8
—
Racing record
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
Year
Track
Car
Engine
Class
Finish
Start
Status
1991
Road Atlanta
Oldsmobile Cutlass
Oldsmobile
GT1
1
1
Running