Event class: world cup, world championships, finished, winter olympics, event, championships, team, world, first, slalom

Events with high posterior probability

Dominique Gisin	Her first World Cup podium was in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, where she placed second in the downhill on January 13, 2007.
Bucky Lasek	As of 2006, Lasek has won ten medals at the X Games, including seven gold medals, and is one of only two vert skateboarders to have won three X Games gold medals consecutively -- the other is Pierre-Luc Gagnon.
Lydia Lassila	At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Lassila won gold in the aerials, getting Australia's second gold medal for the games after snowboarder Torah Bright won gold in the halfpipe, incidentally also at Cypress Mountain.
Ricarda Lisk	jpg | Ricarda Lisk at the European Cup triathlon in Quarteira, 2011.
Gregor Schlierenzauer	On December 3, 2006, Schlierenzauer took his first World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway, and became one of the youngest jumpers to ever win in Lillehammer.
Maxim Vylegzhanin	Vylegzhanin's best individual World Cup finish was first place in the 30 km in La Clusaz in December 2010.
Mark Mitchell (American figure skater)	He won the bronze medal at the 1990 United States Figure Skating Championships, but was not named to the World team, despite the U. S. having three spots to that competition.
Thomas Morgenstern	In January 2011, he won his first ski flying event in Harrachov, and fixed his second victory of the ski jumping world cup with a 5th place at the ski flying competition on the Vikersundbakken on 13 February.
Sandrine Bailly	She is well-remembered for winning the pursuit gold medal during the 2003 World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, sharing it with German biathlete Martina Glagow as both had exactly the same time on the finish line, a first in biathlon history.
B?la Szepes	At the 1924 Winter Olympics he participated in the 18 kilometre cross-country skiing event and in the Nordic combined but did not finish either of the races.
Georgia Gould	In 2007 she won the gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Mountain Bike Championships in Neuquén, Argentina, propelling the US Women's mountain biking program to the top of international rankings.
Reinfried Herbst	After two victories in the 2008 season he finished 3rd in the slalom world cup.
Toni Innauer	His best known success was at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, where he won a gold medal in the Individual normal hill event.
Marianne St-Gelais	St-Gelais won her first ever World Cup medal in 500m short track speed skating at Vancouver in 2009.
Alex Harvey (skier)	At the 30 km pursuit in the 2011 World Championships Harvey took the lead early on in the freestyle portion of the race, but lost the lead with 2 km to go finishing at 13th place.
Bj?rn Wirkola	The 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were also held in conjunction with the Holmenkollen ski festival, making Wirkola the Holmenkollen champion as well (a feat he would repeat the following year).
Chemmy Alcott	The following winter Alcott won Silver (super G) and Bronze (giant slalom) medals at the 1999 European Youth Olympics in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia.
Luc Van Lierde	In 1996, he won the European Championships and came second in the World Championships in the Olympic Distance Triathlon.
Amy Peterson	In 2000, Peterson won all four distances at U. S. short track speed skating championships.
Magdalena Neuner	At her only appearance at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, she won gold in the pursuit and the mass start event.
Karl Schranz	During his lengthy career (1958 -- 72), Schranz won twenty major downhill s, many major giant slalom races and several major slaloms.
Milan Lucic	He finished the day atop Grouse Mountain, the same place where he and his Vancouver Giants teammates took the Memorial Cup after their CHL victory in 2007.
Johan Remen Evensen	A late bloomer, Evensen made his World Cup debut during the 2008 -- 09 season at age 23, and earned a place in the Norwegian World Cup team following consecutive top-12 finishes at Granåsen.
Eszter Pap	At the opening triathlon in Gladbeck (15 May 2011), Pap had the second best time and her team (Charlotte Morel, Mignon Vatlach, Scarlet Vatlach) placed first.
Paul Deem	At the 1977 U. S. National Cycling Championships in Seattle, Washington, Deem won first place in the individual time trial, individual pursuit, team pursuit, and the 100 km time trial.
Mike Lafferty (alpine skier)	Lafferty's first top ten result in a World Cup race was in December 1969, with a fifth place in a downhill at Val-d'Isère, France.
Bernhard Russi	The next month he won his first event, the downhill at the 1970 World Championships, ahead of Karl Cordin of Austria and Australian Malcolm Milne.
Laila Schou Nilsen	After the World War II Laila Schou Nilsen competed in alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where she finished 7th in downhill and 14th in slalom.
Thomas Grandi	He participated at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finishing 12th place in the Giant Slalom and 16th place in the slalom.
Christin Cooper	Cooper returned to form the following season with five early podiums before the 1984 Winter Olympics, and then won the silver medal in the Olympic giant slalom, 0.
C?sar Baena	As well on January 2013 he competed at the Sochi World Cup Sprint event in Rusia.
Tina Maze	She won her first race in the 2011 season in Tarvisio, Italy in the Super Combined.
Julius Skutnabb	At the 1924 Winter Olympics of Chamonix, he first won silver on the 5,000 m behind compatriot Clas Thunberg and the next day, he became Olympic Champion on the 10,000 m, while Thunberg took silver.
Andr?s Boira	In March 2009, with guide Aznar, he competed at the European Cup Alpine Skiing for the Disabled.
Dave Irwin	Irwin's first World Cup race was the downhill at Schladming, Austria on December 22, 1973 where he placed 14th.
Imre Pulai	Most assumed that would be the final medal of his long career, but in 2006 he made a comeback at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, winning a C-4 500 m bronze medal.
Michael Greis	This yielded him quite a solid performance throughout the year, with another two World Cup victories and the relay bronze at the Biathlon World Championships 2009 in South Korea.
Franz Klammer	In the Olympic tune-up run at Patscherkofel at Innsbruck in January 1975, Klammer had defeated defending Olympic champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland, the runner-up, by nearly a half-second.
Paul Curran (cyclist)	Curran continued to perform well on the track and competed at the World Championships in 1983 in the team pursuit and 50 km point's race.
Marielle Goitschel	Also, for the only time in 1968, the results of the Olympic races counted for World Cup points, so Goitschel's slalom gold medal is also listed as a World Cup race win in the table above.
Peetu Piiroinen	He finished 2nd in the Winter Olympics halfpipe event in 2010.
Marja Liisa Portin	In Karlovy Vary 1991 she took 8th place in short distance, 11th in Classic Distance and 5th place in relay event together with Mari Lukkarinen, Kirsi Tiira and Eija Koskivaara.
Anna Fenninger	At the 2010 Winter Olympics she placed 16th in the Super-G and the super combined events, and 25th in the downhill.
Gregor Schlierenzauer	After two second place finishes in Liberec and an eighth place finish in Willingen, he took part in the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf in 2008.
Tu?ba Karademir	At the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, Karademir placed 18th with her highest finish to date at that event.
Michaela Gigon	At the 2007 World Championships in Nove Mesto na Morave she won a gold medal in the long distance, a silver medal in the sprint and placed ninth in the middle distance, and won a bronze medal in the relay.
Danielle Brown	In 2011 she won an additional individual gold medal at the IPC World Championships in Turin, followed by two silver medals in the women's team event and the mixed team event.
Lindsey Vonn	In December 2009, Vonn sustained a bruised arm after a crash during the opening run of the World Cup giant slalom.
Peter Fill	In February 2002 Fill won the World Juniors and, as a result, took part in his first Super-G race of Ski World Cup on 7 March 2002 at Altenmarkt in Austria, where he placed an impressive 12th outpacing the Norwegian Lasse Kjus by one hundredth of a second.
Jesse Lumsden	He became partners with Lyndon Rush at the beginning of the 2012 season and the duo won their first World Cup Gold medal together in the two-man event on February 3, 2012.
Michaela Gigon	At the 2004 World Championships in Ballarat in 2004 she won the middle distance ahead of Laure Coupat and Belinda Allison, placed seventh in the long distance, and won a silver medal in the relay behind the Finnish team.
Franz Klammer	The following season he regained the World Cup Downhill title, his fifth, followed by the 1984 victory at Kitzbuehel, his fourth on the Hahnenkamm.
Kermit Weeks	In 1978 he was a runner-up among 61 competitors worldwide, earning three Silver medals and one Bronze medal in the FAI World Aerobatic Championships staged in Czechoslovakia.
Carlo Janka	Janka recovered well from the catheterization and resumed training five days later, winning the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on March 5 for his sole victory of the 2011 season.
Hanni Wenzel	In addition to her Olympic success, she won nine World Cup races in 1980 and captured the overall, giant slalom, and combined season titles.
Sandy Shellworth	Shellworth won the Roch Cup downhill in Aspen in 1967, and was the 1967 U. S. Champion in giant slalom at Missoula, but broke her leg hours later training for the downhill.
Anssi Koivuranta	This was high enough for him to clinch the 2008 -- 09 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup, his first world cup title, finishing 100 points above the man in second place, Magnus Moan.
Nicole Cooke	On 3 September 2006 she secured the UCI Women's Road World Cup for a second time after winning three world cup races in the season - La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, the Ladies Golden Hour and the Castilla y Leon World Cup Race.
Anna-Lena Fritzon	Fritzon's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was tenth in the 30 km event at Falun in 1993.
Sam Hill (mountain biker)	In 2003, at just 18, Sam Hill in the Elite category won both the Australian and Oceania Downhill Championships.
Martin Schmitt	At the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, he won both the individual and team large hills.
Johnny Spillane	At his second Olympics, the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, he finished 32nd in both sprint and individual events.
Deborah Compagnoni	In 1994, at the Lillehammer Olympics, she won gold medal in the Giant Slalom, a feat she repeated four years later in Nagano.
Scott Frandsen	He won two gold medals on the 2004 World Cup circuit, both in the Men's Eight event (in Munich, Germany and in Lucerne, Switzerland).
Jan Matura	His best individual World Cup result is a double victory in Sapporo on 19 and 20 January 2013.
Kristin Armstrong	At the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, Armstrong completed the biggest achievement of her career by winning the gold medal in the women's road time trial competition on August 13.
Rigard van Klooster	Based on his results he qualified for the 2012 European Track Championships where he finished 6th in the team sprint (together with Hylke van Grieken and Matthijs Büchli) and 12th in the keirin.
Michaela Kirchgasser	Kirchgasser attained her first World Cup podium in slalom on the third day of 2012 at Zagreb, Croatia.
Jenny Owens	Owens has been one of the top ranked Ski Cross athletes since her debut in 2005.
Tony Martin (cyclist)	Martin again took the bronze medal at the time trial at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships.
Hermann Maier	In 2000 he won the overall World Cup title, as well as the season titles in downhill, Super G, and giant slalom.
Katerina Smutna	Smutna's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 11th in the sprint event at Sapporo in 2007.
Gregor Schlierenzauer	On February 21 he won silver in the individual normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec behind fellow Austrian and Four Hills winner Wolfgang Loitzl.
Lydia Lassila	She is married to Lauri Lassila, a Finnish former professional freestyle skier, whose career included placing 2nd in moguls at the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships in 1999.
Marianne Vos	In 2010, Vos again won the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships, but became world champion Cyclo-cross again.
Jeremy Teela	Teela's best World Cup result was a 3rd place in an individual distance race at Whistler Mountain on March 11, 2009.
Marja Liisa Portin	1993 in Sibbo, Finland she placed 9th in classic distance and 5th in short distance, as well as received Nordic championship gold medal in relay event together with Marja Pyymäki, Kirsi Tiira and Eija Koskivaara.
Marlies Schild	In 2007 at Åre, Sweden, Schild won silver in the slalom and bronze in the combined.
Lee Kyou-hyuk	In December 2010, Lee won his 10th consecutive National Sprint Speed Skating Championships.
Katherine Reutter	At the 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships, in March 2009, Reutter won a bronze medal along with Kimberly Derrick, Alyson Dudek, Lana Gehring, and Jessica Smith.
Christin Cooper	Starting the 1977 season on the'' C'' team, she made her World Cup debut at age 17 on January 19 and finished 14th in a slalom at Schruns, Austria ; a week later she had a tenth place finish in the slalom at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
Olli Muotka	Muotka earned a bronze in the team event at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2010 in Planica.
Stefania Belmondo	At the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, she won golds in the 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit and the 30 km, and a silver in the 4 × 5 km before an injury to her right hallux required a surgery, and caused a 4 month absence from competition.
Nik Zoricic	Zoricic made his ski-cross debut at the Freestyle World Cup on 19 January 2009 in Lake Placid, finishing in 61st.
Denise Biellmann	At the 1980 Winter Olympics, she won the free skating event and placed fourth overall.
Hermann Maier	Maier won the overall World Cup title in 1998, as well as the Super-G and giant slalom season titles, and placed second in the downhill standings.
Wendy Houvenaghel	In October 2005, Houvenaghel won her first 3 km Individual Pursuit National Track title which was soon followed up by two World Cup wins, aged 31.
Petra Henzi	A year later, Henzi continued to flourish her ample success in mountain biking, as she collected a Swiss national championship title in women's cyclo-cross, and a prestigious silver medal in the marathon race at the 2006 UCI World Championships in Oisans, France.
Roman Sergeevich Trofimov	Trofimov also competed in the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2010 in Planica, Slovenia.
Ram?n Homs	At the January 2010 European Cup, he finished ninth in the Super Combined event.
Ingemar Stenmark	He only won in two disciplines : slalom and giant slalom (the other events are downhill, super-G, which did not exist until 1982, and combined).
Jan Smeekens	At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Smeekens finished sixth in the 500 m race.
Antti Autti	Just two weeks earlier, he was crowned double World Champion in Big Air and the halfpipe at the 2005 Snowboarding World Championships in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
Lucy Tyler-Sharman	In Canada in 1998 she won pursuit and points races and she won gold in the pursuit in the World Cup in Berlin.
Rachel Klamer	In 2009 she won the silver medal at the European Triathlon Championships in Holten (Junior) and the bronze medal at the Grand Final of the Dextro Energy World Championship Series (Junior).
Kim Hyun-Ki	Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the team large hill event at Salt Lake City in 2002 while his best individual finish was 31st in the individual large hill event at those same games.
Jiang Yibing	She also competed at the 1985 World Figure Skating Championships, where she placed 23rd.
Heather Moyse	At the 2008 World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, Moyse raced with Canada 3 pilot Lisa Szabon and the pair finished in 11th place.
Jamie Moriarty	His best World Cup finish was second in a four-man event at Lake Placid, New York on November 22, 2009.
Leah Poulos	The following year, Poulos Mueller finished second at the World Sprint Championships and one week later, at the 1980 Winter Olympics, she participated in the 500 m and the 1,000 m, winning silver in both. -RCB- -RCB-