GREENE Nancy (CAN) Web: 11.05.1943 Ottawa SKI: Rossignol 1968 retired Grenoble 1968 GS/ 1st Grenoble 1968 SL/ 2nd World Cup Ranking General 1967/1st, 1968/1st Special 1967 SL/3rd, GS/1st, DH/6th. 1968 GS/1st, DH/4th, SL/4th. World Championships 1962 Chamonix. DH/5th. 1966 Portillo. GS/3rd, Olympic Games 1968 Grenoble DH/10th, SL/2nd, GS/1st, K/1st. World Cup - 13 w. (3 DH, 2 SL, 8 GS) 1. DH: Grindelwald 67, Chamonix 68, Aspen 68 SL: Oberstaufen 67, ASpen 68 GS: Oberstaufen 67, Vail 67, Jackson Hole 67, Grindelwald 67, Grindelwald 68, Grenoble(JO) 68, Aspen 68, Rossland 68 2. SL: Grenoble(JO) 68, Heavenly Valley 68 3. SL: Schruns 67, Jackson Hole 67, Oberstaufen 68 GS: Franconia 67, Oberstaufen 68 4. DH: Schruns 67 Nancy Greene was known by many as the Jean Claude Killy of women's ski racing. Although she was definitely an original. Greene stood alongside the famous Frenchman in 1967 as winner of the first overall World Cups. To do it Nancy had to beat her toughest rival, Marielle Goitschel in the final race of the 1966/67 season...where she won by a mere 7/100's of a second. It was an impressive achievement for the young Canadian star. Greene was forced to skip some of the competitions in February to take part in her own national championships. But Nancy won seven races that winter and followed Killy to Olympic gold in 1968 in Grenoble by winning the GS. Shortly after she cemented her hold on women's racing by taking her second consecutive Overall World Cup. Goitschel, who won seven gold medals from 1962 to 1968 in all the classical events, had four victories in 1967. She never conquered the newly created World Cup title. Nancy, nicknamed the "Tiger" because of her incredible aggressiveness on course, burst onto the ski scene at the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley. Yet she had to wait seven years before reaching the top level in international ski racing. Greene established herself as one of Canada's most popular personalities before retiring. Successful in business, she became a strong force of Canada's ski team, which produced great champions in the next two decades. She inspired World and Olympic champions such as Betsy Clifford (1979), Kathy Kreiner (1976), Laurie Graham (1982) as well as the colorful wave of the "Crazy Canucks", like World cup downhill champ Steve Podborski, Ken Read, Dave Irwin, and Dave Murray. She also helped start Whistler/Blackcomb Mountain in British Columbia, and owned a hotel there. Married to Al Raine, also a ski coach, her son was a member of the national ski team in the 1990's. Biorama Basel Japanese