Marina Kiehl is a German

West Germany

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 former Alpine skier

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

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Competing for West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

, she won her first World Cup victory

Alpine skiing World Cup

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 in a Super-G competition in the 1983/1984 season. In 1985 and 1986 Kiehl won the discipline World cups in Giant slalom and Super-G. The major highlight in Kiehl's career came at the 1988 Olympics

1988 Winter Olympics

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 in Calgary

Calgary

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, when she won a gold medal in the downhill ahead of Brigitte Oertli

Brigitte Oertli

Brigitte Oertli is a former Swiss alpine skier.In Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics, Oertli won silver medals in Downhill and Alpine Combined.-External links:* * - Results - Brigitte Oertli...

 and Karen Percy

Karen Percy

Karen Percy Lowe is a former Canadian alpine skier. She was born in Banff, Alberta. She won 2 bronze medals in skiing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics...

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Kiehl retired as alpine skier after the Olympics in Calgary only 23 years old.

World Cup victories

Date	Location	Race
4 March 1984	Mont Sainte-Anne	Super-G
15 December 1984	Madonna di Campiglio Madonna di Campiglio Madonna di Campiglio is a village and a ski resort in northeast Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of Pinzolo. The village lies in the Val Rendena at an altitude of 1,522 m...	Giant Slalom
26 January 1985	Arosa Arosa Arosa is a town and a municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is both a summer and a winter tourist resort.-History:...	Super-G
10 March 1985	Banff Banff, Alberta Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise....	Super-G
7 December 1985	Sestriere Sestriere Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....	Super-G
16 March 1986	Vail Vail, Colorado The Town of Vail is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population of the town was 4,589 in 2005. The town was established and built as the base village to Vail Ski Resort, with which it was originally conceived...	Super-G
15 March 1987	Vail	Super-G