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Born | Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. | June 22, 1944||||||||||||||
Died | January 10, 2019 | (aged 74)||||||||||||||
Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||
Skiing career | |||||||||||||||
Disciplines | Downhill, giant slalom | ||||||||||||||
Club | Bogus Basin (ID) | ||||||||||||||
World Cup debut | January 1967 (age 22) (inaugural season) | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 1968 | ||||||||||||||
Olympics | |||||||||||||||
Teams | 1 – (1968) | ||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||
World Championships | |||||||||||||||
Teams | 1 – (1968 Olympics) | ||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||||
World Cup | |||||||||||||||
Seasons | 2 – (1967–68) | ||||||||||||||
Podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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Sandra "Sandy" Shellworth (December 18, 1944 – January 10, 2019)[1] was an alpine ski racer from the United States.
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Shellworth was raised in Boise, Idaho, where her father, Eugene Shellworth was mayor (1961–66).[2] A 1962 graduate of Boise High,[3] she raced for Bogus Basin, the University of Colorado,[2][4][5] and the U.S. Ski Team.[6]
Shellworth won the Roch Cup downhill in Aspen in 1967,[7][8] and was the 1967 U.S. Champion in giant slalom at Missoula, but broke her leg hours later training for the downhill.[9] Shellworth was the first woman from CU to participate in the Olympics;[10] she competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble and finished 21st in the women's downhill at Chamrousse. Her best finish in a World Cup event was 12th in the downhill at Schruns, Austria, in January 1967.[11]