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Raised in Rutland, Vermontt, Andrea skied competitively from 1942-1956. She won the Olympic Tryout Slalom at the age of 15 and was the youngest winner of the Harriman Cup in downhill, slalom and combined events in 1950, at age 18. During the 1950-51 season, she entered sixteen international races in eight weeks, placing first in ten races and second in four.
Andrea was a member of the U.S. Olympic Alpine Team in 1948, 1952, and 1956--the only American alpine skier to compete in three Olympics and one of only four women in the world to do so. She was Captain of the women's team in 1952, where she won two Olympic Gold Medals in slalom and giant slalom. Andrea was the only American skier to ever win two Gold Medals in a single Olympics, and was the only woman in the world to do so until the record was matched in 1972.
"You can be a world class athlete only so many years. The grounding you get from sport gives you the right attitude, knowing there is another distance out there: the rest of your life."
In 1950, she was awarded the "American Ski Trophy" for making the greatest contribution to the sport of skiing and Time Magazine acknowledged her contribution to her sport by putting her on the cover of their January 21st issue.
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