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| Name: |
Chris Francis |
| Birth Date: |
August 11th, 1987 |
| Height / Weight: |
1.58 m / 45 kg |
| Hometown: |
Park City, UT |
Facts & Figures
... private life:
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was born in Wyoming but grew up in Park City with his mother
Duane, who's a doctor, and his dad, a ski guard |
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his bigger brother Nick, 20, is not an active ski jumper |
... ski jumping:
| started at 4 |
| personal record: 140m in Kuusamo/FIN |
| January 2002: Junior Worlds in Schonach/GER, 7th and 42nd |
| 2002: a broken collar bone keeps him from training and jumping for
a few weeks |
| Summer 2002: 10th COC Calgary/CAN |
| February 2003: 57th at the JWC in Solleftea/SWE |
| Summer 2003: places 10th and 14th in a european Alpen Cup event,
trains and jumps with Kari Yliantila and the national team oversea |
| September 2003: 1st and 4th in a Super Tour event at Mount Itasca,
MN |
| February 2004: Junior Worlds in Stryn/NOR, Chris places 29th |
| Summer 2004: he's being nominated for the Development Team with 3
other junior athletes |
| December 2004: he travels to Finland for COC events
in Rovaniemi and Lahti, but is disappointed with his jumping. He returns from
Europe as 104th in the overall COC standings. |
Chris about . . .
| the Junior World Championships 2002:
"I liked the Juniors, but it was not
so good conditions... it will be a much better result next year when I am
stronger." |
| himself (in 2001): "I am very young, I have many years ahead to be the
best!" |
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