Canty skier makes top 100 in world

Press, 24 February 1986, Page 24

Canty skier makes top 100 in world

Kate Rattray, the national women’s ski-ing champion, is now ranked in the top 100 for the world in the Super-G discipline. The Canterbury skier, aged 23, achieved that breakthrough after an excellent result in a World Cup race at Megeve, France. Competing in the Super-G event, a cross between giant, slalom and downhill, Rattray was placed twenty-seventh out of 73, thereby reducing her F.I.S. (International Ski Federation) seeding points. Rattray, who has been training with the British women’s team, is about to

leave Europe for the climes of the United States and Canada where she will contest the Nor-Am series. She is not expected back in New Zealand until April.

Five other members of the Canterbury United Building Society ski team, Adele Coberger, Annelise Coberger, Bergendy Cooke, Anna Keeling and Leslie Quirke, arrived back in Christchurch on Friday after more than two months training and racing in the United States.

Adele Coberger, a member of the New Zealand B team, was based in Winter Park, Colorado, along with Quirke,

Keeling and Cooke. They were Under the guidance of Lester Keller, the Canterbury Ski Association’s head coach.

Coberger, aged 16, was happy with her performance

In races, all of which were in Colorado apart from a brief trip to Utah for the F.I.S. series. Her best result was a thirteenth place in an F.I.S. slalom at Monarch, Colorado. Her sister, Annelise, aged 14, was based at another Colorado ski resort, Steamboat, together with another Canterbury team member, Juliet Satterthwaite, who is

staying on until April. Juliet Johnston, based at Winter Park, is also staying longer. Annelise, too, was pleased with her results, though ad-

mitting to falling “quite a lot.”

Among her best race results were a third place in an F.I.S. giant slalom qualifying race. Unfortunately she was unable to race in F.I.S. events because she was not 15 years of age. Competing with other skiers in her J2 (14 and 15 years) age group she had first and third placings during the development series at

Steamboat. Satterthwaite showed good form in F.I.S. races and her best placings included a ninth in a giant slalom in the Western regional series in Utah and a twelfth placing in another giant slalom at Monarch, Colorado.

Four top Canterbury men have been based in Yugoslavia over the northern winter. They are Graeme Goodwin, a member of the New Zealand A team, Nils Coberger, Stefan Crawford, and lan McLean. Coberger has reduced his F.I.S. points for the giant slalom to between 80 and 81.