Victoria Pendergast

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Victoria Pendergast
Giant Slalom
Slalom

Victoria "Tori" Pendergast (born 25 January 1991) is an Australian

Thredbo
.

Personal

Victoria "Tori" Pendergast was born in

University of Technology, Sydney.[1][2] In early 2014, she was working as a telemarketer.[1] She is an F58 classified shot put competitor who finished 8th in the Girls Shot Put Disability Open at the 2004 Schools Athletics Championships.[3]

Skiing

Victoria Pendergast competing in the Super G during the second day of the 2012 IPC Nor Am Cup at Copper Mountain

Pendergast is an LW12.1 classified skier,[4] the classification for athletes "with good sitting balance... and double above knee limb loss."[5] She was spotted on the slopes by officials from Disabled Winter Sports Australia during a family ski holiday.[1] This led to her participation in Athlete Development Programs run by Disabled Winter Sports Australia.[2] Born missing the lower part of her spine, she is suited to sit-skiing and embraced hurtling down a mountain at 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) in a custom built sled.[6] She made her international debut at the New Zealand Winter Games in 2010.[1]

During the North American 2010/2011 skiing season, Pendergast was based in Avon, Colorado, and competed in eight races, where she earned four bronze medals and a silver medal, and finished the season ranked 66th.[7] That season, she also participated in a 2-month long national development team training camp in Colorado.[2] As a member of Australia's development team, she competed at a competition in December 2012 at Copper Mountain,[8] and at the 2012 Japan Para Alpine Ski Championships in the women's sitting super-G event.[4][9]

Pendergast won a silver and bronze medal in the

Thredbo.[6] By February 2014, she was ranked 12th in the world in downhill and giant slalom, and 13th in slalom and super-G.[5]

At the

sit skier at the Winter Paralympics.[10] She competed in two events, finishing seventh in the women's slalom sit-ski and tenth in the women's giant slalom sit-ski.[11]

Pendergast competed in three Women's Sitting events at the 2015

Panorama, Canada. She finished sixth in the Slalom but did not finish the Super-G and Giant Slalom.[12]

At the 2018 Winter Paralympics, her second Games, she finished fourth in the Women's Downhill Sitting and eighth in the Women's Giant Slalom.[13][14]

At the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, she competed in two events but failed to finish.[15]

She announced her retirement from alpine skiing in September 2020.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Victoria Pendergast". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Victoria Pendergast" (PDF). Sydney, Australia: University of Technology, Sydney. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  3. Daily Telegraph
    . p. 38.
  4. ^ a b "2012 Japan Para Alpine Ski Championships" (PDF). Japan: Japan Paralympics. 22 March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  5. ^
    Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 April 2014.[permanent dead link
    ]
  6. ^ a b Lulham, Amanda (15 November 2013). "Paralympic ski newcomer Tori Pendergast setting her sights on winning a medal at Sochi". Courier Mail. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  7. ^ "The Next Generation of Ski & Snowboarding Racing!". Ski Racing : Nastar.com. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Winning start to winter season". New South Wales, Australia: APC Corporate. 16 December 2011. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  9. ^ "IPC Celebrates Women in Alpine Skiing". International Paralympic Committee. 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Australia names Winter Paralympics team for Sochi including 14-year-old Para-snowboarder Ben Tudhope". ABC News. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  11. ^ "Sochi 2014 Latest Results". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  12. ^ "Victoria Pendergast". International Paralympic Committee Athlete Profiles. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  13. ^ "Victoria Pendergast". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  14. ^ "Australian Paralympic Winter Team for PyeongChang 2018 announced". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  15. ^ "Tori Pendergast Results 2019 World Para Skiing World Championships". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  16. ^ Houston, Michael (6 September 2020). "Dual Para-athlete Pendergast announces retirement from skiing". Inside the Games. Retrieved 7 September 2020.

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