Marco Sullivan

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**Marco Sullivan**
Olympics

Country	United States
Disciplines	Giant Slalom, Super G, Downhill, Super Combined
Club	Squaw Valley Ski Team
Skis/boots/bindings	Nordica/Nordica/
Main sponsor	Nordica, Giro, Swix, World Championship Sports Network
Date of birth	27 April 1980
Place of birth	Truckee, California, USA
Height	6 ft/ 1.83 m^[1]
World Cup debut	2001
Website
Teams	1 (2002)
Medals	0 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	2
Medals	0 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	6
Wins	1
Podiums	2
Overall titles	0
Discipline titles	0

Marco Sullivan (born 27 April 1980 in Truckee, California^[2] ) is an alpine skier from the United States. He appeared in the 2006 Winter Olympics, and has won one World Cup race, on January 26 2008 in Chamonix, France.

1 Olympics
- 1.1 2002
2 World Championships
3 World Cup
4 US Ski Championships
5 External Links
6 References

[edit] Olympics

[edit] 2002

Finished 9th in the Downhill
Did Not Finish in the Super-G

[edit] World Championships

Sullivan's first raced in the World Championships in 2003, where he finished 17th and 24th in the Super G and Downhill races respectively. ^[2]

[edit] World Cup

Since making his World Cup in December 2001, Sullivan has won one race, on January 26, 2008 in a Downhill race in Chamonix in France^[2]. He missed two seasons from 2004 and 2005 due to a knee injury^[3]

Sullivan, 27 and in his ninth season on the U.S. Ski Team, got his first World Cup top-3 Nov. 24 when he was second on a good-for-gliders course at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. He won the renowned Kandahar downhill in Chamonix in 2:00.11, ahead of Swiss skier Didier Cuche.^[4]

[edit] US Ski Championships

Sullivan was the Downhill champion at the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2007 in the Alyeska Resort in Alaska. In this race he beat second-place Erik Fisher by more than a second.^[5]