Chirine Njeim

{{Short description|Lebanese alpine skier and long-distance runner}}

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| club = Faraya Mzaar

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| birth_place = Beirut, Lebanon

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Chirine Njeim (born October 4, 1984) is a Lebanese alpine skier and long-distance runner.

She represented Lebanon in the 2002, 2006 and the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Njeim started skiing at age 3. At 12, she went to France to train for 2 of years with a personal coach.Joe Battaglia [http://featured.flosports.tv/chirine-njeim-the-unlikeliest-rio-olympian Chirine Njeim - The Unlikeliest Rio Olympian] FloSports {{webarchive|date=4 August 2016|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804052141/http://featured.flosports.tv/chirine-njeim-the-unlikeliest-rio-olympian}}

She then moved to Salt Lake City in the United States in ninth grade, when she was 13, to attend the [http://www.rowmark.org/ Rowmark Ski Academy], former home of U.S. Olympian Picabo Street. She went on to study at, and compete for, the University of Utah.

Njeim married Ronny Kamal, a Lebanese-American management consultant, in 2012 - the couple first met when they were seated together on a flight from Beirut to the United States in 2009. Since marrying the couple have lived in Chicago.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-olympics-lebanon-marathoner-spt-0223-20160222-story.html |title=Chicago marathoner aims to make history as Winter/Summer Olympian|last1=Greenstein |first1=Teddy |date=22 February 2016 |website=chicagotribune.com |access-date=14 August 2016}}

Whilst in Chicago Njeim took up running, completing the 2012 Chicago Marathon in 3 hours 7 minutes and the 2013 edition of the race in 3:05.4. At the 2015 Chicago Marathon she posted a time of 2:46.41, placing her 29th among the women in the field. At the 2016 Houston Marathon, she completed the course in 2:44.14, securing herself a place on the Lebanese team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She finished the 2016 Olympic Marathon in 109th place with a time of 2:51.08.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/sports/olympics/marathon-women-live-results-mare-dibaba.html |title=Rio Olympics: Sumgong Gives Kenya Its First Women's Marathon Gold |author= |date=14 August 2016 |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 August 2016}}

2002 Winter Olympics

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Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom 1st Run \|{{center\|46}} \|{{center\|1:05.54}}
Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom 2nd Run \|{{center\|36}} \|{{center\|1:07.94}}
Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom Final Ranking \|{{center\|36}} \|{{center\|2:13.48}}
Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom 1st Run \|{{center\|52}} \|{{center\|1:27.76}}
Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom 2nd Run \|{{center\|46}} \|{{center\|1:25.66}}
Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom Final Ranking \|{{center\|45}} \|{{center\|2:53.42}}

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! Rank

! Time

Alpine skiing

| Women's slalom 1st Run

|{{center|46}}

|{{center|1:05.54}}

Alpine skiing

| Women's slalom 2nd Run

|{{center|36}}

|{{center|1:07.94}}

Alpine skiing

| Women's slalom Final Ranking

|{{center|36}}

|{{center|2:13.48}}

Alpine skiing

| Women's giant slalom 1st Run

|{{center|52}}

|{{center|1:27.76}}

Alpine skiing

| Women's giant slalom 2nd Run

|{{center|46}}

|{{center|1:25.66}}

Alpine skiing

| Women's giant slalom Final Ranking

|{{center|45}}

|{{center|2:53.42}}

2006 Winter Olympics

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February 15 \| 12:00 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Downhill \|{{center\|34}} \|{{center\|2:02.86}} \|{{center\|+ 6.37}}
February 17 \| 17:00 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Combined Slalom 1st Run \|{{center\|DNF}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}
\| 19:30 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Combined Slalom 2nd Run \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}
\| \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Combined Final Ranking \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}
February 18 \| 14:00 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Combined Downhill \|{{center\|DNF}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}
February 20 \| 12:00 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's Super-G \|{{center\|46}} \|{{center\|1:47.93}} \|{{center\|+ 5.46}}
February 22 \| 14:45 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom 1st Run \|{{center\|43}} \|{{center\|47.24}} \|{{center\|+ 4.86}}
\| 17:45 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom 2nd Run \|{{center\|39}} \|{{center\|51.90}} \|{{center\|+ 5.24}}
\| \| Alpine skiing \| Women's slalom Final Ranking \|{{center\|39}} \|{{center\|1:39.14}} \|{{center\|+ 10.10}}
February 24 \| 9:30 a.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom 1st Run \|{{center\|41}} \|{{center\|1:06.80}} \|{{center\|+ 5.91}}
\| 13:00 p.m. \| Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom 2nd Run \|{{center\|DNF}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}
\| \| Alpine skiing \| Women's giant slalom Final Ranking \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}} \|{{center\|x}}

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! Rank

! Time

! Difference

February 15

| 12:00 p.m.

Chirine Njeim

Biography

2002 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

2016 Summer Olympics

References