About: Gretchen Bleiler   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Gretchen aspired to compete in the Olympic Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since, became professional in 1996 and is currently recognized as a role model and pioneer in the sport. Among her accomplishments, Gretchen jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder. In the pre Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a two time X Games gold medalist.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Gretchen Bleiler
rdfs:comment
  • Gretchen aspired to compete in the Olympic Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since, became professional in 1996 and is currently recognized as a role model and pioneer in the sport. Among her accomplishments, Gretchen jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder. In the pre Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a two time X Games gold medalist.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:snow/proper...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • Gretchen aspired to compete in the Olympic Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since, became professional in 1996 and is currently recognized as a role model and pioneer in the sport. Among her accomplishments, Gretchen jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder. In the pre Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a two time X Games gold medalist. In 2003, she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion, and a Triple Crown of Snowboarding champion. She posed for the February 2004 issue of FHM, along with fellow snowboarder Tara Dakides and sportscaster Jamie Little. Bleiler, who barely missed qualifying for the 2002 Winter Olympics due to a tiebreaker, won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. In the 2006-07 season Bleiler competes in halfpipe contests with the US Snowboarding team, but also plans to ride in slopestyle contests and spend more time filming for snowboard videos. When she is not competing, Gretchen enjoys surfing, mountain biking, interior design and fashion.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software