A trio of gold medal-winning women skiers
Broadcast Date: Feb. 12, 1988
In 1988, Anne Heggtviet, Nancy Greene-Raine and Kathy Kreiner stand alone as the only women in Canadian history to have won a gold medal in alpine skiing at the Olympics. On the eve of the Games in Calgary, they come together to be interviewed on CBC Radio's Morningside. As we hear in this interview, host Peter Gzowski wants to know where they keep their gold medals. Greene-Raine keeps hers on display in the lobby of the hotel she owns. Heggtveit thinks hers is on "the back of a shelf some place". And Kreiner safeguards hers in a safe deposit box.A trio of gold medal-winning women skiers
• The three women interviewed in this Morningside item won their gold medals eight years apart. Heggtviet was first in 1960, winning the slalom event in Squaw Valley, Cal. Greene-Raine (just Greene at the time) earned gold in giant slalom and a silver in slalom at the Grenoble Games in 1968. Kreiner brought home gold in giant slalom from the 1976 Games in Innsbruck.
• Kreiner calls her 1976 Olympic victory "the culmination of a dream come true." She says her dream started when she was 10 years old. "My Dad, who was the doctor for the Canadian team, came home from the '68 Olympics with stories of Nancy winning." Greene-Raine, in turn, admired Heggtveit. "When I was 16 I made the Olympic team as a real rookie and I roomed with Anne. And I watched all her preparations and I was sort of in awe of her," she says. Heggtveit remembers that she looked up to Lucille Wheeler. Wheeler was a world champion skier who won a bronze medal at the 1956 Olympics.
A trio of gold medal-winning women skiers
Medium: Radio
Program: Morningside
Broadcast Date: Feb. 12, 1988
Guest(s): Nancy Greene, Anne Heggtveit, Kathy Kreiner
Host: Peter Gzowski
Duration: 18:42
Last updated:
Nov. 27, 2009
A trio of gold medal-winning women skiers.
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