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Tim Retchford

Australian Sprint Team

Date of Birth:  March 10th 1975
Ski Club: Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club, Australia
Ski Team: Team Lake Mountain
Coach:  Self-coached
Years Started Skiing: 1979
Home Town: Kew, Victoria
Home/Favourite Resort:  Australia's Premier Resort - Lake Mountain!
Height:  180cm
Weight: 73kg
Occupation: Physiotherapist


 

Ultimate Training session: Anything that starts and finishes with a java at a decent café.

Loves: The German Women's ski team (although Claudia K scares me a bit!), crushing Mocky in training, singing in the shower, skiing before work at Lake Mountain.

Hates: International roast, putting on a heart rate monitor strap on a cold morning, those bugs that stick to the bumper of your car…they are really hard to get off, sitting next to a narcoleptic fatty on a ling haul flight.

Other interests: Break dancing, rollerskating, hacky sack, trash talking Nick Grimmer, growing carnations.

Favourite meal: Does a short macchiato with 2 sugars constitute a meal?

Favourite movie: Life is Beautiful closely followed by Breakdance II - Electric Boogaloo

Favourite TV show: Fat Pizza (on its better days).

Favourite CD(s): Anything in my collection that doesn't skip…Jurassic 5, Natalie Merchant, The Whitlams.

Last book read: Mobilisation of the Nervous System. A thriller by David S Butler; I won't be nasty and give the ending away!

Who would you most like to go skiing with? Evi Sachenbacher, purely to practice my German!

What is your ultimate dream in XC-skiing? To be honest I am stoked to be were I am, however if I had to dream a bit I would say the next Olympics…after that I suppose there are master's games!


Competitive History: 

Year

Competition

Distance/Style

Place

2003

Australian Championships

Sprint - Final

3rd

2003

Victorian Championships

Sprint - Qualifying

=1st

2003

Victorian Championships

Sprint - Final

7th

2003

Victorian Championships

Sprint - Qualifying

3rd

2002

Australian Championships

Sprint - Final

10th

2002

Australian Championships

Sprint - Qualifying

13th

2002

Victorian Championships

Sprint - Final

4th

2002

Victorian Championships

Sprint - Qualifying

4th


Equipment:

Skis - Fischer
Poles -
Boots -
Bindings -

Personal Sponsors:  Lake Mountain Resort, Fischer (Robert Green Sales), Rudy Project

 

Updated October 2003


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