Breezy Johnson Explained

Breezy Johnson
Gender:f
Disciplines:Downhill, Super-G
Birth Name:Breanna Noble Johnson
Birth Date:19 January 1996
Height:5 ft 8 in[1]
Weight:145 lb -->
Wcdebut:December 2015 (age 19)
Olympicteams:1 – (2018)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:2 – (2017, 2021)
Worldsmedals:0
Wcseasons:6 – (201618, 202022)
Wcwins:0
Wcpodiums:7 – (7 DH)
Wcoveralls:0 – (17th in 2021)
Wctitles:0 – (4th in DH, 2021)
Show-Medals:yes
Medaltemplates: -->

Breanna Noble "Breezy" Johnson (born January 19, 1996)[2] is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team.[3] She competes in the speed events of downhill and super-G.

Born in Jackson, Wyoming, Johnson grew up in nearby Victor, Idaho, and made her World Cup debut in December 2015. In her first World Cup season in 2017, she finished eighteenth in the downhill standings. At the World Cup finals in March at Aspen, Johnson crashed in the downhill and suffered a tibial plateau fracture to her left leg.[4] [5] Johnson quickly recovered from this injury and in the 2018 season she finished eleventh in the downhill standings and competed in the Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in the downhill and fourteenth in the super-G.

While training in Chile in September 2018, Johnson partially tore her right anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and missed the After returning to snow, she tore her left posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in her left knee in training in June 2019.

She returned to the World Cup circuit in January 2020 with a 25th in the downhill at Altenmarkt and consecutive top tens at Bansko. Her first World Cup podium came in December 2020 at a downhill in Val d'Isère, France.

She qualified to represent the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics,[6] but was injured and did not compete.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season
AgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom
DownhillCombined
20125 50
2153 36 18
2239 44 11
23Injured in summer: out for entire season
2438 41 20 30
25
2022^26

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Race podiums

Season
DateLocationDisciplinePlace
202118 Dec 2020 Val d'Isère, France 3rd
Downhill 3rd
9 Jan 2021 St. Anton, Austria Downhill 3rd
22 Jan 2021   Crans-Montana, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
20223 Dec 2021 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
Downhill 2nd
18 Dec 2021 Val d'Isère, France Downhill 2nd

World Championship results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
slalom
DownhillCombined
21DNS1
23< -->
25DNF1

Olympic results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
slalom
DownhillCombined
22
26 Injured, did not compete

Personal life

When turned 18, Johnson legally changed her first name from Breanna to Breezy, her long-time nickname which combines her given name and the word freezy.[7] She came out as bisexual in 2022.[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Breezy Johnson. nbcolympics.com. NBCUniversal. 11 February 2018.
  2. Web site: Stefanie Loh. WWU ski racer Breezy Johnson has made it to her first Olympics — but she's just getting started. seattletimes.com. February 9, 2018. Heather and her husband, Greg Johnson, named the baby girl who was born in the ski town of Jackson Hole, Wyo. on Jan. 19, 1996, “Breanna Noble Johnson.”.
  3. Web site: Profile . fis-ski.com. 20 February 2017.
  4. News: Johnson injured in final World Cup downhill . Ski Racing . Hall . Gabbi . March 17, 2017 . March 21, 2017.
  5. Web site: American Breezy Johnson suffers leg fracture in downhill crash . NBC Sports . Zaccardi . Nick . March 17, 2017 . March 21, 2017.
  6. Web site: OlympicTalk. 2022-01-22. Team USA athlete roster for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. 2022-01-23. OlympicTalk NBC Sports. en-US. 2022-01-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124074119/https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/01/21/team-usa-athlete-roster-winter-olympics-2022-beijing/. dead.
  7. https://www.atomic.com/en/athletes/breezy-johnson
  8. Web site: Olympic skier Breezy Johnson comes out as bisexual. Shelby. Weldon. November 9, 2022. Outsports.