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Allison Baver Personal information Full name Allison Baver Nationality American Born August 11, 1980
Reading, PennsylvaniaResidence Salt Lake City, Utah Height 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) Weight 58 kg (130 lb; 9.1 st) Website Official Site Sport Country United States of America Sport Speed skating <div id="NavFrame1" class="NavFrame" style="border: none; padding: 0;"> Medal record[hide]Women's short track speed skating Competitor for the United States Olympic Games Bronze 2010 Vancouver 3000 m relay Allison Baver (born August 11, 1980 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American short track speed skater.
Baver trains with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt
Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall
in the World Rankings. Baver was a marketing and management major at Pennsylvania State University (2003) and an MBA at the New York Institute of Technology.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[1]At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, Baver finished seventh in the Women's 500 m competition, following a third place finish in Semifinal A and a collision with the Czech Republic's Kateřina Novotná in Final B, which took her out of the race for fifth place.
On February 25, 2007, Baver won her first U.S. National Championship.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[2]
On February 8, 2009, Baver collided with teammate Katherine Reutter on the third lap of the 1500m race in Sofia, Bulgaria and fractured her leg in multiple places.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[3]
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, in Vancouver, Baver competed in three events. In the 1500 m, Baver did not make it past the semifinals.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[4] In the 1000 m, Baver was disqualified in the heats.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[5]
In the 3000 m relay, Baver's U.S. team finished fourth but were awarded
the bronze medal after one of the teams was disqualified for an
infraction.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[6]<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[7]In October 2010, Baver was the Grand Marshal for the 2010 Pennsylvania State University Homecoming celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[8]
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