Chirine njeim biography


Chirine njeim biography

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    Chirine Njeim

    Lebanese alpine skier and long-distance runner

    Chirine Njeim (born October 4, 1984) is a Lebanesealpine skier and long-distance runner.

    She represented Lebanon in the 2002, 2006 and the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    Biography

    Njeim started skiing at age 3.

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    At 12, she went to France to train for 2 of years with a personal coach.[2]

    She then moved to Salt Lake City in the United States in ninth grade, when she was 13, to attend the Rowmark Ski Academy, former home of U.S.

    Olympian Picabo Street. She went on to study at, and compete for, the University of Utah.[3]

    Njeim married Ronny Kamal, a Lebanese-American management consultant, in 2012 - the couple first met when they were seated together on a flight from Beirut to the United States in 2009.

    Since marrying the couple have lived in Chicago.[3]

    Whilst in Chicago Njeim took up running, completing the 2012 Chicago Marathon in 3 hours 7 minutes and the 20