Dr. Sarah Billmeier, M.D.
Competition | 2008
Sarah Billmeier learned to meet challenges head on at a very young age. At 5 years old, a diagnosis of bone cancer required her left leg to be amputated above the knee. Growing up in Maine with three brothers, she began skiing at the age of 8 and started a competitive ski career at age 10. And at the age of 14, Sarah qualified for her first Paralympic competition by making the U.S. Disabled Alpine Ski Team, making her the youngest member of Team USA.
Sarah’s competitive career results are very impressive. In the 1992 Winter Paralympic Games in Albertville, France, she won two gold medals and a silver. In 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway, Sarah won another two gold medals and a silver. In Nagano, Japan in 1998, she won two golds, one silver and one bronze medal. In her final Paralympic competition in 2002 in Salt Lake City, she won one gold and two silvers. In addition to her Paralympic resume, Sarah garnered six world championship alpine titles, cementing her legacy as one of the most dominant adaptive alpine skiers of her generation.
Following her competitive career and completion of her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth University, Sarah entered Harvard Medical School where she earned her medical degree. Sarah completed her surgical residency at Brigham & Women’s in Boston and today she is a surgeon at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, specializing in minimally invasive surgery
