Alpine Skiing
- Jean-Luc Brassard, freestyle ski – moguls, Olympic Gold Medal – 1994
- The Crazy Canucks, a group of downhill racers who were extraordinarily successful in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
- Dave Irwin
- Dave Murray
- Steve Podborski, Canada's only overall World Cup winner
- Ken Read, the first Canadian male to win on the World Cup circuit
- Todd Brooker
- Nancy Greene, alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1968
- Ann Heggtveit, world and 1960 Winter Olympics ski champion
- Kerrin Lee-Gartner, alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1992
- Kathy Kreiner, alpine skiing – giant slalom,Olympic Gold Medal – 1976
- Gerry Sorensen, alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1982
- Melanie Turgeon, alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1993
- Lucille Wheeler, alpine world ski champion
- Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, alpine ski champions of the 1940s and 1950s
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Famous quotes containing the word alpine:
“I held a bayonet
that was for the earth of your stomach.
The belly button singing its puzzle.
The intestines winding like the alpine roads.
It was made to enter you
as you have entered me....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)