List of Canadian Sports Personalities - Alpine Skiing

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:

    “The shades of night were falling fast,
    As through an Alpine village passed
    A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
    A banner with the strange device,
    Excelsior!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)