Alpine Skiing

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Jack Crawford wins his first career World Cup men’s downhill medal, winning bronze in Beaver Creek, Alberta. He finished in a time of 1:42.88. Norway’s Alexsander Aamodt Kilde won his second downhill race this season in a cumulative time of 1:42.09 seconds, Switzerland’s silver medalist Marco Odermatt was just 0.06 seconds behind. 

Edited December 3, 2022 by Josh

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Valerie Grenier wins giant slalom gold in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Her first career World Cup medal. She finished in a combined two run time of 1:55.01, snapping Mikaela Shiffrins five race win streak (She finished 6th). Italian Martina Bassino (1:55.38) won the silver medal, while Pétra Vlohova (1:55.41) won the bronze medal to complete the podium. 

 

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Cameron Alexander won bronze at the Bormio men’s downhill WC! First alpine skiing podium of the season for Canada, we’ve had various top 10 finishes though. 

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Valerie Grenier goes back-to-back in women’s giant slalom at the Kranjska Gora WC! 4th after her first run, and the fastest second run, to record her second career WC win!

Edited January 6 by Josh

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Valerie Grenier with her second WC podium of the season as she wins bronze in women’s downhill at the Cortina D’Ampezzo WC. A lot of the top alpine skiers are either injured and did not compete, or DNFd, so not as good of a result as the medal suggests. I’ll take it though. 

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Cameron Alexander is back on the WC podium, winning men’s downhill bronze in Kvitfjell!

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On 2/17/2024 at 8:27 AM, Josh said:

Cameron Alexander is back on the WC podium, winning men’s downhill bronze in Kvitfjell!

Jeffrey Read wins silver in men’s super-G also in Kvitfjell! Cameron Alexander with a solid 5th place finish as well. Brilliant week for our alpine skiers. 

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Alpine team for 2024-2025 named: https://alpinecanada.org/news/athletes-nominated-to-2024-25-canadian-ski-team

 

(Included is ski cross, which falls under alpine for Canada)

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Good showing from our women's technical team this weekend. Valerie Grenier comes back with a ninth place finish in the Giant Slalom and World Champion Laurence St-Germain finished 7th in today's slalom in Killington Vermont.