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, 2024 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.