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Wills, K.

  • CA-WK001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1993

K. Wills is a Canadian skier who served as a forerunner at the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill at Whistler Mountain.

Thorsen, C.

  • CA-TC001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1993

C. Thorsen is a Canadian skier who served as a forerunner during the 1993 Labatt Blue World Men's Downhill at Whistler Mountain.

Taylor, B.

  • CA-TB001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1993

B. Taylor is a Canadian skier who served as a forerunner during the 1993 Labatt Blue World Men's Downhill at Whistler Mountain.

Turgeon, Mélanie

  • CA-QC-TM001
  • Personne
  • b. October 21, 1976

Mélanie Turgeon is a retired Canadian skier born in Alma, Quebec. Originally a member of the Mont Ste. Anne Ski Club, she joined the Canadian National Ski Team in 1992 at the young age of 16. Two years later she won 5 medals, including 2 gold, at the 1994 World Junior Championships. Throughout her career Turgeon had a total of 41 Top Ten finishes, won 8 world-class medals, and competed in three Olympic Games (1994, 1998, and 2002). She enjoyed her greatest success in the 1999-2003 seasons, winning the Super-G World Cup event in 2000 at Innsbruck, Austria, the downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2003 at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and second place in the Super-G and third in the downhill in 2001 at Haus im Ennstal, Austria. These latter victories earned her the distinction of being the first Canadian to stand on the World Cup podium twice in one day. Her highest result in the Olympics was 8th place in the downhill at Salt Lake City, 2002.

Turgeon sustained a back injury that forced her to sit out of the 2003-2004 season. After a brief return to skiing in 2004, she retired from the sport in October 2005. During her career Turgeon had had a partnership with RONA, and this continued after her retirement as she was named RONA Ambassador for its Olympic program (it was an Official National Partner of VANOC and a Canadian Team Partner for the 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 Olympics).

Paul, M.

  • CA-PM001
  • Personne
  • fl. 1993

M. Paul is a Canadian skier who served as a forerunner at the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill at Whistler Mountain.

Podborski, Steve

  • CA-ON-PS001
  • Personne
  • b. July 25, 1957

Steven 'Steve' Gregory Podborski is a former downhill ski racer and member of the 'Crazy Canucks.' Born in Toronto, Ontario, Podborski started skiing at two-and-a-half years old at Craigleith Ski Club. He joined the Canadian alpine ski team in 1973 and made his World Cup debut the following year at the age of 17, scoring two top ten finishes in his first season. He made his Olympic debut at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, winning the bronze medal at the downhill; he had planned to debut at the previous Games but been forced to cancel due to a knee injury. His third-place win at the Games made him the only Crazy Canuck ever to win an Olympic medal, as well as the first North American man to do so in the downhill. In 1982, he became the first North American to win the World Cup season title in downhill skiing. In total, he won 8 World Cup downhill races (including the famously difficult Hahenkamm race, twice) and finished within the top 10 in 34 more. He retired after the 1984 season.

After retiring, Podborski continued to contribute to the sports world. He covered snowboarding for Olympics on CBS in 1998, cycling and Tae Kwon Do for NBC in 2000, and freestyle skiing for NBC in 2002 and 2006, and commented on three Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City 2002, Torino 2006, Whistler/Vancouver 2010). He was on the bid committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics, responsible for international relations. He was named Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic Team for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi (2014). He worked for Telus from 2003 to 2017, achieving the position of National Director, Community Sports. In June 2017, he became President and CEO of Parachute, an organization focusing on injury prevention in sports.

Podborski has received many honours, including the Order of Canada in 1982, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1985, the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1986, the Canadian Sport Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Ontario Sport Hall of Fame in 1987.

Oldfield, Graydon

  • CA-ON-OG001
  • Personne
  • b. 1973

Graydon Oldfield is a former member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team who competed in the Alpine World Cup Ski Tour and the 1993 Labatt Blue Downhill at Whistler Mountain. He was crowned Canadian Champion in 1997 and received an Alumni of the Year Award in 2004. Oldfield retired from skiing in 1999 and joined ScotiaMcLeod, for which he is currently Senior Wealth Advisor and Associate Director of Wealth Management. He is also president of the Barrie Cycling Club, former Chair of Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka, and a mentor to business students at Georgian College. He lives in Barrie, Ontario.

Mealey, John

  • CA-ON-MJ001
  • Personne
  • b. 1968

John Mealey is a former member of the Canadian National Alpine Ski Team. Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, he started skiing at the age of two and later joined the Soo Ski Runners team, which was coached by his father. Mealey won the slalom race at the 1983 Canadian Juvenile Ski Championships. He went on to have a number of podium finishes in the Europa Cup and Nor-Am Cup Races in the late 1980s and early 1990s and sixteen Top 20 finishes in World Cup races between 1990 and 1994. Among the races he competed in were the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill and Super G at Whistler Mountain. He won the title of Canadian Downhill Champion at Lake Louise in 1994. He has also participated three times in the "24 hours of Aspen" race, an international endurance contest in which racers raise money for charity. In 2004 he was inducted into the Sault Ste. Marie Sports Hall of Fame. As of that same year, he was the chairman of Alpine Ontario.

Irwin, Dave

  • CA-ON-ID001
  • Personne
  • July 12, 1954 -

Dave Irwin is a Canadian former alpine ski racer and member of the "Crazy Canucks", a group of Canadian downhill racers who rose to prominence on the World Cup circuit in the late 1970s. He was born on July 12, 1954 in Thunder Bay, ON to former alpine ski racer Bill Irwin. He learned to ski at the age of 3 at his father's ski resort, Loch Lomond Ski Area, and was chosen for the Canadian National Ski Team at 17. Although his original area of expertise was the slalom - he won the 1972 Can-Am Slalom title, earning him that year's NOVA Cup as Canada's most improved skier - Irwin later switched to downhill. His first World Cup appearance was at Schladming, Austria in 1973; he came in 14th. Two years later, again at Schladming, he became the second Canadian male to win a World Cup downhill event. Other first-place wins for Irwin included the 1979 Europa Cup downhill event in Verbier, Switzerland and the 1980 US National Championships. He represented Canada in two Winter Olympics - Innsbruck 1976, in which he finished 8th, and Lake Placid 1980, in which he finished 11th. He won bronze at the 1982 World Cup Downhill in Whistler, retiring following month. Overall, he finished in the Top 15 in seventeen different races over his career. Irwin sustained many injuries during his career, the first being a concussion which sent him to the hospital for five days before the 1976 Olympics. Another severe concussion kept him out of the competition for almost two years prior to the 1980 Olympics. He retired from active competition in 1981, but continued to ski for the next two decades. After his retirement, he sustained a traumatic brain injury while training for an Export A Skier-Cross event in 2001. This put him in a coma for three days and resulted in severe memory loss. Irwin and his fiancee, Lynne Harrison, later created the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury. This organization was dissolved in 2016. Irwin received a Sport Excellence Award from the Government of Canada at the 1982 Tribute of Champions, and a John Semmelink Memorial Award from the Canadian Ski and Snowboard Association the same year. He was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2010, he helped carry the Olympic torch as it made its way to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. He currently lives in Canmore, Alberta.

Burke, Sarah

  • CA-ON-BS001
  • Personne
  • September 3, 1982 - January 19, 2012

Sarah Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier known for pioneering the superpipe event. Born in Barrie, Ontario, she attended ski camps as a teenager in Whistler, at which she met her future husband Rory Bushfield (m. 2010). She won first place in the half-pipe event at the 2001 US Freeskiing Open, being one of only two women to compete. After this, she lobbied ESPN to include a female division in the Winter X Games; this was granted in 2005, and Burke went on to win five gold and one silver medal in this competition. She also won the 2005 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. Burke then lobbied the International Olympic Committee to add the superpipe to the 2014 Winter Olympics, at which she planned to compete. Tragically, she was never able to realize this dream, dying at the age of 29 in a training accident in Utah.

Burke accumulated many honors, both in her lifetime and posthumously. She was the first woman to ever land a jump with a 1080-degree rotation during a competition. She won the ESPN 2001 Award for Female Skier of the Year and the ESPY 2007 Best Female Action Sports Athlete Award. She also featured in many skiing films. After her death, Burke was inducted to the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (2012), Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (2014), and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (2016).

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