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Jarvis, Beau

  • CA-BC-JB005
  • Persona
  • 1974-

Beau Jarvis is a Canadian former alpine ski racer and owner of Wesgroup Properties in Vancouver. He was born in 1974 and grew up in Whistler. As a kid, he would spend winters skiing and summers skateboarding. He competed in alpine skiing in the mid to late 1990s. After retiring from ski racing, he completed a Commerce degree at Royal Roads University near Victoria, BC. From 2001 to 2005, he worked for Remax Sea to Sky Real Estate in Whistler. In 2005, he began working at Omni in Vancouver in acquisitions and development until he was promoted to vice president in 2007. He worked in this position until 2014, when he became senior vice president of development for Wesgroup Properties. In 2017, he was promoted to executive vice president, and in 2019, he became president of Wesgroup Properties. He is the man behind the Whistler community philanthropy project Old School Initiative, which helps sponsor and provide support to local athletes and sports groups that need financial help to succeed in their respective sports.

Furuseth, Ole Christian

  • NO-FOC001
  • Persona
  • January 7, 1967 -

Ole Christian Furuseth is a retired Norwegian alpine skier who was active between 1985 and 2002. Born in Oslo, Norway, he represented the skiing club Ullensaker SK. His first international competition was the 1985 Junior World Championships, in which he finished eleventh in downhill and nineteenth in giant slalom. He made his World Cup debut in December 1986, finishing tenth in the slalom race in Madonna di Campiglio. He did not compete in any World Cup races in the 1987 calendar year, but returned in the late 1987/1988 season with a sixth and fifteenth place in Bad Kleinkirchheim and Oppdal, respectively, In the 1988–89 season Furuseth performed consistently well. He opened with a ninth place in Sestriere in December, then improved gradually until reaching the podium for the first time, with a second place from Adelboden in January. He also won the slalom run in the Alpine Combined Event at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships. In Furano, he finished second in the giant slalom, winning the slalom race two days later. One week later in Shigakogen, he won the giant slalom race and finished second in the slalom. As a result, he won the Giant Slalom Cup that year, though jointly with Pirmin Zurbriggen. In the Slalom Cup he finished third, and in the overall standings he finished fourth. He also competed at the 1989 World Championships, placing eighth in the giant slalom and sixth in the slalom. He was given the Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year award of 1989. The 1989/1990 season started equally well, with two-second places in August in Thredbo. He then won a giant slalom competition in Park City in November. Although that would be his only victory that season, he became runner-up in three further races, including the super-G race in January in Les Menuires. He again won the Giant Slalom Cup, finished second in the overall standings and second in the Slalom Cup. In the 1990/1991 season, he won competitions in Madonna di Campiglio and Kranjska Gora in December, and recorded three-second places, only one of them in giant slalom. Again he finished second in the Slalom Cup. At the 1991 World Championships, he won the bronze medal in slalom and placed fourth in both giant slalom and super-G. The 1991/1992 season saw him win a giant slalom race in Adelboden in January, second in a combined race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen the week before, third in a slalom race in Sestriere in December. At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he finished fifth in the giant slalom, fourth in the super-G, and seventh in the combined race. The 1992/93 season saw him place twice among the top ten towards the end of the season. At the 1993 World Championships, he finished fourteenth in slalom and tenth in giant slalom. In the 1993/1994 World Cup circuit, he placed mostly in the 20th–30th range, with results as bad as a 61st place in Val d'Isère in December. However, he still earned a third place in Sestriere and a second place in Kranjska Gora in January. In the 1994/1995 season, he achieved two third places in slalom in Kitzbühel in January and Furano in February; he then won his last race for the season, in Bormio in March. In the 1995/1996 World Cup he was disqualified in most of his races, failing to reach the podium. He participated in the 1996 World Championships, postponed from 1995, and finished seventh in the slalom race. He performed slightly better in 1996/1997, with one third place in slalom in Shigakogen in March and a fourth place at the 1997 World Championships as highlights. From the 1997/1998 season, Furuseth competed exclusively in slalom. He opened with a thirteenth place in Park City in November, but improved gradually until reaching third in Kitzbühel in January. Then, in February he won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, only defeated by fellow countryman Hans Petter Buraas. A World Cup victory in Yongpyong in March rounded off a successful season. A mediocre 1998/1999 season followed, but in 1999/2000 he fully reinvigorated his career, achieving two fourth places, one third places, three second places and one victory in the World Cup. The victory was his last race of the season, in Bormio in March. He came out of that season with a second place in the Slalom Cup. In the 2000/2001 season, he achieved a fifth place in Åre in February as his best World Cup result; he also he finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. Following the 2001/2002 season, where he only reached the top ten once during the season in the 2002 Winter Olympics, Furuseth retired from alpine ski racing. Throughout his career Furuseth won 6 World Cup victories in slalom and 3 in giant slalom, as well as the silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. Since retiring he has worked in construction and as a real estate developer at the Kvitfjell Ski Resort. Furuseth is married, and resides in Oslo. His hobbies include boat trips and surfing.

Sulliger, Marcel

  • CH-SM001
  • Persona
  • b. July 17, 1967

Marcel Sulliger is a retired Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill and Super G at Whistler Mountain.

Duvillard, Adrien

  • FR-DA001
  • Persona
  • February 8, 1969 -

Adrien Duvillard is a retired French alpine skier who competed in the 1992 and 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill and Super G at Whistler Mountain.

Wirth, Patrick

  • AT-WP002
  • Persona
  • b. September 17, 1971

Patrick Wirth is a retired Austrian alpine skier who competed in the 1993 Labatt Blue Men's Downhill and Super G at Whistler Mountain.

Mealey, John

  • CA-ON-MJ001
  • Persona
  • 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.

Thorsen, C.

  • CA-TC001
  • Persona
  • 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.

Brownlie, Georgina

  • CA-BC-BG010
  • Persona
  • fl. 1991-1992

Georgina Brownlie is a former athlete and teacher at Pemberton High School. She was a member of the Blackcomb One team at the 4th Annual Westcoast Ski Area Tournament, August 1991, at which she was named both the Team Female MVP and the Tourny Female MVP. She also played fastball for the Tapley's K team.

She is married to Dave Brownlie, former President and COO & CEO of Whistler-Blackcomb.

Askevold, George

  • US-AG001
  • Persona
  • fl. 1970s

American ski instructor and champion freestyle skier who won many major hot dog competitions in both the Eastern and Western US, including the 1973 Eastern Freestyle Championships. Askevold coached at the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp in the 1970s.

Murray, Dave

  • CA-BC-MD003
  • Persona
  • September 9, 1953 - October 23, 1990

David 'Dave' Murray was a Canadian alpine ski racer, a member of the Crazy Canucks, and a pivotal figure in Whistler's ski history. Born in Vancouver, Murray first took up ski racing at age 15 and joined the Canadian National Ski Team at 21 in 1974. He was one of the three founding members of the Crazy Canucks (along with fellow ski racers 'Jungle' Jim Hunter and Dave Irwin) and reportedly acted as the moderator and "conscience" of the group, according to teammate Steve Podborski. Murray participated in two Olympic Games - at Innsbruck in 1976 and Lake Placid in 1980, at which he finished tenth in the downhill - and three FIS World Championships (1974, 1978, and 1982). He competed on the FIS World Circuit for six years. Although Murray never won a World Cup event, he finished in the top ten 15 times, four of these being in his best season (1975/76). He was ranked first place overall in the 1979 Shell Cup Canadian National Championships, and won second place in the 1977 Shell Cup Giant Slalom, the 1978 FIS World Cup Downhills at Les Houches and Schladming, and the 1979 and 1981 Canadian National Championships Downhill. He was named BC Athlete of the Year in 1979.

Following the 1981/82 season, Murray retired from competitive skiing and returned to British Columbia. He became the director of skiing at Whistler-Blackcomb, founding the world-renowned Dave Murray Ski School in 1988. He headed the newly-christened Dave Murray Summer Ski Camps (replacing the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camps) from 1984 until his death in 1990, coaching children and youth aged 10-18 on Whistler Glacier. He also headed Masters camps for adults. In addition, Murray became National Chair of the Canadian Masters Alpine Series, served as a Level III Coach for the Canadian Ski Coaches Federation and a Level III Instructor for the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance, and acted as a product consultant and spokesperson for many companies involved in the ski industry. In 1985, he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame.

Dave Murray tragically died from skin cancer in Vancouver at the age of 37. He was survived by his wife, Stephanie Sloan, a freestyle skiing pioneer and world champion, and 22-month-old daughter, Julia. Sloan continued running the Dave Murray Summer Ski Camps throughout the 1990s, while Julia grew up to join Canada's Ski Cross Team and Compete at the 2010 Olympics. Dave Murray was honoured with induction into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. The downhill course on Whistler Mountain was named in his memory in April 1991; it hosted World Cup Downhill and Super-G races from 1993 to 1995, was used for the 2010 Winter Olympics, and is noted as being among the best downhill runs in the world.

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