Erik Guay

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Erik Guay
2010
)
Medal record
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Downhill 3 6 8
Super-G 2 2 4
Total 5 8 12
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Garmisch Downhill
Gold medal – first place 2017 St. Moritz Super-G
Silver medal – second place 2017 St. Moritz Downhill

Erik Guay (

2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011, as well as in the super-G in 2017. With 25 World Cup podiums, he is the career leader for Canada.[1][2]

Career

Born in Montreal,[3] Guay was five when he competed in his first ski race, and when he was twelve his father, himself a ski team coach, took him for professional coaching.[4]

His first podium came in November

Lake Louise. He finished in second twice in 2005 in the super-G and third once in downhill. Guay suffered an injury two weeks before the 2006 Winter Olympics, and withdrew from the downhill but finished in fourth place in the super-G, missing the podium by a tenth of a second.[2][5]

He won his first World Cup race the following season at

2009, Guay achieved ten top-20 finishes in World Cup speed events but reached only one podium, a third.[6]

The

1982.[7]

Guay struggled with knee issues during the

2011 season, forcing him to miss events at both Kitzbühel and Wengen. During the 2011 World Championships at Garmisch, Guay won the downhill after not finishing the super-G earlier in the week. The win was Guay's only World Championship medal, and the second consecutive Canadian to win the world title in downhill, following John Kucera in 2009
.

Guay continued to find the podium during the

2015 season recovering from his sixth knee surgery.[12]

At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz, Guay won the super-G event. At 35, Guay became the oldest World Champion ever, replacing incumbent super-G champion Hannes Reichelt.[13] That weekend, Guay also placed second in the downhill event.[14]

Guay was unable to participate in the alpine skiing events at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang because of a back injury.[2]

Hours before Guay was supposed to compete at Lake Louise in November 2018, he decided to retire from the sport after his teammate Manuel Osborne-Paradis suffered a violent crash. He had already planned to retire after the end of the season but hastened his departure after hearing that Osborne-Paradis had needed an emergency airlift.[2]

Personal life

Guay and his wife Karen have four daughters and they live in

Mont-Tremblant
.

He is of Norwegian descent through one grandmother.[15] Since 2009, Erik Guay has been part of the Tremblant athletes ambassadors program.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
2010
 Super-G

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2003
 21 79 — — 32 37 —
2004
 22 55 — — 24 28 —
2005
 23 25 — — 15 14 19
2006
 24 18 — 47 6 11 —
2007
 25 12 — 49 10 3 —
2008
 26 18 — 41 6 12 —
2009
 27 22 — — 12 6 —
2010
 28 13 — — 1 13 —
2011
 29 26 — — 13 14 —
2012
 30 19 — — 12 7 —
2013
 31 18 — — 11 6 —
2014
 32 13 — — 21 3 —
2015
 33 injured, out for season
2016
 34 26 — — 20 13 —
2017
 35 14 — — 9 5 —
2018
 36 116 — — 36 — —

Race podiums

  • 5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG)
  • 24 podiums – (17 DH, 7 SG)
Season Date Location Discipline Place
2004
 29 Nov 2003
Lake Louise
, Canada		 Downhill 2nd
2006
 1 Dec 2005 United States Beaver Creek, USA Super-G 2nd
16 Dec 2005 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 2nd
17 Dec 2005 Downhill 3rd
2007
 20 Jan 2007 France Val d'Isère, France Downhill 2nd
23 Feb 2007 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill 3rd
24 Feb 2007 Downhill 1st
10 Mar 2007  Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill 2nd
15 Mar 2007  Switzerland  Lenzerheide, Switzerland Super-G 3rd
2009
 5 Dec 2008 United States Beaver Creek, USA Downhill 3rd
2010
 7 Mar 2010  Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G 1st
10 Mar 2010 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill 3rd
11 Mar 2010 Super-G 1st
2011
 17 Dec 2010 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 3rd
11 Mar 2011  Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill 2nd
2012
 28 Jan 2012 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill 2nd
4 Feb 2012 France Chamonix, France Downhill 3rd
2013
 15 Dec 2012 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 3rd
26 Jan 2013 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill 2nd
2014
 21 Dec 2013 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Downhill 1st
29 Dec 2013 Italy Bormio, Italy Downhill 3rd
1 Mar 2014  Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill 1st
2016
 16 Mar 2016  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
2017
 16 Dec 2016 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Super-G 3rd

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2003 21 — — 6 6 17
2005 23 — — 19 22 DNS
2007 25 — — 6 4 —
2009 27 — — 19 DNF —
2011 29 — — DNF 1 —
2013 31 — — 23 DSQ —
2015 33 injured, out for season
2017 35 — — 1 2 —

References

  1. ^ a b c d Reguly, Eric (January 30, 2014). "Erik Guay obsessed with closing the gap". The Globe and Mail.
  2. ^ a b c d Strashin, Jamie (November 22, 2018). "Canadian skiing great Erik Guay abruptly retires after teammate's violent crash". CBC Sports. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
  3. ^ Wolfe, Cory (February 10, 2006). "Downhillers plan to attack course", Calgary Herald, p. E1.
  4. ^ "Go Erik!". Archived from the original on 2004-04-11.
  5. ^ a b Erik Guay at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  6. ^ a b "Go Erik!". Archived from the original on 2004-04-11.
  7. ^
    The Vancouver Sun.[permanent dead link
    ]
  8. ^ "Guay Continues His Late Surge to Seize the Super-G World Cup". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  9. ^ McKee, Hank (December 21, 2013). "Alliance pays off for Canadians and Norwegians; Guay wins Val Gardena". Ski Racing. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  10. ^ McKee, Hank (December 29, 2013). "Svindal bests Bormio downhill". Retrieved March 1, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ McKee, Hank (March 1, 2014). "Guay wins Kvitfjell downhill with Ganong fourth". Ski Racing. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  12. ^ Hall, Vicki (27 November 2015). "Erik Guay feeling good heading into season-opening race". Toronto Sun.
  13. ^ Nichols, Paula (8 February 2017). "Guay wins gold, Osborne-Paradis bronze in world championship super-G". Canada Olympic Team.
  14. ^ Hall, Vicki (12 February 2017). "'The biggest achievement ever': Canadian ski legend Erik Guay wins second world alpine medal in four days". National Post.
  15. ^ "Vinneren er litt norsk også". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 9 February 2017. p. 29.

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