The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (french: Le Temple de la renommée du ski canadien) was created by the
Canadian Ski Museum
The Canadian Ski Museum (French: ''Le Musée canadien du ski'') is a museum based in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. It was founded in 1971 by a dedicated group of volunteers and ski enthusiasts. Shortly thereafter, in 1975 the museum was incorporated. Sin ...
in 1982 to honour
skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IO ...
pioneers, competitors,
coaches
Coach may refer to:
Guidance/instruction
* Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities
* Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process
** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers
Transportation
* Coac ...
Lucie Barma
Lucie Barma is a Canadian freestyle skier.
She won a bronze medal in ski ballet at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1986 in Tignes
Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes regi ...
Felix Belczyk
Felix Belczyk (born 11 August 1961) is a Canadian former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics and 1992 Winter Olympics.
Belczyk was born on 11 August 1961 in Calgary, Alberta. He was a member of the Canadian National Alpine Ski ...
Alexandre Bilodeau
Alexandre Bilodeau (; born September 8, 1987) is a Canadian retired freestyle skiing, freestyle skier from Rosemère, Rosemere, Quebec, Bilodeau currently resides in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec. Bilodeau won a gold medal in the Freestyle skiing a ...
, 2020
*Réal Boulanger, 2019
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Rob Boyd
Rob Boyd (born 15 February 1966) is a Canadian former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics
The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as ...
, 2000
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Jean-Luc Brassard
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position fo ...
, 2008
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Todd Brooker
Todd Brooker (born November 24, 1959) is a former alpine ski racer member Crazy Canucks and a ski commentator on television.
World Cup career
Born in Waterloo, Ontario, Brooker learned to ski and race at Blue Mountain, near Collingwood and ...
, 1991
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Jean-Guy Brunet
Jean-Guy Brunet (born 26 April 1939) is a Canadians, Canadian former Alpine skiing, alpine skier who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics and in the 1964 Winter Olympics.
References
1939 births
Living people
Canadian male alpine skiers ...
, 1999
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Horst Bulau
Horst Hardy Bulau (born 14 August 1962) is a Canadian former ski jumper who competed for the Canadian national team.
Career
By the end of his career, he had thirteen World Cup wins to his credit, the most by any skier in Canadian history during ...
Jacques Charland
Jacques Charland (April 10, 1930 – October 12, 2013) was a Canadian ski jumper who competed from 1952 to 1960. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was 25th in the individual large hill event at Oslo in 1952. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Q ...
Steve Collins
Stephen Collins (born 21 July 1964) is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 1997. Known as the Celtic Warrior, Collins is the most successful male Irish boxer in recent professional boxing history, having held the WBO m ...
, 1995
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Chandra Crawford
Chandra Crawford (born November 19, 1983) is a Canadian cross-country skier who has competed since 2001 at the age of 16. Prior to this, she was a biathlete for five years. She was born in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
Career
On February 22, 2006, ...
Nicolas Fontaine
Nicolas Fontaine (born 5 October 1970 in Magog, Quebec) is a Canadian freestyle skier. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, where he placed sixth in aerials. He also competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and at the ...
, 2007
*Anna Fraser (-Sproule,) 1996
* John Fripp, 1988
*Shaun Fripp, 2009
* John Fry, 2018*
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*Hermann Gadner, 1993*
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Meredith Gardner
Meredith Knox Gardner (October 20, 1912August 9, 2002) was an American linguist and codebreaker. Gardner worked in counter-intelligence, decoding Soviet intelligence traffic regarding espionage in the United States, in what came to be known as ...
Hans Gmoser
Johann Wolfgang "Hans" Gmoser, CM (July 7, 1932 – July 5, 2006) was a founder of modern mountaineering in Canada. Born in Austria in 1932, he came to Canada in 1951, and since then has been a major driving force behind the growing populari ...
Thomas Grandi
Thomas Grandi (born 27 December 1972 in Bolzano, Italy) is a Canadian retired alpine skier. He specialized in technical skiing giant slalom and slalom.
Skiing career
Grandi started in the Alpine Skiing World Cup in the 1992-93 season. His f ...
, 2018
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Nancy Greene
Nancy Catherine Greene Raine (born May 11, 1943) is a former Canadian Senator for British Columbia and an Olympian alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Greene Raine won t ...
(-Raine,) 1992
*Louis Grimes, 1986*
*H. Rae Grinnell, 1987
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*Fred Hall, 1983*
*Martin Hall, 2018
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Pierre Harvey
Pierre Harvey, (born March 24, 1957) is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (road cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics ( cross-country skiing).
Early life and career
Born ...
, 1992
*Ellis Hazen, 1982*
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Anne Heggtveit
Anne Heggtveit, (born January 11, 1939) is a former alpine ski racer from Canada. She was an Olympic gold medallist and double world champion in 1960.
Early years
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Heggtveit was raised in New Edinburgh, one of the ol ...
(-Hamilton,) 1982
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Jennifer Heil
Jennifer Heil (born April 11, 1983) is a Canadians, Canadian freestyle skiing, freestyle skier from Spruce Grove, Alberta. Heil started skiing at age two. Jennifer Heil won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics games in Turi ...
Bill Irwin
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has made a n ...
, 2000
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Dave Irwin
Dave Irwin (born July 12, 1954) is a former alpine ski racer who represented Canada at two Winter Olympic Games and won a World Cup downhill. He was one of the "Crazy Canucks", a group of Canadian downhill racers who rose to prominence on the Wor ...
Kathy Kreiner
Katharine Kreiner-Phillips (born May 4, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.
Career
She won the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. First out of the gate on Friday t ...
Roger Langley
Roger Langley (June 4, 1901 – 1986) was the 1936 – 1948 president of the National Ski Association of America (now known as U.S. Ski & Snowboard) and a driving force behind the founding of the National Ski Patrol.
Langley's skiing ca ...
, 1986*
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Lloyd Langlois
Lloyd Langlois (born November 11, 1962) is a Canadian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in aerials.Alain LaRoche, 1999
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Philippe LaRoche
Philippe LaRoche (born December 12, 1966) is a Canadian freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in aerials.Kerrin Lee-Gartner
Kerrin Anne Lee-Gartner (born September 21, 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medallist from Canada.
Born in Trail, British Columbia, she grew up in Rossland and raced as a youngster at Red Mountain. Lee-Gartner ...
, 1996
*Sigurd Lockeberg, 1982*
*Sir
Arnold Lunn
Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 – 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952. His father was a lay Methodist minister, but Lunn was an agn ...
Ashleigh McIvor
Ashleigh McIvor DeMerit (born September 15, 1983) is a Canadian retired freestyle skier currently residing in Whistler, British Columbia. McIvor was a member of the Canadian national ski cross team and became the first gold medal winner of women ...
Nels Nelsen
Nels Nelsen (3 June 1894 – 3 June 1943), born Nils Johan Nilsen and sometimes referred to as Nels Nelson, was a Norwegian-born Canadian ski jumper active between 1916 and 1932. Later he was ski jumping organizer. He was among the world's best ...
Steve Podborski
Stephen Gregory "Steve" Podborski, (born July 25, 1957) is a Canadian former World Cup and Olympic downhill ski racer.
Racing career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Podborski started skiing at the age of two and a half at Craigleith Ski Club in C ...
Ken Read
Kenneth John Read (born November 6, 1955) is one of the most respected sport leaders in Canada. This World Cup alpine ski racer from Canada was a specialist in the downhill and a two-time Olympian. He won five World Cup races during his ten-year ...
Liisa Savijarvi
Liisa Savijarvi (born 29 December 1963 in Bracebridge, Ontario) is a Canadian former skier.
Career
Her career in Alpine skiing started with the Southern Ontario Division Ski team in December 1978. She made many appearances at the Canadian Alpin ...
, 1997
*Angela Schmidt-Foster, 1996
*William B. Schreiber, 2019
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Beckie Scott
Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, (born August 1, 1974) is a Canadian retired cross-country skier. She is Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected ...
Gerry Sorensen
Gerry Sorensen (born October 15, 1958) is a Canadian former female alpine skier.
Sorensen was born in Kimberley, British Columbia
Kimberley is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada along Highway 95A between the Purcell and Rocky Mount ...
Brian Stemmle
Brian Stemmle (born October 12, 1966) is a Canadian retired skier who competed primarily in the downhill and Super-G disciplines. Stemmle was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for 14 years and was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of F ...
, 2002
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Robert Swan
Robert Charles Swan, OBE, FRGS (born 28 July 1956) is the first person to walk to both poles.
He is currently an advocate for the protection of Antarctica and renewable energy. Swan is also the founder of 2041, a company which is dedicated ...
Melanie Turgeon
Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness" and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark".Karolina Wisniewska, 2007
* Wayne Wong, 2009
*Dave Wood, 2020
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Lauren Woolstencroft
Lauren Woolstencroft (born November 24, 1981, in Calgary, Alberta)The Province"Woolstencroft's electric performance" Damian Inwood, 21 March 2010, (accessed 21 March 2010) is a Canadian alpine skier and electrical engineer. Born mis ...
, 2019
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Rhoda Wurtele
''Rhoda'' is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns starring Valerie Harper that originally aired on CBS for five seasons from September 9, 1974, to December 9, 1978. It was the first spin-off of ''The Mary Tyle ...
List of ski areas and resorts in Canada
This is a list of ski areas and resorts in Canada.
Alberta
* WinSport's Canada Olympic Park (1988 Winter Olympics sliding and jumping events)
*Canmore Nordic Centre (1988 Winter Olympics Nordic and biathlon events)
* Canyon Ski Area - Red Deer
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List of skiing topics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to skiing:
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a b ...