Christopher Scott Hastings (born August 17, 1964) is a champion ski jumper born in

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Biography

Chris attended the

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, and was the normal hill US ski jumping champion in both 1985 and 1987. This qualified him for the 1988 Olympics in

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, where he placed 49th overall in the Individual Men's Large Hill ski jumping event. He went on to coach ski jumping for the Ford-Sayre Memorial Ski Council in Hanover, New Hampshire and for the New York Ski Education Foundation. For this, the

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honored him with an International Jumping Coach of Year award in 1992. He is the brother of

Jeff Hastings Jeffrey Paul Hastings (born June 25, 1959) is an American former ski jumper who competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. He is a longtime ski jumping analyst for televised coverage of Winter Olympics competitions. He was named one of th ...

, a member of the US ski jumping team for the 1984 Olympics.

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1964 births Living people American male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers of the United States Sportspeople from Vermont {{US-skijumping-bio-stub