Jasey-Jay Anderson (born 13 April 1975 in

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snowboarder Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic ...

and Olympic gold medallist, who competed in the

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, 2002, 2006, 2010,

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. Anderson currently resides in

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outside of

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Personal life

When he is not snowboarding, Anderson lives on a blueberry farm in

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. Since 2007, Jasey-Jay is part of the Tremblant athletes ambassadors program.

Sports career

Anderson is Canada's most decorated snowboarder having achieved a

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gold medal in all 3 slalom events over his career, and an Olympic gold medal in

parallel giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up the ...

. In addition to being a 4 time world champion Anderson has achieved success across the board. Anderson won four consecutive overall FIS Snowboard World Cup titles from 2000 to 2004 and two world cup overall titles in snowboard cross in 2001–02 and 2005–06. These titles included 20 podiums in parallel giant slalom and 19 podiums in snowboard cross. Anderson is also a six-time Olympic athlete, having represented Canada in the 1998 Nagano, 2002 Salt Lake, 2006 Turin, 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi, 2018 PyeongChang,

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. Anderson's best result in the Olympics prior to Vancouver 2010 was a 5th-place finish in snowboard cross in Turin.CBC Sports
"Jasey-Jay Anderson makes Olympic-sized decision"
14 February 2009 Anderson finished 20th in the parallel giant slalom event at the 2006 Turin games.Canadian Olympic Committee
Jasey-Jay Anderson
(photograph included)] Anderson won the Olympic gold medal, gold medal in men's parallel giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics on home soil as the games took place in

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, Canada. Anderson retired following the Vancouver 2010 Olympics but returned to snowboarding to compete in the Sochi 2014 Olympics, where he was the oldest competitor and ultimately finished in fourteenth position. In January 2018, at age 42, he became the oldest snowboarder to compete at a World Cup. Anderson qualified for the PyeongChang Olympics. With his participation at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

, he became the oldest competitor in snowboarding, and the Canadian with the most appearances at the Winter Olympics, becoming a 6-time Winter Olympian.

References

External links

National Team Profile

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Jasey Jay Canadian farmers Canadian male snowboarders Olympic snowboarders of Canada Olympic gold medalists for Canada Snowboarders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics 1975 births Living people Anglophone Quebec people People from Laurentides Olympic medalists in snowboarding Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Quebec