Patrick Weaver (born May 29, 1969) is an American former

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

. He competed at the

1998 Winter Olympics The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...

and the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

. He later became a skiing coach.

Biography

Weaver was born

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, Germany in 1969. Growing up in

Lenox, Massachusetts Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The town is based in Western Massachusetts and part of the Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,095 at the 2020 census. Lenox is the site of Shakespeare & Company and T ...

, Weaver began to ski when he was seven years old. He worked at

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, taking up a training opportunity scheme, where he was paid as a full-time employee, but was allowed to work part-time in order to train. He studied at the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...

for a business degree. Weaver was later inducted into the Hall of Fame at the University. He became the US national champion in cross-country skiing in 1998 and 1999. Weaver competed in seven cross-country skiing events at the

and the

, with a best finish of 16th place in the men's 15 kilometre classical event at the 2002 Olympics. In 2004, Weaver became a Nordic ski coach in

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, and went on to become the Nordic coach at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...

in 2010. In 2011, the

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named Weaver as the coach of the year. In 2019, the New England Nordic Ski Association also named Weaver as the coach of the year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weaver, Patrick 1969 births Living people American male cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers for the United States Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Frankfurt