Erik Guay
 Guay in February 2011 |
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Super G Giant Slalom, Combined |
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| Club | Mont-Tremblant | ||||||||||||
| Born | May 8, 1981 Quebec City, Québec Canada |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | December 10, 2000 (age 19) |
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| Website | erikguay.com | ||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 2 – (2006-10) | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 5 – (2003-11) | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||
| Seasons | 10th – (2003-12) | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 3 - (1 DH, 2 SG) | ||||||||||||
| Podiums | 16 - (10 DH, 6 SG) | ||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 - (12th in 2007) | ||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 1 – (1 SG, 2010) | ||||||||||||
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Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981) is a Canadian alpine ski racer from Mont-Tremblant, Québec. Guay is best known winning the World Cup season title in Super G during the 2010 season and for winning the downhill at the 2011 World Championships.
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[edit] Career
Erik 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.
In Guay's best events, the speed events of Super G and downhill, he has 15 World Cup podiums through the end of the 2011 season. His first podium came in November 2003, when he finished 2nd in a downhill at Lake Louise. He finished in second twice in 2005 in the Super G and third once in downhill. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Guay, who suffered an injury two weeks before the Olympic Games, had to withdraw from the downhill but finished in fourth place in the Super G. He won his first World Cup race the following season at Garmisch, Germany.[1] He was the first Canadian to win a World Cup men's downhill race since 1994, and the first man ever from Québec. Guay's performance in the downhill discipline over the 2007 season was sufficient to place him in third position in the World Cup discipline standings at season end.
In 2009, Guay achieved ten top-10 finishes in World Cup speed events but reached only one podium, a third. Finally, in 2010, after starting the season the same way, Guay broke through after two fifth-place finishes in the speed events at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.[2] He achieved three straight podiums during March, including wins in the last two Super G races of the season, which enabled him to come from far behind and win the World Cup discipline trophy in Super G.[3] Guay became the first Canadian man to win a crystal globe for a discipline title since Steve Podborski in 1982.[2]
Guay struggled with back 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 first World Championship medal, and the second time a Canadian had won the downhill, after John Kucera in 2009.
[edit] Personal life
Erik is married to Karen and has a daughter, Logann Elizabeth Guay, born in January 2009. Erik, Karen and Logann moved to Calgary from Quebec in the summer of 2010.[4]
[edit] World Cup titles and podiums
[edit] Season titles
| Season | Discipline |
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| 2010 | Super G |
[edit] Race podiums
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
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| 2004 | 29 Nov 2003 |  Lake Louise, Canada |
Downhill | 2nd |
| 2006 | 1 Dec 2005 |  Beaver Creek, USA |
Super G | 2nd |
| 16 Dec 2005 |  Val Gardena, Italy |
Super G | 2nd | |
| 17 Dec 2005 | Downhill | 3rd | ||
| 2007 | 20 Jan 2007 |  Val d'Isère, France |
Downhill | 2nd |
| 23 Feb 2007 |  Garmisch, Germany |
Downhill | 3rd | |
| 24 Feb 2007 | Downhill | 1st | ||
| 10 Mar 2007 |  Kvitfjell, Norway |
Downhill | 2nd | |
| 15 Mar 2007 |  Lenzerheide, Switzerland |
Super G | 3rd | |
| 2009 | 5 Dec 2008 | Beaver Creek, USA |
Downhill | 3rd |
| 2010 | 7 Mar 2010 | Kvitfjell, Norway |
Super G | 1st |
| 10 Mar 2010 | Garmisch, Germany |
Downhill | 3rd | |
| 11 Mar 2010 | Super G | 1st | ||
| 2011 | 17 Dec 2010 | Val Gardena, Italy |
Super G | 3rd |
| 11 Mar 2011 | Kvitfjell, Norway |
Downhill | 2nd | |
| 2012 | 28 Jan 2012 | Garmisch, Germany |
Downhill | 2nd |
[edit] References
- ^ Erik Guay at the International Ski Federation
- ^ a b Gary Kingston (2010-03-11). "Canada’s Erik Guay ‘completely ecstatic’ winning season’s World Cup super G title". Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Canada+Guay+completely+ecstatic+winning+season+World+super+title/2672052/story.html.
- ^ Associated Press (2010-03-11). "Guay Continues His Late Surge to Seize the Super-G World Cup". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/sports/12iht-SKI.html. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ Gary Kingston (November 12, 2010). "Erik Guay set to put Olympic disappointment behind him". National Post. http://www.nationalpost.com/Erik+Guay+Olympic+disappointment+behind/3874667/story.html. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
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[edit] External links
- Erik Guay at the International Ski Federation
- FIS-ski.com – Erik Guay – World Cup season standings
- Ski-db.com - Erik Guay - results
- Sport Reference.com - Olympic results - Erik Guay
- erikguay.com - personal site
- Alpine Canada.org - national ski team - athletes - Erik Guay
- Atomic Skis - athletes - Erik Guay
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