Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott | |
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| Born | June 28, 1976 |
| Children | Jason Blades |
| Website | Official Seth Wescott Webpage |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men's snowboarding | ||
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2006 Turin | Men's snowboard cross |
Seth Wescott (born June 28, 1976 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American snowboarder. Wescott lives near Farmington, Maine and has trained in the mountains near Cordova, Alaska at times, along with Sugarloaf/USA in Maine. He began skiing at age eight, before turning to snowboarding at age ten. In 1989, after competing in both sports for a few years, he stopped skiing to focus mainly on snowboarding. Wescott has competed in the X Games and he became involved in Snowboard Cross in 1997, going on to win a gold medal at its 2006 Winter Olympics debut in Turin, Italy.
Wescott co-owns The Rack, a popular restaurant and bar near Sugarloaf that caters to skiers and snowboarders. His mother, Margaret Gould-Wescott, teaches modern dance at the University of Maine at Farmington.
External links
- Seth Wescott on Go211.com - blogs, photos, videos
- Seth Wescott Official Page
- NBC Olympics
- Seth's U.S. Olympic Team bio ... with three photo galleries
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- American snowboarders
- Olympic snowboarders of the United States
- Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Winter Olympics medalists
- People from Maine
- People from the Triangle, North Carolina
- Irish-American sportspeople
- People from Durham, North Carolina
- American Winter Olympic medalist stubs