Erik Guay
| — Alpine skier — | |
Guay in February 2011
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| Disciplines | Downhill, super-G |
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| Club | Mont-Tremblant |
| Born |
August 5, 1981 Montreal, Québec, Canada |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| World Cup debut | December 10, 2000 (age 19) |
| Website | erikguay.com |
| Olympics | |
| Teams | 3 – (2006, 2010, 2014) |
| Medals | 0 |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 6 – (2003–17) |
| Medals | 3 (2 gold) |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 14th – (2003–14, 2016–17) |
| Wins | 5 – (3 DH, 2 SG) |
| Podiums | 24 – (17 DH, 7 SG) |
| Overall titles | 0 – (12th in 2007) |
| Discipline titles | 1 – (SG, 2010) |
Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981) is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer. Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Guay won the World Cup season title in super-G in 2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011. With 22 World Cup podiums, he is the career leader for Canada.
Born in Montreal, 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.
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. Guay suffered an injury two weeks before the 2006 Winter Olympics, and withdrew 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. 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 alpine skiing over the 2007 season was enough to place him in third position in the final world cup standings. In 2009, Guay achieved ten top-20 finishes in World Cup speed events but reached only one podium, a third.
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