Ken Read
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Combined | ||||||
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| Club | Lake Louise Ski Club | ||||||
| Born | November 6, 1955 | ||||||
| World Cup debut | December 6, 1974, 1975 (age 19) | ||||||
| Retired | March 1983 (age 27) | ||||||
| Olympics | |||||||
| Teams | 2 – (1976, 1980) | ||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||
| World Championships | |||||||
| Teams | 4 – (1976, '78, '80, '82) includes two Olympics |
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| Medals | 0 | ||||||
| World Cup | |||||||
| Seasons | 10 – (1974–1983) | ||||||
| Wins | 5 – (5 DH) | ||||||
| Podiums | 14 – (14 DH) | ||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (11th in 1978, 1980) | ||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (2nd in DH, 1980) | ||||||
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Kenneth John 'Ken' Read, CM BA (born November 6, 1955) is one of the most decorated sport leaders in Canadian history. This World Cup alpine ski racer from Canada was a specialist in the downhill and a two-time Olympian, he won five World Cup races during his ten-year international career.
Read grew up in Vancouver, Kingston and Calgary. He currently resides in Calgary and Canmore.
Ken Read was a member of the Canadian alpine ski team from 1973 to 1983 and competed in two Olympic Winter Games. A lifelong Calgary resident, Read was part "Crazy Canucks", the Canadian downhill team of the late 1970s and early 1980s, that consistently challenged the Europeans with a daring racing style.
Read's first World Cup top ten finish came in January 1975 in a combined event at Kitzbühel. Later that calendar year, he became the first Canadian (and North American) to win a men's Downhill World Cup race, a downhill in Val-d'Isère, France on December 7, 1975, where he was one of four Canadians to finish in the top ten. Read went on to win four more World Cup downhill races and his point total for the 1980 season placed him second in the downhill final standings. He was the first non-European to win both the Austrian downhill Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel, and the Swiss race Lauberhorn at Wengen. These two victories complemented his 1978 win at Les Houches near Chamonix, France, in the Arlberg-Kandahar, ski racing's oldest classic event. Another victory in January 1979 at Morzine was disallowed because of a non-conforming suit due to a manufacturing flaw. His outstanding season in 1980 was marred by an unfortunate binding release, just fifteen seconds into the Olympic downhill where he was considered the gold-medal favourite.
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