Alpine Skiing
- Jean-Luc Brassard, freestyle ski – moguls, Olympic Gold Medal – 1994
- The Crazy Canucks, a group of downhill racers who were extraordinarily successful in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
- Dave Irwin
- Dave Murray
- Steve Podborski, Canada's only overall World Cup winner
- Ken Read, the first Canadian male to win on the World Cup circuit
- Todd Brooker
- Nancy Greene, alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1968
- Ann Heggtveit, world and 1960 Winter Olympics ski champion
- Kerrin Lee-Gartner, alpine skiing – downhill, Olympic Gold Medal – 1992
- Kathy Kreiner, alpine skiing – giant slalom,Olympic Gold Medal – 1976
- Gerry Sorensen, alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1982
- Melanie Turgeon, alpine skiing – downhill, World Champion – 1993
- Lucille Wheeler, alpine world ski champion
- Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, alpine ski champions of the 1940s and 1950s
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Famous quotes containing the word alpine:
“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)