Eric Mitchell
Eric Mitchell 
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 Canada
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| birthday | April 10, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Calgary , Canada
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| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||
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| society | Altius Nordic Ski Club | ||||||||||||
| Trainer |
Tadeusz Bafia Gregor Linsig |
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| National squad | since 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Pers. Best | 136 m (Vancouver 2010) | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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Eric Mitchell (born April 10, 1992 in Calgary ) is a retired Canadian ski jumper .
Mitchell made his FIS Cup debut in Whistler in February 2008 . In March 2008 he started there in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup and immediately won COC points as 27th and 29th, but these two competitions were also weak. He finished the 2007/08 season with six points in 138th place overall.
In the 2008/09 season he also appeared in the European Continental Cup for the first time, but could not score.
It wasn't until the 2009/10 season that he made the leap towards scoring again. At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games , Mitchell dropped out of the individual competition on the normal and large hill in the qualification. In team jumping he and his teammates MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes , Trevor Morrice and Stefan Read reached 12th place.
On January 12th, 2011 he reached his best place in the Continental Cup with 15th place in jumping in the Korean Pyeongchang .
In summer 2011 he won an FIS Cup in Szczyrk . In the 2011/2012 season , however, he did not win any Continental Cup points in any jumping competition. At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Erzurum , he finished 27th. At the end of the season he finished fourth on both the normal and the large hill at the Canadian Championships in Whistler. He didn't score any points in the Continental Cup in the 2012/2013 season either.
On September 4, 2013, Mitchell announced his retirement as an active ski jumper in order to concentrate on his studies at the University of Calgary.
Private
In 2015, Mitchell came out as gay.
Web links
- Eric Mitchell in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Eric Mitchell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com
- ↑ Today I Announce the End of my Ski Jumping Career - Eric Mitchell ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) Retrieved September 11, 2013.
- ↑ Outsports.com: How this gay Olympic ski jumper did the impossible
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| SURNAME | Mitchell, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calgary , Canada |