Erik Guay

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Erik Guay Alpine skiing
Erik Guay in February 2011
Erik Guay in February 2011
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 5th August 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Montreal , Canada
size 181 cm
Weight 90 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G , giant slalom
society Mont Tremblant, QC
status resigned
End of career 22nd November 2018
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 Departure
gold St. Moritz 2017 Super g
silver St. Moritz 2017 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 10, 2000
 Individual world cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup 12. ( 2006/07 )
 Downhill World Cup 3. (2006/07, 2013/14 )
 Super G World Cup 1st ( 2009/10 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 41st ( 2007/08 )
 Combination World Cup 19th ( 2004/05 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 3 6th 8th
 Super G 2 2 4th
 

Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981 in Montreal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ski racer . He specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. In the 2009/10 season he won the Super-G discipline, in 2011 he was world champion in the downhill and in 2017 in the super-G. His younger brother Stefan Guay was also a ski racer.

biography

The French-speaking Canadian took part in FIS races for the first time in December 1996 , and played in the Nor-Am Cup from February 1997. On December 10, 2000, he competed in his first World Cup race, the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère . In the Nor-Am Cup he reached second place overall in the 2001/02 season and won the downhill classification. He won his first World Cup points on December 14, 2002 as 28th of the downhill in Val-d'Isère.

At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, Guay surprisingly took sixth place in both the downhill and super-G. He achieved his first podium in the World Cup at the beginning of the 2003/04 season when he finished second behind Michael Walchhofer on the Lake Louise descent . Shortly afterwards he suffered a serious knee injury in training for the descent from Val Gardena and had to take a break for the rest of the season. With four top 10 results he made a successful comeback in 2004/05 .

In both the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2007 World Cup , he narrowly missed a medal when he was fourth in the Super-G and in the Downhill. The decision to his disadvantage was particularly tight in 2007, when he lost just two hundredths of a second to third-placed Patrik Järyn .

On February 24, 2007, Guay won his first World Cup race, the downhill run on the Kandahar slope in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the 2009/10 season he won the Super G World Cup with two victories in Kvitfjell and at the World Cup final in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He was only the second Canadian to win a discipline world cup. Before that, only Steve Podborski had succeeded, who had won the Downhill World Cup in the 1981/82 season with the same number of points as the Swiss Peter Müller . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games , Guay was fifth in the downhill and super-G and 16th in the giant slalom. In the Super-G, he was only three hundredths of a second short of third-placed Andrew Weibrecht .

In the 2010/11 season , Guay was initially unable to match the level of the pre-winter season. He finished third in the Super-G in Val Gardena , but otherwise did not get past eleventh place. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, however, he celebrated the greatest success of his career, winning the gold medal in the downhill. Both in the 2011/12 season and in the 2012/13 season he scored in World Cup downhill second and third place, while in the 2013/14 season celebrated two downhill victories.

At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz on February 8, he won the gold medal in the Super-G and was crowned world champion again, setting a new age record at 35 years and 188 days and Hannes Reichelt , who two years ago (also had become world champion in the super-G discipline. Twelve days earlier, on January 27th, he had a bad fall on the World Cup downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was unable to take part in the second downhill that was scheduled for the next day. In the downhill he was able to win the silver medal with second place.

During the 2017/2018 season , he hardly played in the World Cup due to persistent back problems and also had to forego the 2018 Winter Olympics . In November 2018, Guay, who had originally planned to contest another season , announced his retirement from active racing at short notice after a serious fall of his teammate Manuel Osborne-Paradis in downhill training at Lake Louise.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2002/03 79. 60 37. 30th 32. 30th - - - -
2003/04 55. 135 28. 81 24. 54 - - - -
2004/05 25th 330 14th 187 15th 131 - - 19th 12
2005/06 18th 435 11. 221 6th 204 47. 10 - -
2006/07 12. 529 3. 393 10. 136 - - - -
2007/08 18th 467 12. 201 6th 240 41. 26th - -
2008/09 22nd 408 6th 287 12. 121 - - - -
2009/10 13. 487 13. 156 1. 331 - - - -
2010/11 26th 303 14th 178 13. 125 - - - -
2011/12 19th 537 7th 363 12. 174 - - - -
2012/13 18th 378 6th 267 11. 111 - - - -
2013/14 13. 440 3. 357 21st 83 - - - -
2014/15 No results due to injury
2015/16 26th 364 12. 247 20th 117 - - - -
2016/17 16. 430 5. 255 9. 175 - - - -
2017/18 116. 22nd - - 36. 22nd - - - -

World Cup victories

  • 25 podium places, including 5 wins:
date place country discipline
February 24, 2007 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Departure
March 7, 2010 Kvitfjell Norway Super G
March 11, 2010 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Super G
December 21, 2013 Val Gardena Italy Departure
March 1, 2014 Kvitfjell Norway Departure

Nor-Am Cup

  • Season 2001/02 : second overall, first downhill standings, the second Super-G standings
  • 11 podium places, including 1 victory

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

  • 8 Canadian championship titles
    • Super-G 2002, 2003 and 2010
    • Departure in 2002 and 2007
    • Giant slalom 2007 and 2008
    • Combination 2002
  • 13 victories in FIS races (8 × giant slalom, 3 × downhill, 2 × Super-G)

Web links

Commons : Erik Guay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World champion Guay cancels for the Olympics. In: laola1.at. January 31, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ World champion Guay declares his resignation. ORF , November 22, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Guay, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada