Grant Harder

Grant Harder
nation	Canada
birthday	1975
date of death	December 2, 2002
Place of death	Bittern Lake ,  Canada
Career
National squad	since 1991
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	1st December 1991

Grant Harder (* 1975 ; † December 2, 2002 in Bittern Lake ) was a Canadian ski jumper .

Career

Sports career

Harder made his debut in the ski jumping World Cup on December 1, 1991 in Thunder Bay . With rank 60, however, he remained far behind the world's best. After two years, he started in the ski jumping Continental Cup in the 1993/94 season . After he achieved 50 points and rank 116 in the overall standings, he was used again in the World Cup in March 1994 in Thunder Bay. He achieved ninth place in the team competition together with Jeremy Blackburn , Dan Kardas and John Lockyer and 54th place in the individual competition.

Murder and suicide

After separating from his wife, Harder received regular, but limited, access rights for his son Cole . He was due to appear in court in December 2002 for various offenses in his marriage. After picking up his son from his grandparents on December 2, 2002 after a weekend, the two of them are lost, although Harder was supposed to bring him to his mother. It wasn't until the night of December 3, 2002 that his body and that of his son were found in his pickup truck at Bittern Lake . The investigators assume that Harder first shot his two-year-old son and then himself. The reason is said to have been the suspicion that his son was not his but comes from an extramarital affair with his wife.

successes

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1993/94	116.	50

Web links

• Grant Harder in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Overview of the murder and suicide on fathersforlife.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Father in murder-suicide had restraining order (English) . In: CBC , December 5, 202. Archived from the original on December 19, 2002. Retrieved September 26, 2013.