Jean-Marc Rozon (born September 27, 1961 in Sherbrooke , Québec ) is a former Canadian freestyle skier . He specialized in the aerials (jumping) discipline. In 1988 he won the demonstration competition at the Olympic Games in Calgary, which is also considered the world championship. In the World Cup he won two discipline rankings and 13 individual competitions.
Jean-Marc Rozon comes from Sherbrooke and, alongside Lloyd Langlois and the Laroche brothers, was an important representative of the “ Québec Air Force ”, which dominated the aerials discipline in the 1980s and 1990s.
Rozon made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in its first season in January 1980. A year later he reached his first podium in second place in Livigno and worked his way up to the top ten in the discipline classification. In January 1982 he celebrated his first victory in Blackcomb and narrowly missed the top three in the World Cup ranking. After he had contested only two competitions in the 1982/83 season, he did not take part in the World Cup at all in the following three years.
His comeback season was a huge success. First he achieved his first World Cup victory in five years in Lake Placid in January 1987 . With four more victories, he won the discipline classification for the first time ahead of his team-mate Lloyd Langlois, and he also won the hard-fought Canadian state championship. In the coming winter he was able to successfully defend this title with another five wins this season. He also won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Calgary , where Aerials was first held as a demonstration competition. This also counts as a world championship title. In the following winters he was again unable to take part in all competitions and therefore missed further attempts at major events. He celebrated his last of 13 World Cup victories in January 1990 in Breckenridge . In February 1991 he competed in his last World Cup competition on Mont Gabriel.
Rozon, who went down in freestyle history as the inventor of some groundbreaking jumps, passed this knowledge on after his active career as a trainer. From 1998 to 2000 he was in charge of the Canadian national team, with a view to the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City he worked for the associations of Sweden and Norway.
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