John Fairbairn works as a technician and lives in Calgary . He started skeleton in 2006 and has been a member of the Canadian national team since that year. He moved up to the senior squad in 2009. His track coach is Duff Gibson , his sprint coach Kim Cousins. Fairbairn made his debut in the Skeleton America's Cup in 2006 on his home track in Calgary and was 23rd. It was not until the 2007/08 season that he was back in the America's Cup after races in the junior division and nationally. Already in his first race of the season he reached a top ten position in eighth place and was third in the next race just days later. He started in four of the six races of the season and always achieved single-digit placings, which in the overall standings was enough for sixth place shared with Hiroatsu Takahashi . In the first half of the 2008/09 season Fairbairn was initially used in the European Skeleton Cup . Here he was able to achieve some notable results. Already in his first race in Winterberg he achieved a single-digit placement in seventh place, in the following race in Altenberg he only had to admit defeat to the German Sebastian Haupt . A week later he finished second behind Kevin Ellis in Igls , and a day later he was third in the same place. In the overall standings, the Canadian took fourth place. in the second half of the season Fairbairn was used in the Intercontinental Cup. In his first race in Cesana Pariol he only achieved a 22nd place, but was able to improve himself by ten places in the following race and finish 12th. In Igls he achieved his best result so far in the racing series by finishing fifth. Also in the 2009/10 season , the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup was Fairbairn's main field of activity. But apart from a sixth place on his home track in Calgary, he could not achieve a result in the top ten. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , the Canadian played in front of a home crowd as a forerunner.
At the Canadian Championships 2010 Fairbairn won the bronze medal. This was followed by the qualifying races of Canada for the international competitions. In the first and third races he finished second behind Eric Neilson and Michael Douglas , and he won the second race. This enabled him to secure the starting place for the 2010/11 World Cup season alongside the seeded Olympic champion Jon Montgomery . He contested his first race in Igls and, in eleventh place, only missed the top ten by one place.
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