Kevin Drury

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Kevin Drury Freestyle skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 20th July 1988 (age 32)
Career
discipline Ski cross
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
bronze Park City 2019 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 5th December 2015
 World Cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup 4. ( 2019/20 )
 Ski cross world cup 1. (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Ski cross 5 5 1
last change: March 18, 2020

Kevin Drury (born July 20, 1988 ) is a Canadian freestyle skier . He starts in the ski cross discipline .

Career

Drury began his sports career as an alpine ski racer . From 2005 to 2014, he mainly competed in the Nor-Am Cup and FIS races and won six FIS races. As a ski crosser he started in Val Thorens for the first time in the European Cup in January 2015 and finished 26th and 4th. The following month he won two victories in the Nor-Am-Cup and thus won the ski-cross discipline of the Nor-Am-Cup. After winning the European Cup race in Pitztal at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he started the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Montafon for the first time on December 5, 2015 , finishing in 41st place. In the further course of the season he came under the top ten four times and thus finished 17th in the Ski Cross World Cup.

In the following 2016/17 season , Drury achieved eight top ten finishes in 14 World Cup starts and thus came eighth in the Ski Cross World Cup. At the season highlight, the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , he finished 27th. After finishing 14th in Val Thorens at the beginning of the 2017/18 season , he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup with second place in Arosa . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Drury advanced to the final run, fell and took fourth place. On the other hand, he won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in Park City . During the 2019/20 season , Drury was superior to the competition: he won four races and came second three times, which meant he won the discipline standings by a large margin.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Ski cross
space Points space Points
2015/16 80. 16.58 17th 199
2016/17 45. 25.64 8th. 359
2017/18 15th 38.80 3. 398
2018/19 49 23.36 11. 257
2019/20 4th 69.82 1. 768

World Cup victories

Drury has achieved eleven podium places in the World Cup so far, five of them victories:

date place country
4th March 2018 Sunny Valley Russia
December 6, 2019 Val Thorens France
17th December 2019 Arosa Switzerland
December 21, 2019 San Candido Italy
February 1, 2020 Megève France

Nor-Am Cup

  • Season 2014/15: 1st ski cross classification
  • 5 podium places in the Nor-Am Cup, including 3 wins

More Achievements

  • 3 podiums in the European Cup, including 1 victory

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