Lloyd Langlois

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Lloyd Langlois Freestyle skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 11th November 1962 (age 57)
place of birth Sherbrooke , Canada
size 167 cm
Weight 64 kg
job Entrepreneur
Career
discipline Aerials
society Club de Ski Acrobatique
status resigned
End of career February 1997
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Calgary 1988 Aerials
bronze Lillehammer 1994 Aerials
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Tignes 1986 Aerials
bronze Calgary 1988 Aerials
gold Oberjoch 1989 Aerials
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 4th February 1983
 World Cup victories 21st
 Overall World Cup 5. (1992/93)
 Aerials World Cup 1. (1984/85, 1992/93)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 21st 26th 10
 

Lloyd Langlois (born November 11, 1962 in Sherbrooke , Québec ) is a former Canadian freestyle skier . He specialized in the aerials (jumping) discipline. In 1986 and 1989 he was world champion, in 1994 he won the Olympic bronze medal. In the World Cup, he won the discipline classification twice and 21 individual competitions, which makes him the record winner in freestyle jumping.

biography

Athletic career

Lloyd Langlois comes from Magog and was next to Jean-Marc Rozon and the Laroche brothers an important representative of the " Québec Air Force ", which dominated the aerials discipline in the 1980s and 1990s.

Langlois made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in February 1983 in Livigno , where he narrowly missed the podium in fourth. After further top results, he achieved his first podium finish a year later with second place on the Hochkar . With three further podium places, he finished the season in third place in the discipline ranking. In January 1985, he won his first World Cup at Mont Gabriel not far from his hometown. Five more victories this season and two second places secured him the first time in the discipline classification. In the winter of 1985/86 he had to admit defeat to his teammate Yves Laroche in the Aerials classification despite four wins . For this he won the gold medal at the first world championships in Tignes before Laroche.

In the following two years he celebrated further World Cup victories, but remained in the discipline classification behind his strong compatriots in second and third place. At the Olympic Games in Calgary , where Aerials was first held as a demonstration competition, Langlois won the bronze medal. After he had achieved changeable results in only five competitions in 1988/89, he was able to win the title again at the World Championships in Oberjoch . After he missed the following season, he stayed at the World Championships in Lake Placid in fourth for the first time without a medal in a major event. He was also completely absent in 1991/92, but found his previous consistency in the following season and won the discipline ranking again eight years after his first victory. At the World Championships in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee , however, he did not get past tenth place. A year later he finished second in the aerials classification and won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer behind Andreas Schönbächler and Philippe Laroche . In 1997 he celebrated his last World Cup victory in Lake Placid and became Canadian champion for the fourth and final time. At his seventh and last World Championships in Iizuna Kogen, he finished 27th.

At the age of 34, Langlois announced his retirement from competitive sports.

Further career

Lloyd Langlois gained his first experience as a businessman while negotiating sponsorship contracts. During his career as a top athlete, he took advantage of this and set up a frame and poster sale with his wife in Magog. When the two-year lease expired, he closed the business again. After starting to buy real estate early on , he bought a sawmill with up to ten employees in his own forest . After seven years in the wood industry, he sold both the land and the equipment and established a restaurant with his wife in his hometown. He also acquired other properties in and around Magog. In addition to his activities as a restaurateur and property owner, Langlois is the managing director of the local Cirque des Étoiles.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials
space Points space Points
1982/83 48. 10 20th 42
1983/84 19th 23 3. 139
1984/85 9. 25th 1. 150
1985/86 12. 24 2. 147
1986/87 9. 24 2. 147
1987/88 16. 22nd 3. 153
1988/89 47. 13 17th 79
1990/91 44. 14th 14th 125
1992/93 5. 95 1. 572
1993/94 12. 85 2. 680
1994/95 23. 76 6th 608
1995/96 15th 85 5. 764
1996/97 25th 66 10. 528

World Cup victories

Langlois achieved 57 podiums in the World Cup, including 21 victories:

date place country discipline
January 13, 1985 Mont Gabriel Canada Aerials
January 21, 1985 Lake Placid United States Aerials
January 27, 1985 Breckenridge United States Aerials
February 21, 1985 Kranjska Gora Yugoslavia Aerials
March 3, 1985 Oberjoch Germany Aerials
March 23, 1985 Halls Sweden Aerials
December 13, 1985 Tignes France Aerials
January 18, 1986 Lake Placid United States Aerials
January 19, 1986 Lake Placid United States Aerials
March 2, 1986 Oberjoch Germany Aerials
January 11, 1987 Mont Gabriel Canada Aerials
January 24, 1987 Breckenridge United States Aerials
March 1, 1987 Voss Norway Aerials
December 13, 1987 Tignes France Aerials
January 31, 1988 Inawashiro Japan Aerials
7th December 1990 Tignes France Aerials
January 13, 1991 Blackcomb Canada Aerials
January 23, 1993 Lake Placid United States Aerials
4th February 1994 La Clusaz France Aerials
17th December 1994 Tignes France Aerials
January 11, 1997 Lake Placid United States Aerials

More Achievements

  • 4 Canadian championship titles (Aerials 1993–1995 and 1997)

Awards

  • 1987: Induction into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
  • 2002: Induction into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame
  • 2013: Induction into the Laurentian Hall of Fame
  • 2016: Induction into the Sherbrooke Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lloyd Langlois. Sports Reference LLC, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  2. From world champion to serial entrepreneur. BDC, accessed on April 26, 2020 .
  3. ^ Patrick Trudeau: Carnaval du Cirque: les manèges pourraient être de retour l'an prochain. Le Reflet du Lac, June 10, 2019, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ Lloyd Langlois. (PDF) The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  5. ^ Lloyd Langlois. Laurentian Ski Hall of Fame, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  6. ^ Lloyd Langlois. Canadian Olympic Committee , accessed April 26, 2020 .