Morgan Pridy

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Morgan Pridy Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 9th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Vancouver , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G
combination
society Whistler Mountain Ski Club
status resigned
End of career May 2016
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 3, 2012
 Overall World Cup 108th ( 2013/14 )
 Super G World Cup 34th ( 2014/15 )
 Combination World Cup 33rd (2013/14)
 

Morgan Pridy (born October 9, 1990 in Vancouver ) is a retired Canadian ski racer . He specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. His brother Conrad Pridy , who was two years older than him, was also a ski racer.

biography

As a 15-year-old Pridy began to participate in FIS races in December 2005 , where he initially mainly denied giant slalom and slalom . The first appearances in the Nor-Am Cup followed a year later. In January 2008 he was able to win an FIS race for the first time. Over the next few years there was a gradual change to the fast disciplines. In the 2010/11 season he managed to establish himself in the front midfield in the Nor-Am Cup, and in January 2011 he competed for the first time in Europe. After some good results, on March 3, 2012, he was given the opportunity to compete in a World Cup race for the first time and finished in 38th place on the downhill from Kvitfjell .

In mid-December 2012, Pridy achieved a podium finish in the Nor-Am Cup for the first time. At the end of the 2012/13 season, he won three races over two days in Nakiska . With that he won the Super-G-classification and the super-combination-classification of the Nor-Am Cup, while he finished third in the overall classification. With these successes, Pridy got a permanent place in the World Cup. Pridy won his first World Cup points on December 7, 2013 with 24th place in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he surprised everyone with 10th place in the Super-G, his best result ever. At the end of the season he won the Canadian Downhill Championship.

Pridy's best World Cup result was 16th in the Super-G at Beaver Creek on December 6, 2014. After the 2015/16 season , Pridy ended his active career.

successes

World championships

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014 : 10th Super-G, 20th Super Combined, 33rd giant slalom

World cup

  • 2 placements among the best 20

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2012/13 season : 3rd overall ranking, 1st Super-G ranking, 1st combined ranking, 5th downhill ranking
  • 2015/16 season : 9th overall classification, 4th downhill classification, 4th Super-G classification
  • 9 podium places, including 5 wins:
date place country discipline
12th March 2013 Nakiska Canada Super G
13th March 2013 Nakiska Canada Super G
13th March 2013 Nakiska Canada Super combination
March 14, 2014 Nakiska Canada Super G
March 12, 2016 Aspen United States Departure

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Who won't be there in the 2016/17 ski winter? skiweltcup.tv, 2016, accessed on April 15, 2017 .