Patrick Biggs
Patrick Biggs 
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 Canada
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| birthday | 11th October 1982 (age 37) | ||||||
| place of birth | Berwick , Australia | ||||||
| size | 187 cm | ||||||
| Weight | 84 kg | ||||||
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| discipline | Slalom , giant slalom | ||||||
| society | Ottawa Ski Club | ||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||
| End of career | September 2012 | ||||||
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Patrick Biggs (born October 11, 1982 in Berwick , Australia ) is a retired Canadian ski racer. He mainly drove slalom races and achieved two top 10 placements in both the World Cup and World Championships .
biography
Biggs is the son of an Australian father and a Canadian mother. At the age of five he and his parents moved from Australia to Ottawa , Canada. He drove his first races at the age of six for the Ottawa Ski Club.
In his first World Cup season 2004/05 Biggs reached two tenth places in the slalom in Chamonix and Wengen . (In his debut race on January 9th in Chamonix, he qualified thirtieth for the second run, in which he finished with a best time of 10th place.) With that he qualified for the 2005 World Championships in Bormio . There he convinced in the slalom. Thanks to his best run time, he was able to improve from 23rd place (after the first run) to ninth place and ensured a good team result with Thomas Grandi (sixth place) and Michael Janyk (eleventh place).
In its first participation in the Olympic Games, in 2006 in Turin , Biggs was eliminated in the slalom. As a result, he could no longer build on his previous achievements and often failed in the World Cup because of the qualification for the second run of the best 30th point wins were mostly the exception. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , he drove back to ninth place in slalom, benefiting from numerous failures.
In the Nor-Am Cup , the North American continental championship, Biggs was one of the best slalom runners for several years. From the 2004/05 season to the 2009/10 season he was always among the top six in the slalom ranking , and from 2005/06 to 2007/08 he came third in the slalom ranking three times in a row. Biggs did not take part in the 2009 and 2011 World Championships . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he started in the giant slalom and finished 35th.
After knee problems in the winter of 2011/12, Biggs announced his retirement from ski racing in September 2012.
successes
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010 : 35th giant slalom
World championships
- Bormio 2005 : 9th slalom
- Åre 2007 : 9th slalom
World cup
- 2 placements among the top ten
European Cup
- 2004/05 season : 2nd slalom classification
- 4 wins (all slalom)
Nor-Am Cup
- 2004/05 season : 4th slalom ranking, 9th giant slalom ranking
- 2005/06 season : 3rd slalom classification
- 2006/07 season : 3rd slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
- 2007/08 season : 3rd slalom ranking
- 2008/09 season : 6th slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 6th slalom ranking
- 13 podium places, including 4 wins
More Achievements
- 1 Canadian Championship (Slalom 2005)
- 1 win in the Australian New Zealand Cup
- 1 victory in the South American Cup
- 16 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Site of Patrick Biggs (English)
- Patrick Biggs in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Patrick Biggs in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Patrick Biggs in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Two-time Olympian Biggs retires. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Alpine Canada, September 24, 2012, accessed October 1, 2012.
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| SURNAME | Biggs, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berwick , Australia |