Seth Wescott

Seth Wescott
nation	United States
birthday	June 28, 1976
place of birth	Durham
Career
discipline	Snowboard cross
society	Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × National championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Snowboard cross gold 2010 Vancouver Snowboard cross  Snowboard world championships silver 2003 Kreischberg Snowboard cross gold 2005 Whistler Snowboard cross silver 2007 Arosa Snowboard cross silver 2011 La Molina Snowboard cross National snowboard championships gold 2000 Okemo Snowboard cross
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup November 28, 1999  World Cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 4th ( 2003/04 )  Snowboard cross world cup 2. ( 2008/09 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Snowboard cross 3 4th 3
last change: August 27, 2014

Seth Wescott (born June 28, 1976 in Durham , North Carolina ) is an American snowboarder .

Wescott started skiing at the age of eight and discovered snowboarding two years later. Since 1989 he has focused exclusively on snowboarding. After the world championship title in 2005, he won the gold medal in the first ever Olympic snowboard cross at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . He was able to defend this title four years later at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver .

Only one day later, the Swiss Tanja Frieden , with whom Wescott was dating at that time, also became Olympic champion in snowboard cross.

Web links

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• Seth Wescott in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Seth Wescott in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )