Stefan Guay

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Stefan Guay Alpine skiing
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday March 19, 1986
place of birth Montreal
size 178 cm
Weight 77 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom
society Club de ski Mont-Tremblant
status resigned
End of career 2009
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Bardonecchia 2005 Giant slalom
gold Québec 2006 Giant slalom
bronze Québec 2006 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 16, 2005
 Overall World Cup 132nd ( 2006/07 )
 Super G World Cup 46th (2006/2007)
 

Stefan Guay (born March 19, 1986 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian ski racer and today's trainer. His strongest disciplines were giant slalom , super-G and downhill . Erik Guay's brother became Junior World Champion in giant slalom in 2006 and won four races in the Nor-Am Cup . After a knee injury, he was forced to take a two-year break and eventually retire. Since then he has been working as a trainer.

biography

Guay was born in Montreal and starts for the Mont-Tremblant ski club . He drove his first FIS races in January 2002 , achieved top 10 results from the start and podium places for the first time next winter. From January 2003 Guay also took part in races of the Nor-Am Cup , in 2004 he was accepted into the Canadian national team. After several top 10 results, he reached his first podium in the Nor-Am Cup towards the end of the 2004/05 season when he was third in the Super-G of Le Massif . Three weeks earlier he had won the bronze medal in giant slalom at the Junior World Championships in 2005 in Bardonecchia, Italy . At his third and final Junior World Championship, in 2006 in the province of Québec , Guay was the host country's only medalist with gold in giant slalom and bronze in downhill. In the 2005/06 Nor-Am season he reached three podium places and fourth place in the giant slalom discipline. In addition, he came to his first three appearances in the World Cup in the same year , in which he did not see the goal.

On November 26th, 2006, Guay won his first World Cup points with 25th place in the Super-G of Lake Louise - which were also his only ones. A week and a half later he celebrated his first two victories in the Nor-Am Cup when he again won two runs in Lake Louise. On December 13, 2006, however, the season was over for him. Guay fell during downhill training on the Saslong in Val Gardena and suffered serious injuries in his right knee. He also had to take a break throughout the next winter and was only able to take part in racing again in the 2008/2009 season, but was still impaired by knee problems. After three World Cup races without any points at the beginning of winter, he was used in the Nor-Am Cup until the end of the season, where he achieved a total of six podium places in 2008/09 and won this discipline classification with two super-G victories. Because of the persistent knee problems, Guay underwent a meniscus transplant in the summer of 2009 , after which he did not take part in competitions.

Guay has worked as a coach since the end of his active career. He initially worked for the ski team at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and was accepted into the coaching team of the Downhill / Super-G group of the Canadian Ski Association in 2012.

successes

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 1 place in the top 30

Nor-Am Cup

  • 12 podium places, including 4 wins:
date place country discipline
December 7, 2006 Lake Louise Canada Departure
December 8, 2006 Lake Louise Canada Departure
December 12, 2008 Lake Louise Canada Super G
December 16, 2008 panorama Canada Super G

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stefan Guay appointed Canadian Alpine Ski Team coach. ( Memento of the original from September 10, 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, June 20, 2012, accessed October 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alpinecanada.org
  2. a b Val Gardena: Stefan Guay lost with knee injury. www.skiracing.com, December 14, 2006, accessed October 11, 2012.
  3. a b 2010 Olympic Preview Alpine: Stephan Guay. In: Ski Racing. December 17, 2009, ISSN  0037-6213 , p. 31.